Maya 2011: UI color
How can I, if at all, change UI color in maya 2011.
You know, 2010 and earlier had this grayish light UI, but new one has this dark one which makes my head hurt after using for long time.
At school we switched to 2011 and so I'd like to know if it's possible to change color.
You know, 2010 and earlier had this grayish light UI, but new one has this dark one which makes my head hurt after using for long time.
At school we switched to 2011 and so I'd like to know if it's possible to change color.
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Type this in the MEL script command line and execute it:
window -e -bgc 0.7 0.7 0.7 $gMainWindow
Where 0.7 0.7 0.7 is the RGB value you want (range 0-1).
Since it's just for the main window and not any of the menus/windows, it'll probably be a bit weird. I'll see if there's a way to change it for all windows and menus via script.
As for changing the ui color, ditto what MoP says.
Isn't there a UI customization window where you can change all the colors of every single window/toolbar? Or is that max-only?
And as far as I could find, no there isn't UI color changer like in max.
Maybe I am looking somewhere wrong, and I hope so, otherwise I can't work with the new maya.
After looking through various threads on CGSociety and other places, it seems like the QT framework supports "themes" (as shown here), but apparently this theme support is currently broken in Maya (not sure why).
I hope they will patch in something to support this soon, it would be much nicer to be able to use custom themes.
Oh well, going to use 2010 for now. Hope they fix it.
(For other people who might not entirely get his cryptic post, you need to put the "-style cleanlooks" flag at the end of your Maya shortcut and re-launch the program).
Edit: More info and screenshots of available styles here:
http://www.toxik.sk/?p=56
I might go with Plastique...