Maya integration

The Simplygon installer has an option to automatically install the Simplygon plug-in for all supported versions of Autodesk Maya (2015 - 2020). Please note that Simplygon is not supported on the 32-bit platform. The following sections describe how to install the plug-ins automatically and manually.

Automatic installation

To automatically install the Simplygon plug-in, tick the Install the Simplygon plug-in to detected 64-bit Max/Maya plug-in folders checkbox after launching the Simplygon SDK 8.x installer. Verify that the plug-in has been loaded in Maya by going to the plug-in manager and locate the Simplygon plug-in (Window -> Settings/Preferences -> Plug-in manager).

Manual installation

For manual installation of the Simplygon plug-in, copy the plug-in (.mll), the Simplygon Runtime (.dll) and the config file (.config) located in "Documents/Simplygon/8/UI/Maya/Maya<version>" into the "bin/plug-ins" directory of the Maya installation. This directory defaults to "C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya <version of Maya>/bin/plug-ins". It is also possible to modify the maya environment file to point to a different folder by setting the MAYA_PLUG_IN_PATH variable, usually found in "Documents/maya/<version of Maya>-x64/Maya.env". Verify that the plug-in has been loaded in the Maya plug-in manager (Window -> Settings/Preferences -> Plug-in manager).