AA Shape-Up - A Maya Plug-in Development Tool

A Maya mesh modeling tool with constraint projection. (CIS-660 Authoring Tool Project)

How to Build

Requirement

• Maya (>= 2020, for 2020: https://www.autodesk.com/developer-network/platform-technologies/maya)
• Visual Studio 2019
• Maya Environment (for 2020: http://help.autodesk.com/view/MAYAUL/2020/ENU/?guid=__developer_Maya_SDK_MERGED_Setting_up_your_build_Windows_environment_64_bit_html)
• CUDA (optional, >= 11, with CUDA_PATH system variable)

Something to Check

1. In Maya, input command about -api in MEL. Update Maya if the result is smaller than 20200400.

Build

1. Build project. AAShapeUp_Maya_CPP for CPU-only version. AAShapeUp_Maya_CUDA for CUDA enabled version. AAShapeUp_Viewr_CPP for standalone OpenGL viewer.
2. Copy all the .mel files to the ../scripts/ directory related to your custom Maya plugin directory (plug-ins/).

For Developers

Project Dependencies

1. AAShapeUp_Maya_CPP->AAShapeUp_Extension_NoCUDAExport->AAShapeUp_Core_CPP
2. AAShapeUp_Maya_CUDA->AAShapeUp_Extension_CUDA->AAShapeUp_Core_CPP
3. AAShapeUp_Viewer_CPP->AAShapeUp_Extension_NoCUDAExport->AAShapeUp_Core_CPP

Attention

1. Copy the reference in AAShapeUp_Maya_CUDA project if you create new files in AAShapeUp_Maya_CPP.