Autodesk® Maya® provides a rich and powerful API that can be used to automate repetitive tasks, and to extend the core functionality of Maya. This functionality includes customization of 3D modeling, animation, visual effects, rendering, and many other areas. C++, Python, and .NET are supported. The Software Development Kit (SDK) provides extensive functionality and provides code samples and documentation to help get you started developing with the Maya API.
The current release fo the devkit is the version released at the time of the Maya 2016 Service Pack 1. It contains some new API added for Core Profile which doesn’t break the Maya API compatibility, and additional VP2 and Core Profile examples.
Maya 2016+
The Boost compressed files for Alembic is not posted on this repo due to its size being over the GitHub limit of 100Mb. However you can download Boost 1.55.0 from here.
The boost.zip file was located in devkit/Alembic/include/AlembicPrivate
You can use any devkit version for writing plug-in for any version of Maya of the same Major release, i.e. any 2016 devkit version for any Maya 2016 release. However, if you are using an older devkit release than the Maya version you are targeting, make sure to not use any new introduced API which does not exist in older Maya release. Otherwise, the plug-in will not work.
You can still get the devkit released at the time Maya 2016 was release here
- Boost for Alembic The Boost compressed files for Alembic is not posted on this repo due to its size being over the GitHub limit of 100Mb. However you can download Boost 1.55.0 from here. The boost.zip file was located in devkit/Alembic/include/AlembicPrivate
Older Devkit versions were released with the Maya distributions.
This devkits are licensed under the terms of the [AUTODESK LICENSE AND SERVICES AGREEMENT](Autodesk EULA.pdf).
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