mapy is Available for Linux and Windows.
Welcome to mapy weblog. This weblog is for mapy users to post their opinions about mapy.
You can posts bugs, wishlist and your experience about mapy.
You can download mapy from this direct link. Also leran how to setup mapy with your own script editor.
1st of all, thanks you for creating this useful program. But I am having trouble to set this up to communicate with Notepad++. do you mind give me some direction ? thank you
I’ll add a tutorial about this in few hours. Check out the main site.
thanks for the tutorial on Notepad++, now I get it to work fine. But I notice I need to save the MEL file in order to send command to maya… is there any way I can set it up to run what ever command in the MEL file without saving it? Saving file every time I want to send to maya is kinda annoying ;P
thanks again !
Yes, next version (v1.2.3) will solve your problem.
It will release on January 15.
Thanks for the program!
I tryed to make a mel.properties file for sciTe, It just works! I am now able to script MEL in it. But there is a little trouble I haven’t figured out. The Mapy.exe starts every time the mel script is compilled (I use compile menu to send mel to mapy), after the output is catched from maya, mapy stopped immediatly. So I can not get the regular mel output as in Script Editor. I’m not sure if it’s the problem with firewall cause it stops mapy sometimes.
Another question is the same as Dunk asked. I’m wondering if the new version support send unsaved or selected patten to maya. If it works, Wow…… The script editor can be absolutely replaced!
Thanks again… Nice program!
(If you need, I can send you the mel.properties for syntax highlighting in SciTe.)
HG
Hi, HG. In the next version, I will solve this problem.
Next version (v1.3.1) will be available on January 24.
And yes please send me the file and your full name to me. I’ll publish it in main site with your name.
mailto:mapy.rodmena.com@gmail.com
Thank you for your quick reply, Ashouri.
Your welcome.
This is the best tool for Mel and Python developers. Thank you man for this gift. I’m waiting for next release.
very great job!!!!!!!!!!!!
thanks man!!!!
Thanks Anna, I am very lucky to have such a great users like you. I’ll correct it.
Thanks again.
Hi, Is a linux version planned ?
Thanks.
Yes, but there is problems with linux. For example there are more than 1800 versions of linux with deferent glibc versions. Also automatic text selection have problems in linux. There is working linux version available for redhat ws5 but it is unstable. I’m working to solve it’s bugs and I think it’s beta version will available in late February.
Mapy is nice. What a great idea. really thanks.
Hoping for mac version.
Terrific contribution.
Has anyone integrated mapy with Ipython, which is a wonderful shell / editor for python?
Hi all. mapy for Linux is ready to download. mapy for Linux is full functional version and even faster than windows one.
Here are the links for mapy and install readme file.
http://www.highend3d.com/f/mapy
Best Regards.
I managed to solve the problem…
But i have another one
Is there a plugin or syntax file for Notepad++ to color highlighting MEL scripts???
Cause i can’t find one…
Please send me a link if you know about one!
Thanks
OK. I gave it up with Notepad++, because i think there’s no MEL highlighting for it (but you can still write links if you know about one).
So i’ve installed Ultraedit32…
Ashouri, you linked a text file (maya85_keywords.txt) wich we have to paste into the wordfile.txt. That’s working, but some commands are not highlighted. I’ve recognized that these commands are all in the “MEL Commands” section (i think :)).
For example: the “print” comand:
It is odd for me, that auto-complete window shows it, so UltraEdit recognizes it, but it is not highlighted with the “MEL Commands” color.
Do you have a solution for this?
Thanks
Fantastic - thank-you so much for this wonderful tool. Has anyone been able to get this to work as a tool from eclipse?
Hi Jules. Since mapy is designed to work with most of script editors, You should only find a way in eclipse to run a tool or command and find out what is the variable for parsing the file name. Then you should run this command:
mapy -pn [your port number] [full Path to your script]
example:
mapy -pn 6000 $filename
If you find a way with eclipse, please mail me and let me put it in main site with your credit.
Best Regards.
Hi, Thanks for your great idea.
I tried your tool (mapy 1.4.1), but it didn’t work, here is what I did in command line:
D:\>mapy -pn 6000 d:\test.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “mapy.py”, line 130, in
File “mapy.py”, line 61, in CopyAndGet
KeyboardInterrupt
Thanks.
You should also setup maya. I recommend you use port 2222 and set it up in userSetup.mel
See the website for more info.
Hi. Great Tool so far!
Maybe i’m wrong but is it true that you have to save you file first to pipe it top maya? Why that?
And it is possible to pipe just a selected part of the open document to maya like it is in maya default editor?
It’s a bit annoying that if you want to execute a piece of code you have to copy it into a new document save it and then execute it.
Did i miss something here maybe?
I’m using UE.
You should save the file before you can send it to Maya, but I will fix it in next version.
Thanks anyway for your interest to my software.
Best Regards.
great, thanks for that.
what about a integration with jedit?
I mention it few times that mapy is some type of command line tool, So it can be integrated with any advanced tool. Ask jedit users or developers about how to running an external tool inside jedit.
Just it.
Thanks for a nice tool.
It seems a long python script cannot be submitted via mapy (long mel script is fine). I’m not sure how many characters we can submit at a time as python script, but all my script more than 300 lines did not work.
Do you have any suggestion to solve this problem?
Yes, But I am going to fix it next few days.
Thanks for your consideration.
Awesome script.. but I am having trouble connecting to Maya. I am just trying to get it to run in Consol and I get an error 001 where it can’t connect to maya despite following any of the tutorials. I see that in most tutorials you are setting the 2255 command prompt in Maya, but not specifying to port in the Mapy command. Is this correct? I am going to try restarting my system to see if that helps.
1- Add mapy installation folder to system path.
2- Use this command:
mapy -pn [your port number] [path to your script]
And it should work.
Keep me informed.
Cheers.:)
No love with any of the ports. Have tried a couple different ports. I am going to give it another try at home to see if our custom tools or maybe my work Anti-virus is causing trouble.
I also sent you an e-mail that we can chat back an forth on if you like.
Nice tool. It works well in Win32 with Scite, but I can’t seem to get the selected text only to work. Regardless of the selection, hitting F5 sends the entire script to Maya. Any hints?
Any news about a future update? You mentioned 1.6.6?
Hi everybody. mapy’s development is alive. I am working hard on a very different and complicated version of mapy that is going to be release 2.0.
But minor bugs will be fix in few days. Current version is 1.6.4 and 1.6.5 will be the final 1.x release. 2.x versions are multi-thread and have some useful features. Thanks to every one here and in highend3d and cgtalk that have helped me. Also I am going to open source it as version of 2.5.x.
Best Regards,
Farsheed Ashouri
hi
i’m a beginner, but still a user… and i want to install mapy and have it working, it sounds really GREAT!
but i don’t understand anything at all in teh installation notes…
maybe soem day someone would writte a very very basic tutorial, step-by-step on how to install mapy and have it working… (starting for example on what does “Add your mapy installation folder to path environment” mean, or what to do with your script once everything is setup… i use ultraedit for instance, so… do i click on the mapy button in the ctags toolbar? cause i doesnt work…)
looking forward for a detailed guide, THANKS for all your efforts!
Hi. I made a quick installation guide that shows you how to setup userSetup.mel and environment variables. Check it out.
http://rodmena.com/mapy/installation
Cheers.
wow!
thanks a lot! that was super quick!
well, actually i still had some problems so i’m gonna post what i’ve done to make it work with ultraedit… in case other begginers have a look…
1-install ultraedit
2-install mapy >it didnt work for me untill i installed mapy in a folder without blanck spaces, so instead of c:\program files\… i used c:\programfiles
3-add this route to the path environment, as perfectly explained in the previous video
4-copy your userSetup.mel file to the folder as shown in the video, adding the line indicated in the “Using mapy with UltraEdit” tutorial
5-configure UE as shown in the tutorial as well
6-program something in UE
using the logo works better than the shortcut, dont know why…
i hope it helps someone!
I can’t wait for the new version and I look forward to version 2.0 and 2.5!
What a great news. mapy is going to be open source. I use mac and I really love mapy. I saw one of my friends using mapy in REAL production environment for mel and specially python. I used mapy for linux and it works like a charm. Selected text execution feature is a killer. I can’t wait for mac version. I read in a forum that mapy’s mac version will available on July. is it true?
Thanks you very much and hope for mac version soon.
thx rferl for this amazing plugin it is not as MEL studio pro but it has promising future trust me and keep up with ur work i can’t wait to see version 2, and thx raul for the tip number 2 that was so helpful
Hello,
Mapy is a great tool, however, is there any way to set this up on linux? and what text editor is a good choice?
gedit works great for python, i wonder if it can be set up with mapy?
thx in advance!