The guide is based on What’s New in the Maya Devkit in Maya 2025 with some extra info. The details could be found [here in the document](https://help.autodesk.com/view/MAYADEV/2025/ENU/?guid=2025-Whats-New-in-API). ## Building environment In Maya 2025, the building environment changes on Mac. Operating System Requirements Windows Visual Studio 2022 (17.8.3 or higher) | macOS Xcode version 14.3 or higher | Linux RHEL or Rocky Linux 8.6 or higher, DTS-11 with gcc 11.2.1 | The minimum version of CMake required is 3.27.3. ## Migration ..read more

Recently, a customer asked a question about creating UI for deformers. The deformer nodes in Maya are created with a table for deformer attributes e.g., But for deformer plugins, if you don’t have an AETemplate assigned for it, it looks like this, which is not as easy to understand and has extra, but unnecessary details… The first thought is about reusing the AETemplates in scripts. Unfortunately, it wasn’t created with MEL and you can’t find it inside of scripts/AETemplates. AETemplate ..read more

Maya 2024 is shipped with Python 3.10 only on all platforms. Although pip is shipped with Maya 2024, we still can't use it to install PyQt5 on Mac or Linux. On windows, pip installed packages could work. However, it has its own Qt5 libraries installed and it may lead to problems. You may want to replace them with the ones shipped with Maya. I didn't encounter any problems during my testing with the original pip packages. If you find any ..read more

The guide is based on What’s New in the Maya Devkit in Maya 2024 with some extra info. For more details including commands and scripts changes, please checkout the documentation for more details. Building environments In Maya 2024, we made significent changes on the building environment. The minimum supported version of CMake has been updated to 3.22.1. Platform OS Building Environment Windows - Visual studio 2022, .NET 4.8.1 Linux RHEL 8.6+ DTS-11 + gcc 11.2.1 Mac - Xcode 13.4+, macOS ..read more

We have encountered two simple API changes recently, but they each can cause some confusion. Image Sample issues The first one is the image extension sample in Maya devkit. It is used for creating image extension for adding extra image format support in Maya. It is located in devkit/image folder. It appears above mentioned sample and its document haven't been updated for a while, and there are two small issues inside of it. Imf.lib is renamed to imfbase.lib now and ..read more

Maya 2023 is shipped with Python 3.9 only on all platforms. Although pip is shipped with Maya 2023, we still can’t use it to install PyQt5 on Mac. Unlike Maya 2023 on windows, pip installed packages could work. However, it has its own Qt5 libraries installed. You may want to replace them with the ones shipped with Maya. I didn’t encounter any problems during my testing with the original pip packages. If you find any problems with it, you can ..read more

The guide is based on What’s New in the Maya Devkit in Maya 2023 with some extra info. For more details including commands and scripts changes, please checkout the documentation for more details. Our Maya documentation team is also interested to know how impactful Developer documentation improvements have been over the past few releases. If you have a moment, please take this short survey to help us improve and know what is most important for you. Building environments The building ..read more

How to build and install PyQt5 for Maya 2022 Python 3 ..read more

Maya 2022 API Update guide The guide is based on What's New in the Maya Devkit in Maya 2022 with some extra info. Check the Maya documentation for the most up to date information. Build environment: The build environments have been upgraded. Mac still uses Mojave 10.14.x with Xcode 10.x, and Windows remains Windows 10 with an upgrade to VS2019. Linux has been updated to CentOS/RHEL 7.6 or above and DTS 9.1. Platform OS Compiler Windows Windows 10 x64 Visual ..read more

With the release of Maya 2020, there was a minor change to the IMF library names. It was previously named IMFbase.lib, but it’s been changed to adskIMF.lib. This caused a few problems in producing the DevKit and even in the Maya lib installation folder. For both the Linux and Windows platforms, the IMF library file is missing in the DevKit and Maya installation folder. For Mac OS, the IMF library was included with the Maya installation, but is missing in ..read more