Anything that you can do to have an application fit into the way that you work is worthwhile. Shaun Keenan provides a quick tip for creating a custom tool panel in Maya, so you can have all your frequently used tools at hand while working.
[blockquote source=”Shaun Keenan – CGTuts.com”]In this quick tip Shaun Keenan will walk you through the process of writing a script to create a custom tool window in Maya[/blockquote]Shaun shows how you can easily script a custom tool panel in Maya using the Maya shelf. The general idea is that if you place all the tools and commands that you use most often on a shelf in Maya, you will be able to see the MEL code that creates the shelf as it sits.
Using that MEL code plus a snippet from the Maya documentation that will generate a shelf window, you can easily build a custom tool panel in Maya in a matter of minutes.
Have a look for yourself, check out the tutorial for Scripting a Custom Tool Window in Maya here.
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