Animator John P. Neumann with a Maya QT interface tutorial stepping through the process of how to make a basic qt interface in Autodesk Maya using Nokia’s QT Toolkit. In the tutorial John will create an interface that will do 4 things: Get user input to name an object, List all the user objects, Use a combo box to create an object and Rename an object from the list box.
“Well to continue with the tutorial to test it out, you’ll need a working version of Maya 2011. You can download a trial version from Autodesk’s website if you don’t already have one. You’ll also need the QT toolkit which you’ll need to download from Nokia’s website. Download the LGPL version, unless you really want to distribute your apps in some other way. (I personally love Open Source software, so that’s why I distribute them under a license that is Open Source friendly.) You’re also going to need a text editor of some sort. If you’re using Windows, I would suggest Notepad++ with the Mel language definition file from CreativeCrash.com. If you’re using a Mac I would suggest either Text Wrangler, Carbon Emacs or if you’re familiar with it,Nedit has an .edit preferences file on CreativeCrash for syntax highlighting for mel, so that’s a useful editor. You can also use jEdit and use this Configuring jEdit for Maya tutorial to get yourself up and running.”
