Graph Editor Redux (GER) - Digital Pose Test (DPT): MAC OSX Installation Notes

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Graph Editor Redux (GER)/Digital Pose Test (DPT) MAC OSX Installation Notes

Graph Editor Redux (GER)/Digital Pose Test (DPT)
MAC OSX Installation Notes

(Tested on Autodesk Maya 2014 running on a Macbook Pro 2009/Snow Leopard)

http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/plugin/digital-pose-test-graph-editor-redux-mayastylin

https://vimeo.com/33163670

It has been a while since i began to enjoy the GER free plugin for Maya.
Everyone who has been on it, at least once, would definitely agree about the huge help animators can get through this amounts of tools.Above all if, in a way, you come from traditional animation where the time spent on an X-Sheet would never be considered useless.Keith Lango was the first one to provide an useful tool for quick retiming and testing your pose/timing ratio, when he first introduced the use of Monkeyjam/Monkeyshuffle tool.
If you have been animating for a while you'll recall for sure.
When GER went out with the DPT addon, i was amazed by the given opportunity of having all this and a lot more developed straight into the maya workspace.

When in 2009 i switched to a Mac Osx based machine i felt kinda disappointed about finding it really hard ,being not a tech, to get Ger working. I partly solved the problem installing Windows on a Bootcamp partition and i almost trashed the idea of enjoying these awesome tools when working on the Osx partition.

From time to time i've been back to check for new solutions and hardly i've got one, above all due to the fact that being not an experienced tech the PyQt4 installation part ,for which a compiled version is not available, made me give up more than once. On my last check i've found some useful news which finally lead to a successful installation.

To go ahead in the process you'll need to:

1) Download Xcode ----> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xcode

You'll easily find out that being a developer thing, you'll not be allowed to get it through the Apple Store unless you pay what asked and since it has been updated you'll not be able to get the snow leopard version.
Since I didn't want to subscribe as a developer just to get a maya plugin working i've got it through a Torrent website easy and painless!

Just search for this .dmg file, download and install it ----> (Xcode_4.2_and_ios_5_sdk_for_snow_leopard.dmg)

2) Go to the web and get ----> HOMEBREW

That's a packet manager for OSX that will automatically download and compile on your Mac the PyQt4 libraries necessary to execute the GER in Maya.

Just follow the page instructions or Open your Terminal Prompt and paste this line and hit return: 

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

3) Once Brew is installed in the Terminal Prompt insert the following line and hit return:

brew install PyQt

Through this simple command you'll be able to install all the dependencies qt and sip.
You can have a look at this ----> http://www.noktec.be/python/how-to-install-pyqt4-on-osx in order to understand a little bit more about the process but you don't really need to follow all the steps.They are referred to an older way of getting to the same result.Just go downpage and read the first comment saying it all.

4) It will take some time for brew to download all the necessary to get the installation done,just be sure to be connected since brew will get straight from the net what's required for him to compile the PyQt4.

It happened to me to get a couple of errors during the process but by skipping them i was able to get to the end with no further problems.Once Brew is done you ar done as well.Go get GER 2.6b!!

5) Copy the GER folder into this directory:

/Users/Shared/Autodesk/maya/2014/plug-ins/GER


6) Create a “modules” folder into this directory:

/Users/yourname/Library/Preferences/Autodesk/maya/2014-x64/modules

7) Open the file GER2014_module.mod that is inside your GER folder with a txt editor and paste down the path to the GER directory in your plugins folder...something like the following line

+ GER2014 2.6.0 /Users/Shared/Autodesk/maya/2014/plug-ins/GER


8) Save the file and copy it into the modules folder you created before

9) Open Maya Use Maya’s Plug-in Manager to browse, select and load the “rb_GraphEditorReduxPlugin.py”.


10)Enable Graph Editor Redux copying/typing this command into the command line after switching from Mel to Python Mode

import maya.cmds as cmds

cmds.GER(l=True)

*select the command line and drag it with the middle mouse button to the shelf to get a button to load GER

11) Once loaded, open the Graph Editor and go to the menu View/ToolbarMode and select Redux Mode.

Now you're really DONE!

Digital Pose Test/DPT can be launched directly from Graph Editor Redux.
People that would like to make a separate shelf button to launch it, copy/type this command into the command line after switching from Mel to Python Mode

import rb_DPT as dpt

dpt.open()


To disable Graph Editor Redux (you can always switch to classic mode from the View/Toolbar Menu) copy/type this command into the command line after switching from Mel to Python Mode

cmds.GER(u=True)

*select the command line and drag it with the middle mouse button to the shelf to get a button to un-load GER

GER/DPT

©2007-2015 Ron Bublitz

Author of the notes can be reached at info@manliovetri.com





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