Maya Bonus Tools 6.5 Doesnt work well

[nlcko]

I used Maya Unlimited 6.5. I installed Maya Bonus Tools 6.5 in the right directory and checked all bonus tools' plug-ins. Maya starts with no error messages... but a lot of tools doesn't work like "Edge Path Selection Tool", "Toggle Face Display",... with dis kinda messages :

For example : "Edge Path Selection Tool"
// Error: -onc "optionVar -iv QT_edgePathAutoComponentConvert 1;
//
// Error: Unterminated string. //
// Error: -onc "optionVar -iv QT_edgePathAutoComponentConvert 1; ...

Second Kinda Example : "Toggle Face Display"
// Error: Cannot find procedure "doMenuComponentSelection". //

I don't know whatz wrong
I check lots thing... with the docs but i didn't find a way to solve it.
(I use the userSetup dat comes from BonusTools).

I installed Maya Bonus Tools 6.5 here : /Users/Shared/Alias/maya/6.5
Maya

6.5
Data
Docs
Icons
V Modules
Plug-ins
Scripts
Skeletons

///////////////// MY userSetup.mel > /Users/kurl/Library/Preferences/Alias/maya/6.5/scripts/userSetup.mel //////////

MJPolyTools;
cpsInstallMenu;

////////////////////////////////
// bonusTools userSetup.mel
////////////////////////////////
//
// if you have an existing userSetup.mel file you will need to append
// this code to have all the bonusTools available
// cut and paste the contents of this file into your existing userSetup.mel
// and restart maya to get the full effect

// scriptJob to rebuild menu as working mode changes
scriptJob
-permanent
-event "MenuModeChanged" "bonusToolsMenu";

// build the menu the first time
bonusToolsMenu;

// publish (ctrl+RMB in channelBox)
// aka Quick Connect Attributes
// uncomment the next line if you wish to use this functionality
//publish;

// shift + rmb poly context sensitive marking menu
// the following lines allow you to take
// advantage of it - comment them out or remove them
// if you do not want this functionality
string $btPath = whatIs bonusToolsMenu;
int $numCharacters = size($btPath);
$btPath = endString $btPath ($numCharacters-24);
$numCharacters = size($btPath);
$btPath = substring $btPath 1 ($numCharacters-18);
$btPath = ($btPath + "ModelEdMenu.mel");
eval( "source "" + $btPath + """ );

///////////////////////////////////
// end bonusTools userSetUp.mel
///////////////////////////////////

And i run Maya Unlimited on Mac Os X - G4 (2x1Ghz) - Ati Radeon 9000

[iconoklast]

There should be a directory in your 6.5 directory called bonusTools. From what I see, you extracted the zip directly into the 6.5 directory. Meaning, you extracted all the bonus tools sub folders into the 6.5 directory.

[nlcko]

I extracted the Bonus Tool repts in the 6.5 rept cause if you do it with the Bonus Tools rept, Maya is not able to load it. I already tried it. And making a Bonus Tools txt file in the Modules rept doesn't change anything. Maya for Mac Os X doesn't do it by the same way than maya for windows does.

I notice dat some procedures are not sourced by maya like the doMenuComponent... which comes from maya's Others scripts rept (dagMenuProc.mel). Is it normal?

Can you check it with :
whatIs doMenuNURBComponentSelection

Just for checking if the answer is positve on your cpu

I tried to install Maya Bonus Tools on another CPU to check if my system cfg was the pb. And the pb stills the same. Someone tell me dat Bonus Tools causes some pb. Perhaps wavefront developpers will solve it...

[joojaa]

Wroks fine for me but perhaps thats because i actualy did read the install instructions:

1. Extract the cpntents of the zip file to:

/Users/Shared/Alias/maya/6.5

1. If you have a userSetup.mel file in your scripts path, open it in a text editor and append the lines from the userSetup.mel supplied with the Bonus Tools.

Now this one is OBSCURE even if you dont have a userSetup. mel theese lines MUST be in user setup for maya to be able to load the FILES properly, so if you dont have user setup you need to copy this into your scripts DIR

1. Restart Maya and set any of the Bonus Tools plug-ins that you wish to use to auto load.

Note that the contents of the BonusTools menu will vary according to which main menu set (Animation, Modeling, Dynamics, Rendering, Cloth) is active. You may change this behaviour with the Bonus Tools->Toggle Menu Style command.

1. Enjoy.

[nlcko]

Hummm... you didn't read well what i posted. I was talking about items which are in the Bonus Tools' menu > BT is already installed and the BT's menu appears already at the top of the screen. And about the userSetup, like u can see i have already copy/paste the txt from the BT's userSetup.

I have already try to dezipped the .zip without change anything, i mean move bonus tools and modules in maya/6.5 rept and maya says : "Error: Cannot find procedure "bonusToolsMenu". So you see dat the pb must be out there.

But thx to answer me. i still need help.

[joojaa]

Yeah well im not on mac my tools seem to be working fine. In m experience using maya on mac is like thet sometimes... Screwed, wich has more to do with the fact that theres less people who can help you than anything else.

Are you sure to have loaded all the appropriate plugs in the plugin manager?

But usualy tough problems like this are more on the stupid user side of things. For example your system variables might be screwed somehow.

[nlcko]

Joojaa,

Humm.. no, all plug-ins are loaded (all) and i try on another computer which run on mac os x. The problem is the same.

[nlcko]

Hi everyone,

Does anyone success to install Maya Bonus Tools 6.5 ?
Do all items work?

[joojaa]

Well i havent done any super extencsive t4esting but havent encountered any overcommable problems.

The huds do try to register to a slot thats taken but thats easy to fix.

[nlcko]

Oh if you run BT on Mac Os X without problems could u get a look to see where is installed the bonus tools repertories and how its done. And get a look inside the userSetup... i could copy the way u used to do it.

[nlcko]

I think i know where's the problem.

I was looking for installing Bonus Tools 6.5 correctly following the Wavefront How To but nothing works... so i move the BT's repertories inside /maya/6.5 (from the users/share path) but like you i noticed lots errors like Syntax Error and some Missing Procedures. I sourced theses procedures but for the syntax errors the problems still.

I try to send any messages on several forums but no one know how to solve the problem.

I get the BT for windows and check if there is a difference > no differences. So i looked inside the scripts like "EdgePathTool" and i find what is wrong : Maya doesn't support when a line finishes with "/". "/" is use to use a symbole like " without use it. So when a line finish with "/" the "return" symbole doesn't appear at the end after the "/" and maya think something is missing. So i deleted all "returns" after "/". And the script works correctly. Its amazing windows users don't have this problem.

Its surely a translation caracter problem.

But i don't know why any procedures are not sourced like "doMenuComponentSelection" (you can find it in maya.app/content/script/others)...

It would be fine if some Maya's developpers can answer to these questions. Its a long time Maya Bonus Tools is online.. and we are all waiting for soltutions. Thanks to them to help us.

[joojaa]

Well windows and mac may use different escape mechanisms in their file readining core functions of the sytem so maybe the reason it works on win is because mac default libraries try to interprate it differently than windows.