What are some awesome maya scripts?

StraightDraw84

I haven't used Maya for a couple years and I'm getting back into it. I still have mj poly tools but was wondering what else is out there that I should add...

Thanks!

passerby

There are a lot of scripts and tools, and quite a few of them are made by polycounters including myself.

So what are you trying to accomplish so we can narrow things down a bit.

Deadly Nightshade

Start by replacing that awful native UV editor Link below to a better one.

antweiler

If you do animation, or build an advanced animation pipeline, the incredible Red9 Studio Tools are your friend:
http://vimeo.com/user9491246

StraightDraw84

Ah thanks guys, yeah my goal is modeling uving, no animation though

StraightDraw84

Anyone else have something cool to add?

Tzur_H

Nightshade UV, Nightshade Blockout, FroXnormal (if you bake in xnormal), Get Bent, making yourself a custom marking menu with modeling tools that you use often or setting up hotkeys for them - don't know any other good ones for modeling, but then again, I swapped to Modo for the modeling process :]

edit; gmh hair 2.6 is another awesome tool

2bytes

MmtoKey is great...maps context sensitive marking menues to a single hotkey.  Very powerful.

Creative case is making python scripts lik3 Shell Mod for modeling panels.

And Hard Mesh is released...kinda like Mesh Fusion for maya

Deadly Nightshade

Advanced Renamer, by Rod Green. - Batch/Pattern rename tool.
Duplicate Along Path - Unfortunatly does not work in Maya 2016 but if you are on an older version, get this script.
fRay Boolean Master - Better boolean operations
froRetopo3 - Retopology tool
rockGen v1.0 - Rock generator. It's mediocre, but the best free one available. It's decent for creating base meshes.
vertexNoise v1.0 - Vertex randomizer. Nice to have for organic stuff.
xyShrinkWrap v0.1, by Imre Tuske - Shrinkwraps a mesh onto another mesh (such as a detailed plane onto a curved surface).

StraightDraw84

Thanks a lot!  If anyone has more please let me know, I'd be cool to have a script like the symmetry modifier in 3ds max...

FourtyNights

I'm not a Maya user, but I think you should work with the default Maya tools first, and then install useful scripts whenever you actually need something to ease, speed up or automate certain processes in the pipeline.

peanut™

http://www.creativecrash.com/

i go to the script section daily. Read it like it's the news