How to change default Maya path?

[Deleted User]

Hi guys, I installed Maya 2011 to play around with Valve plugins. But now Unity is using it as the default Maya to do it's tasks in.

I'd like to restore it to 2014. Any advice on how to do this? Thanks!

Farfarer

What does Windows open if you double click a maya file? I think Unity uses whatever the default program for the file format is...

[Deleted User]

It opens in 2011 it looks like

Farfarer

Should be able to right click > Open with > Choose default program... > Select Maya 2014 exe and make sure you tick "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file".

[Deleted User]

Hi, I've tried this already but it just directs to Maya 2011.

54Strat

Hi,

Don't know much about Unity yet, but maybe it's using environment variables, such as 'MAYA_LOCATION' to work out where Maya is?

Or maybe one of the reg keys, MAYA_INSTALL_LOCATION?

m4dcow

Run regedit.exe, and look in HKEY_CLASS_ROOT\ for MayaAsciiFile & MayaBinaryFile and change the path in shell/open/command.

That should do the trick but you may have to restart windows for changes to happen.

Dr4age

Thanks m4dcow, worked perfect for those that when choosing the default maya program it wont update. didn't even have to restart.