Autodesk Maya#

The Anchorpoint plugin for Maya allows you to add a publish process to your workflow. A “publish” is usually a way of communicating that you have finished a certain task and that the asset has to move to the next step in the pipeline. This can be a review process or an export to another format.

Setting up the project#

To use this workflow, you need to enable the “DCC Pipeline Tools” Action under “Workspace Settings / Actions”. Then you need to restart Anchorpoint to load the integrations.

Installing the Anchorpoint plugin for Maya#

To install the Anchorpoint plugin, you have to add the Anchorpoint plugin folder as a path in your Maya environment file (Maya.env).

  1. In Anchorpoint, click on “Workspace Settings / Integrations”

  2. Look for “Maya and click on “Open Plugin”. This will show you the folder that you need to add to Maya.

  3. In your OS explorer, navigate to C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\maya\MAYAVERSION

  4. Open the Maya.env file with a text editor

  5. Add this: MAYA_PLUG_IN_PATH = THEANCHORPOINTPLUGINFOLDER

  6. Restart Maya. In case you are seeing a warning “Untrusted Plugin Location”, just accept it. The plugin won’t modify your Maya file, it will just send data to the Anchorpoint desktop application.