Maya Plug-in Wizard For Visual Studio
Maya provides a wizard for Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 which can be used to quickly
and easily create Visual Studio projects for Maya plug-ins. The wizard is not installed
automatically by the Maya installer so you must copy some files by hand before you
can start using it.
Follow these steps to install the wizard
- The wizard can be found in the
devkit\pluginwizard\MayaPluginWizard2.0.zip folder of your Developer Kit installation (see
Setting up your build environment: Windows environment (64-bit)). Unzip this file.
- Copy the following files to the
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\vcprojects folder:
MayaPluginWizard.vsdir
MayaPluginWizard.vsz
MayaPluginWizard.ico
- Notice that the unzipped file contains a top-level folder named
MayaPluginWizard and within that a sub-folder which is also named
MayaPluginWizard. Copy the top-level
MayaPluginWizard folder to
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\VCWizards
NOTE:
If you are working with a non-english installation of Microsoft Visual Studio, then
you may have to alter the folders that the files are copied into above.
Follow these steps to use the wizard
- Start Microsoft Visual Studio, invoke File -> New -> Project -> Visual C++ Projects
and select MayaPluginWizard.
- Enter a name and solution name and select the OK button.
- Fill in the information for the Plug-in setup screen.
- Click Next to get the Plug-in type dialog, or select it from the link in the sidebar,
and fill in any required information.
- Click Next to get the Included libraries dialog, or select it from the link in the
sidebar, and fill in any required information.
- Click Finish to create the project.