Installation

MayaShaderLibrary tested on Maya 2017, 2018, and 2019

Download

  • Download/clone MayaShaderLibrary repository from gitHub.
  • If you are not familiar with gitHub, download this zip file
  • Copy/Paste or Unzip the contents into your preferred scripts location, or your maya scripts folder.

Maya Install

  • Add the following environment variable to your Maya.env (this folder is where your shaders and preview files are stored).
::
MAYA_SHADER_LIBRARY = your_install_directorylibrary

Note

Maya.env is usually located under User/My Documents/Maya/2018)

Running the script

Create a shelf button with the following python code:

import msl.shader_library as maya_shader_library
maya_shader_library.load()