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Adah
Adah

Reputation: 113

MAYA Standalone application and plugins

How can i load a maya plugin in a maya standalone application. I tried to load it using

MGlobal::executeCommand("`loadPlugin \"C:/XXXXX/XXXX.mll\" `");

but each time i get 

(kFailure) : unexpected internal failure

How can i do it properly ?

thanks,

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1400

Answers (2)

TheBeardyMan
TheBeardyMan

Reputation: 829

The string that you're passing to MGlobal::executeCommand has backquotes around the command. That MGlobal::executeCommand call is running your loadPlugin command and then trying to run the return value of your loadPlugin command as another command.

It may be the case that your plugin loaded successfully, and the MStatus::kFailure that you see is the result of trying to run your loadPlugin command's return value.

Try removing the backquotes to see if that fixes the problem:

MGlobal::executeCommand("loadPlugin \"C:/XXXXX/XXXX.mll\"");

Upvotes: 0

theodox
theodox

Reputation: 12218

Have you already called 

import maya.standalone
maya.standalone.initialize()

? If not you don't actually have running maya instance to work in.

You can also load the plugin with maya.cmds

import maya.cmds as cmds
cmds.loadPlugin("pluginname.mll")

Upvotes: 1

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