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Hi guys, just wondering if there is anyone knowledgeable in MEL who would know how to make the maxwell fropdown menu available all the time, not just in rendering mode, its no biggie, just like it always to be there, save me a button push hehe.

Cheers

Brett

You can create a Maxwell Shelf

yes I absolutely can, but mjpolytools menu is everywhere, thought it might be easy to change

Brett

OK been having a play (with the scripts that is and a couple of things have been doing something, mayallStartup.mel

if I add "-p MayaWindow" to lines 134 and lines 180

menu -defineTemplate M2MxTemplate -allowOptionBoxes -p true -p MayaWindow -tearOff true;

and

$gRenderingMenus[$menuSize] = `menu -label "Maxwell" -p MayaWindow -tearOff true -allowOptionBoxes true Maxwell`;

respectively, then the menu appears in the other maya modes, but disapperas when I change to say modelling mode to animation mode, shall do some more investigating, hope this is allright with the author by the way, please say so

Regards

Brett

Keep investigating Brett

ps - how can i make a shelf with maxwell options?

Do a new shelf (Window-Settings/Preferences/Shelves.... New Shelf)
Then open maxwell menu and Shift+Ctrl+Alt+LMB (left mouse button) on the commands you want to add to the shelf.

Cheers, never new that

maybe someone could make up some snazzy xpm icons

aia worked it out, the menu thing, with a buddy who's much better at MEL than me, just have to document the few changes I made

regards

Brett

OK the changes I made actually made the menu visible in all modes, but it wouldnt initialise the plugin heh, anyone else interested in this?

Brett

Brett, can you post the mel for that?