Install AL_omx In Maya

Install With Pip and mayapy

AL_omx is available in PyPi, that means you can easily install in Maya using pip install. mayapy is an executable to bootstrap the process to start Maya’s bundled Python interpreter, it is available on each distribution of Maya.

To install AL_omx with pip, you first need to ensure pip is already installed for your mayapy, try running the script below in the console:

/path/to/mayapy -m pip --version

If this prints out the version correctly, means pip has already been installed and is available. Otherwise, refer to this for how to install pip within mayapy, keep in mind that instead of calling python, you need to call /actual/path/to/mayapy instead.

Now to install AL_omx with pip in Windows, you just do:

mayapy -m pip install AL_omx

In Linux and macOS:

sudo ./mayapy -m pip install AL_omx

To uninstall, do this in Windows:

mayapy -m pip uninstall AL_omx

In Linux and macOS:

sudo ./mayapy -m pip uninstall AL_omx

Note

You will need to have administrator privilege to install/uninstall pip and AL_omx in this way.

Install Manually by PYTHONPATH

Alternatively, you can download AL_omx from PyPi or from Github, extract files to wherever you want, and add the root directory that contains AL to your PYTHONPATH. This can be done by adding the directory to PYTHONPATH global environment variable setting in your OS, or by python script.

At the moment, AL_omx does not contain external pip dependency, so directly using it by adding it to PYTHONPATH is feasible. The upside is you don’t need administrator privileges to install this way.

Verify the Installation

After the installation, you can lunch the relevant version of Maya and start using AL_omx. Try this in Maya’s script editor to see if things are installed correctly:

from AL import omx

For the first run, Maya will pop up dialog, confirming that if you want to load the AL_OMXCommand.py plugin. You need to allow it for the undo/redo works for edits made by AL_omx. Then if you exit Maya normally, the next time you do from AL import omx it won’t ask you again.

Supported Environment

Python	Maya
3.7+	2022+

AL_omx might still work in earlier Maya version, but Maya 2022 and later versions are the ones that we heavily tested upon.