Maya - Editing Default Polygon Marking Menu

HomeGrownHeroz · Oct 2016

Hi,

I have been heavily customising Maya over the last year or so and now I wanted to tweak the default Polygon Marking menu (Shift Right Click). Basically even though its already there at the bottom of the menu, I want to add the Quad Draw tool above the Multicut tool in the marking menu. I have managed to add the tool to the menu, but I am missing the icon and options box. I am also getting the error at line 128: Flags must come before objects: -menu.

So my questions are,

How do I put the tool in the correct place? (above the multicut tool?
How do I combine the correct code to include the icon and the options box?
What is this error and how can it be resolved/avoided?

Thanks alot,

I'm a noobie at coding anything, but I have slowly been learning

I've attached the current MEL script.

Sam

throttlekitty · Oct 2016

I didn't test your file, but it looks like you forgot a semicolon after your entry for the quad draw options block. The error is basically that you've entered in a long/invalid command, so to Maya, it reads as "-enable $mtkEnable setParent -menu ..;"

Instead of:

-enable $mtkEnable

;
setParent -menu ..;

For the icon, insert this into the entry for the main tool just before the MTKQuadDrawToolMM; line.
-image "quadDraw_NEX32.png"

frame_first · Oct 2016

Hey man, i`m going to translate my "lesson" of how to customize your default marking menu in maya ( my ver. is 2016 ) at the next week. It`s already written. Just needs in translating from Russian. And upload it here was my plan