Maya Thumbnails for Windows?

killingpeople · Jan 2010

Is there a file option or Maya utility to display Maya scene files (.mb) as thumbnail previews within Windows Explorer? (Using Maya 2009)

Thanks xoxo

Lamont · Jan 2010

Like you want to see a little preview of the scene?

danshewan · Jan 2010

I remember someone wrote a MEL script for this ages ago over at CGTalk, but it was for Maya 5 or 6 I think.

edit: I think it was this, but haven't tried it our personally.

http://www.safakoner.com/rnd/sobrowser/sobrowser.html

Lamont · Jan 2010

danshewan wrote: »

http://www.safakoner.com/rnd/sobrowser/sobrowser.html

Doesn't that kick a little ass!

killingpeople · Jan 2010

Dude, I don't wanna sound like a queer or nothin', but I think this link has a hot ass...
Thanks, I'll check it out at home

sama.van · Jan 2010

Becareful he attached something on the Ctrl +s command...

After　closing Maya and start again I got the following message when using ctrl+s for saving my scene :

// Error: line 1: Cannot find procedure "soBrowserSaveMayaScene".

Then be careful if you are not melscripter

And with this script I success to brose my directory but the preview mode doesn't appear

I personally had an auto-back command attached to this hotkey... then byebye

haha

Funky Bunnies · Jan 2010

looks sweet!

looks like it's a browser, so you'd have to save it with this script as sama.van is saying, then it'll register with a thumbnail which it exports using a playblast type thing or something.

So it just tries to overwrite your save function with its own is all.

pior · Jan 2010

Fail, why are mel scripters so sneaky. These tools could be so awesome but they end up feeling like duct tape...

Maya Thumbnails for Windows?

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