Plugin/Script Porting

[cynamonster]

Howdy,

Some time in the next 2 weeks, I'll become the proud owner of Maya 4.5 for linux, and a
tasty new SMP workstation.

I've noticed that that list of plugins and scripts available for, and compatable with, linux
is dispropotionately short compared to the list of available plugins and scripts for the
Windows version.

I have quite a bit of programming experience (none with the maya api), in; C, C++, PHP,
and more recently Perl. I have looked at the maya api documentation, and found it to be
a well documented and clean api that shouldn't take alot of time getting to grips with.

Getting to the point; I'd like to offer my help, free of charge, in porting (and/or testing) Maya
plugins and scripts to Linux so they are available to myself, and other Maya for Linux users to
use.

Posting this in the Linux forum obviously won't get this done, but I'd like to hear what other
Linux users think, and perhaps hear from other people about their experiences with maya
plugin porting, and issues they may have encountered. I'd also be interested to hear some
feedback about the best way to go about approaching the owners of plugins to offer to port
their software (either commercial or private).

Regards,
- Gef

[1000101-]

Sounds delightful; see about getting with gmask on this board and maybe putting a post in the buzz section; where just about everyone checks.

[deke-kincaid]

Most of the scripts are cross platfrom and will work in linux just fine. It just happends that the people that wrote the scripts are using window and they just post it as only running on that because they don't have another os to test it on.

As for the plugins, that would be really helpfull. Only trouble is that many people use windows specific code, yuk!

[gmask]

I think many of the windows Maya plugin develoeprs would gladly allow you to port their plugins to Linux. If or one would liek to see more of them avaaible for Linux as I am plannignon setting up a linux system and switching over to using Maya on it. The lack of plugins is a minor but and issue none the less preventing me from goign headlong into the switch.