The Rigging Dojo with the low-down on creating custom shelves, and shelf buttons in Maya by showing how to create a simple script and customize it into a shelf button to allow for variations of the script without having to recall the MEL arguments and procedure every time.
This is a great way to set up your own workflow in Maya, some have shelves and buttons that they use consistently, or specific to one project… definitely valuable in rigging.
…rigTip for Maya on creating a simple script and then customizing the Maya shelf buttons to allow for variations of the script without having to remember the MEL procedure arguments and type them by hand each time…
Rigging Dojo also shows how you can add some other things to the button script such as popup menus, which can really help streamline the process of developing useful tools and also saving on space in the Maya shelf by having multiple options associated with a single button.
#rigTip Custom Shelf Buttons 101 from Rigging Dojo on Vimeo.
