Shave And A Haircut Installation

Linux
- Before Installation
- Installing Shave And A Haircut
- Installing Mental Ray Standalone Support
- Loading The Plugin
- Uninstalling Shave And A Haircut
- Remote Installation
- Relocating Files
OSX
- Before Installation
- Installing Shave And A Haircut
- Installing Mental Ray Standalone Support
- Loading The Plugin
- Uninstalling Shave And A Haircut
- Remote Installation
- Relocating Files
Windows
- Before Installation
- Installing Shave And A Haircut
- Installing Mental Ray Standalone Support
- Installing RenderMan Shaders
- Loading The Plugin
- Uninstalling Shave And A Haircut
- Remote Installation
- Relocating Files
Maya Environment Variables

Installing Shave And A Haircut On Linux

Before Installation

Shave And A Haircut for Linux comes in a RedHat Package Manager (RPM) file, with a name ending in .rpm. E.g:

shaveHaircut_Maya8_0-4.4-12.i686.rpm
shaveHaircut_Maya8_0_64-4.4-12.x86_64.rpm

The first is the version for 32-bit Maya, the second is the version for 64-bit Maya.

Make sure that the Maya version given in the filename matches the version of Maya for which you are installing Shave And A Haircut (e.g. '8_0' for 32-bit Maya 8.0, or '8_0_64' for 64-bit Maya 8.0). For the remainder of this document we will assume that you are installing Shave And A Haircut for 32-bit Maya 8.0. If not, please remember to adjust the version numbers in any filenames or commands presented here to match your version of Maya.

If any users on the system are currently running Maya, have them exit until the installation is complete.

Installing Shave And A Haircut

To install Shave And A Haircut, use the rpm command as follows:

rpm -U shaveHaircut_Maya8_0-4.4-12.i686.rpm

Installing Mental Ray Standalone Support

Maya allows scenes to be exported as .mi files which can then be rendered using a standalone Mental Ray renderer.

To have Shave And A Haircut support this workflow, copy the following file to the lib subdirectory of your standalone Mental Ray installation:

/usr/aw/maya8.0/mentalray/lib/shaveMRShader.so

and copy the following file to the include subdirectory of your standalone Mental Ray installation:

/usr/aw/maya8.0/mentalray/include/shaveMRShader.mi

Loading The Plugin

To use Shave And A Haircut from within Maya, bring up Maya's Plug-in Manager, which can be found on the Maya menubar under Window : Settings/Preferences : Plug-in Manager.

The Plug-in Manager will display its plugins in several sections. Shave And A Haircut will have its own section, bearing a name something like this:

/usr/aw/maya/8.0/modules/JoeAlter/plug-ins/

Beneath that heading you should see an entry for the shaveNode.so file with two checkboxes to the right of it, marked loaded and auto load.

To load Shave And A Haircut, check the loaded box. To have Shave And A Haircut automatically load whenever you start up Maya, also check the auto load box.

Uninstalling Shave And A Haircut

To uninstall Shave And A Haircut, make yourself the superuser and use the rpm command as follows:

rpm -e shaveHaircut_Maya8_0

Note that if, during installation, you copied files by hand as described in Installing Mental Ray Standalone Support, then you will have to remove those files by hand.

Remote Installation

The rpm tool used to install Shave And A Haircut is a command line tool with no user interaction required. As such it is well suited to remote and unattended installation. Simply copy Shave And A Haircut's .rpm file to the remote system, or to a network drive visible to the remote system, then use the rsh command to run rpm on the remote system.

Relocating Files

For most users the standard locations used by Shave for its components will be sufficient. However, some users with special needs may need to relocate some or all of Shave's components to different locations on their computer's disks, or on a network.

This section lists the various categories of files included in the Shave And A Haircut installation, their default locations, and how to go about relocating them to different directories.

Base Plugin And Scripts (required)

On Linux Shave And A Haircut is shipped as a Maya module. This means that there is a module definition file which points to a special directory tree containing most of the files required by Shave And A Haircut. Unfortunately, Maya does not yet support the modularization of runtime libraries, presets, Mental Ray for Maya shaders or shader icons, so those elements of the plugin must be dealt with separately.

The module definition file for Shave And A Haircut is named shaveHaircut.mod and is located in Maya's module directory. For example:

/usr/aw/maya/modules/8.0/shaveHaircut.mod

By default, the module file will point to the JoeAlter/shaveHaircut tree within that same module directory:

/usr/aw/maya/8.0/modules/JoeAlter/shaveHaircut

Beneath that directory lie four subdirectories, containing the base plug-ins, scripts, icons and Shave API sample files:

/usr/aw/maya/8.0/modules/JoeAlter/shaveHaircut/plug-ins
/usr/aw/maya/8.0/modules/JoeAlter/shaveHaircut/scripts
/usr/aw/maya/8.0/modules/JoeAlter/shaveHaircut/icons
/usr/aw/maya/8.0/modules/JoeAlter/shaveHaircut/samples

All except the sample files are required for the proper operation of Shave And A Haircut.

The easiest way to relocate these files is to move the entire sub-tree, as a unit, and modify the path in the shaveHaircut.mod file to point to the new location.

The shaveHaircut.mod file itself may be relocated to any directory in the user's MAYA_MODULE_PATH.

Alternatively, the files in the plug-ins subdirectory may be moved to any directory which is in the user's MAYA_PLUG_IN_PATH, the files in the scripts subdirectory to any directory in the user's MAYA_SCRIPT_PATH, and the files in the icons subdirectory to any directory in the user'sXBMLANGPATH. The files in the samples subdirectory can go wherever you like.

Base Runtime Library (required)

Shave And A Haircut installs a library named libShave.so to which it must have access at runtime. By default this file is placed in Maya's lib directory along with Maya's own runtime libraries. E.g:

/usr/aw/maya8.0/lib/libShave.so

You may relocate this library to any directory in the user's LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Icons (recommended)

Some versions of Maya do not allow render node and button icons to be stored within the module tree, so Shave And A Haircut installs them into Maya's own icons directory. E.g:

/usr/aw/maya8.0/icons

Icon files whose names begin with either shave or render_shave are part of the Shave And A Haircut plugin.

If these files are not present Maya will print warnings and buttons on the Shave shelf will be displayed with a blank icon, as will any Shave-specific buttons on the Hypershade and Create Render Node windows. Other than that, both Shave And A Haircut and Maya will still function properly.

In Maya 6.5 these files must remain in Maya's own icons directory. In Maya 7.0 and later they can be relocated to any directory in the user's XBMLANGPATH.

Presets (recommended)

Shave And A Haircut includes a number of preset files which can be used to quickly create hair with certain predefined looks, such as blond, grass, scruffy, etc. Each preset consists of a MEL script file and an XPM image file containing a sample swatch.

These presets are intended to be available to all users on the system and are normally stored with the rest of Maya's system-wide presets in a directory relative to Maya's installation directory. So for Maya 8.0 the default location of the script file for Shave's grass preset would be:

/usr/aw/maya8.0/presets/attrPresets/shaveHair/grass.mel

Shave And A Haircut can be made to look for its preset files in a different directory by defining either the SHAVE_COMMON_PRESET_PATH environment variable or the SHAVE_LOCATION environment variable.

If SHAVE_COMMON_PRESET_PATH is defined then Shave will search for its preset files in that directory. For example, if your Maya.env file contained the following definition:

SHAVE_COMMON_PRESET_PATH=/usr/local/myMaya

then Shave And A Haircut would look for the grass preset in:

/usr/local/myMaya/grass.mel

If the directory does not exist or is empty, Shave And A Haircut will look no further and will assume that presets are unavailable.

If SHAVE_COMMON_PRESET_PATH is not defined, but SHAVE_LOCATION is, then Shave will treat it as the top of a directory tree having the same structure as MAYA_LOCATION and try to locate its preset files relative to that. For example, if your Maya.env file contained the following definition:

SHAVE_LOCATION=/usr/local/myMaya

then Shave And A Haircut would look for the grass preset in:

/usr/local/myMaya/presets/attrPresets/shaveHair/grass.mel

If the directory does not exist or is empty, Shave will go on to search the normal MAYA_LOCATION directory tree.

Mental Ray Shaders (optional)

Shave And A Haircut's support for Mental Ray for Maya involves three files: a shader definition file called shaveMRShader.mi, a shader library file called shaveMRShader.so, and the Mental Ray for Maya startup file which is called maya.rayrc. These files are installed within the mentalrayhierarchy beneath Maya's own installation directory. For Maya 8.0, the files would be located as follows:

/usr/aw/maya8.0/mentalray/include/shaveMRShader.mi
/usr/aw/maya8.0/mentalray/lib/shaveMRShader.so
/usr/aw/maya8.0/mentalray/maya.rayrc

The first two files are installed by Shave And A Haircut. The third is installed by Maya and modified by the Shave And A Haircut installer. They are only required if you wish to use Mental Ray for Maya to render scenes containing hair generated by Shave And A Haircut.

The locations of these files are mandated by Maya and, to the best of our knowledge, they cannot be relocated elsewhere except by moving all of Maya.

Shave And A Haircut also installs icons for its Mental Ray shaders into Maya's own icons directory. E.g:

/usr/aw/maya8.0/icons/render_shaveMRHairComp.xpm
/usr/aw/maya8.0/icons/render_shaveMRHairGeom.xpm
/usr/aw/maya8.0/icons/render_shaveMRHairGeomDRA.xpm
/usr/aw/maya8.0/icons/render_shaveMRHairIllum.xpm
/usr/aw/maya8.0/icons/render_shaveMRHairShadows.xpm
/usr/aw/maya8.0/icons/render_shaveMRRenderComp.xpm
/usr/aw/maya8.0/icons/render_shaveMRVertexIllum.xpm

If these files are not present, the corresponding shaders will be displayed with blank icons in the Hypershade and Create Render Node windows. Also, the first time one of those windows is opened, Maya will display warning messages for each missing icon. Other than that, both Shave And A Haircut and Maya will function properly whether or not the files are present.

In Maya 6.5 these files must remain in Maya's own icons directory. In Maya 7.0 and later they can be relocated to any directory in the user's XBMLANGPATH.

RenderMan Shaders (optional)

Shave has a single RenderMan shader called Shave.slo which is installed into the plug-ins/prman/lib/shaders directory in the Shave installation tree. For example:

/usr/aw/maya/8.0/modules/JoeAlter/shaveHaircut/plug-ins/prman/lib/shaders/Shave.slo

By default Shave looks for this shader relative to the location of its plugin file, shaveNode.so, which normally sits in the plug-ins directory of the path given above. So if you move shaveNode.so to a different directory then you should move the prman directory there as well.

Alternatively, you can move the Shave.slo file itself into the lib/shaders subdirectory of any directory in the user's RMSTREE.

Shave API Plugins (optional)

Third-party plugins developed using the Shave And A Haircut API will require the presence of the libShaveAPI.so runtime library, which by default can be found in Maya's own lib directory. E.g:

/usr/aw/maya8.0/lib/libShaveAPI.so

If you are using third-party plugins built with the Shave And A Haircut API and need to relocate this file, the directory to which you relocate it must be in the user's LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Note that Shave And A Haircut does not itself use this file.

Shave API Development (optional)

Developers wishing to create their own plugins which use the Shave And A Haircut API will need access to the libShaveAPI.so runtime library described in the previous section, as well as its associated header file, shaveAPI.h. By default this header file is located within Maya's own includedirectory. E.g:

/usr/aw/maya8.0/include/maya/shaveAPI.h

Shave And A Haircut does not itself use this header file, so you may freely relocate it to any directory.

Installing Shave And A Haircut On OSX

Before Installation

Shave And A Haircut for OSX comes as a zipped OSX Package Manager bundle, with a name ending in .pkg.zip. E.g:

shaveHaircut_Maya8_0.pkg.zip

Make sure that the Maya version given in the filename (e.g. '8_0') matches the version of Maya for which you are installing Shave And A Haircut (e.g. '8.0). For the remainder of this document we will assume that you are installing Shave And A Haircut for Maya 8.0. If not, please remember to adjust the Maya version numbers in any filenames or commands presented here to match your version of Maya.

If any users on the system are currently running Maya, have them exit until the installation is complete.

If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Shave And A Haircut, just follow the same instructions as if you were installing for the first time.

Installing Shave And A Haircut

If you downloaded Shave And A Haircut using your web browser, depending upon its configuration it may have automatically expanded the .zip file into a .pkg file. If not, then try double-clicking on the .zip file to see if that will expand it. If that doesn't work either, then open up a Terminal window, use the cd command to change to whatever directory you downloaded the .zip file to, then use the unzip command to expand it. For example, if you downloaded the .zip file to your desktop, then you would do something like this:

cd Desktop
unzip shaveHaircut_Maya8_0.pkg.zip

However you get there, you should eventually end up with a file ending in .pkg. Unlike the .zip file, this file will also contain the version of Shave in its name (e.g. shaveHaircut_Maya8_0-4.4v12.pkg). Again, depending upon your settings, your browser may automatically launch the OSX installer. If not, then double-click on the file to launch the installer.

The Installer will first ask you for your passphrase, or that of System Administrator. After supplying that, you will be presented with the Welcome screen. Click on the Continue button.

The next window will prompt you to select on which disk to put the plugin. Click on the same disk as contains your Maya software, then click on the Continue button.

The next window will have a button labelled either Install or Upgrade. Click on that button. OSX will then install Shave And A Haircut. When it is done, click on the Close button.

Installing Mental Ray Standalone Support

Maya allows scenes to be exported as .mi files which can then be rendered using a standalone Mental Ray renderer.

To have Shave And A Haircut support this workflow, you must copy the following file to the lib subdirectory of your standalone Mental Ray installation:

/Applications/Alias/maya8.0/Maya.app/Contents/mentalray/lib/shaveMRShader.so

Also copy the following file to the include subdirectory of your standalone Mental Ray installation:

/Applications/Alias/maya8.0/Maya.app/Contents/mentalray/include/shaveMRShader.mi

Loading The Plugin

To use Shave And A Haircut from within Maya, bring up Maya's Plug-in Manager, which can be found on the Maya menubar under Window : Settings/Preferences : Plug-in Manager.

The Plug-in Manager will display its plugins in several sections. Shave And A Haircut will be in a section bearing a name something like this:

/Users/Shared/Alias/maya/8.0/plug-ins

Beneath that heading you should see an entry for the shaveNode.lib file with two checkboxes to the right of it, marked loaded and auto load.

To load Shave And A Haircut, check the loaded box. To have Shave And A Haircut automatically load whenever you start up Maya, also check the auto load box.

Uninstalling Shave And A Haircut

Unfortunately, OSX's Installer does not support uninstalling packages, so you must remove the files by hand. See the section on Relocating Files for a list of the files installed by Shave And A Haircut.

Note that if, during installation, you copied files by hand as described in Installing Mental Ray Standalone Support, then you will have to remove those files as well.

Remote Installation

If you downloaded Shave And A Haircut as a zip file, you will first have to unzip it to get the package contained inside.

The Installer command can then be used to do command line installations of the package without invoking a graphical user interface. As such it is well suited for use in remote and unattended installations. Note that you must have root privileges to use this command.

The -pkg flag is used to specify the location of the of the package to be installed and the -target flag is used to specify the disk volume where Maya is installed, usually just the system root ('/'). For example:

/usr/sbin/Installer -pkg shaveHaircut_Maya8_0-4.4v12.pkg -target /

Relocating Files

This section lists the various categories of files included in the Shave And A Haircut installation, their default locations, and how to go about relocating them to different directories.

Base Plugin (required)

The following plugin files are installed into /Users/Shared/Alias/maya/8.0/plug-ins:

shaveNode.bundle # Maya 8.0 and later
libShave.dylib

For Maya 6.5 and 7.0 instead of shaveNode.bundle there is shaveNode.lib.

These files are required for the proper operation of Shave And A Haircut. You may relocate them to any directory in the user's MAYA_PLUG_IN_PATH. However, note that the two files must be kept together in the same directory.

Base Scripts (required)

Shave's MEL scripts are installed into /Users/Shared/Alias/maya/8.0/scripts. This is a shared directory which may contain scripts from other plugins as well. Those whose filenames begin with either shave or AEshave are part of Shave And A Haircut and are required for its proper operation. You may relocate them to any directory in the user's MAYA_SCRIPT_PATH.

Icons (recommended)

Shave's icon files are installed into /Users/Shared/Alias/maya/8.0/icons. This is a shared directory which may contain icons from other plugins as well. Those whose filenames begin with either shave or render_shave are part of Shave And A Haircut.

The icon files may be relocated to any directory in the user's XBMLANGPATH.

Presets (recommended)

These presets are intended to be available to all users on the system and are normally stored with the rest of Maya's system-wide presets in the Contents hierarchy of Maya's installation directory. So for Maya 8.0 the default location of the script file for Shave's grass preset would be:

/Applications/Alias/maya8.0/Maya.app/Contents/presets/attrPresets/shaveHair/grass.mel

Shave And A Haircut can be made to look for its preset files in a different directory by defining either the SHAVE_COMMON_PRESET_PATH environment variable or the SHAVE_LOCATION environment variable.

If SHAVE_COMMON_PRESET_PATH is defined then Shave will search for its preset files in that directory. For example, if your Maya.env file contained the following definition:

SHAVE_COMMON_PRESET_PATH=/Users/Shared/myMaya

then Shave And A Haircut would look for the grass preset in:

/Users/Shared/myMaya/grass.mel

If the directory does not exist or is empty, Shave And A Haircut will look no further and will assume that presets are unavailable.

If SHAVE_COMMON_PRESET_PATH is not defined, but SHAVE_LOCATION is, then Shave will treat it as the top of a directory tree having the same structure as Maya's Contents hierarchy and try to locate its preset files relative to that. For example, if your Maya.env file contained the following definition:

SHAVE_LOCATION=/Users/Shared/myMaya

then Shave And A Haircut would look for the grass preset in:

/Users/Shared/myMaya/presets/attrPresets/shaveHair/grass.mel

If the directory does not exist or is empty, Shave will go on to search the normal MAYA_LOCATION directory tree.

Mental Ray Shaders (optional)

/Applications/Alias/maya8.0/Maya.app/Contents/mentalray/include/shaveMRShader.mi
/Applications/Alias/maya8.0/Maya.app/Contents/mentalray/lib/shaveMRShader.so
/Applications/Alias/maya8.0/Maya.app/Contents/mentalray/maya.rayrc

The locations of these files are mandated by Maya and, to the best of our knowledge, they cannot be relocated elsewhere except by moving all of Maya.

RenderMan Shaders (optional)

Shave has a single RenderMan shader called Shave.slo which is installed into the prman/lib/shaders directory within Maya's shared plug-ins directory. For example:

/Users/Shared/Alias/maya/8.0/plug-ins/prman/lib/shaders/Shave.slo

By default Shave looks for this shader relative to the location of its plugin file, shaveNode.bundle (or shaveNode.lib if you're using Maya 7.0) which normally sits in the plug-ins directory of the path given above. So if you move shaveNode.bundle to a different directory then you should move the prman directory there as well.

Alternatively, you can move the Shave.slo file itself into the lib/shaders subdirectory of any directory in the user's RMSTREE.

Installing Shave And A Haircut On Windows

Before Installation

Shave And A Haircut for Windows comes as an executable installer with a filename something like this:

shave-4.4v12-Release-Maya8.0.exe
shave-4.4v12-Release-Maya8.0x64.exe

The first is the version for 32-bit Maya, the second is the version for 64-bit Maya.

Make sure that the Maya version given in the filename matches the version of Maya for which you are installing Shave And A Haircut (.e.g. '8.0' for 32-bit Maya 8.0 or '8.0x64' for 64-bit Maya 8.0). For the remainder of this document we will assume that you are installing Shave And A Haircut for 32-bit Maya 8.0. If not, please remember to adjust the version numbers in any filenames or commands presented here to match your version of Maya.

If any users on the system are currently running Maya, have them exit until the installation is complete.

Installing Shave And A Haircut

To install Shave And A Haircut, run the executable by double-clicking on its filename. This will launch the Shave And A Haircut installation wizard which will guide you through the remainder of the installation process.

Installing Mental Ray Standalone Support

Maya allows scenes to be exported as .mi files which can then be rendered using a standalone Mental Ray renderer. To make use of Shave And A Haircut in those standalone renders, copy the following file to the lib subdirectory of your standalone Mental Ray installation:

C:\Program Files\Alias\maya8.0\mentalray\lib\shaveMRShader.dll

and copy the following file to the include subdirectory of your standalone Mental Ray installation:

C:\Program Files\Alias\maya8.0\mentalray\include\shaveMRShader.mi

Installing RenderMan Shaders

Shave has a single RenderMan shader called Shave.slo which is installed into the plug-ins/prman/lib/shaders folder within the JoeAlter tree. For example:

C:\Program Files\JoeAlter\shaveHaircut\maya8.0\plug-ins\prman\lib\shaders\Shave.slo

The current beta versions of RenderMan Studio and RenderMan for Maya do not allow shaders to be located anywhere except in their own rmantree\lib\shaders folder. For example, if you have RenderMan Studio installed in:

C:\Program Files\Pixar\RenderMan-Studio-maya8.5

Then you will need to copy Shave.slo into this folder:

C:\Program Files\Pixar\RenderMan-Studio-maya8.5\rmantree\lib\shaders

Licensing Shave And A Haircut

If you are installing a trial version of Shave And A Haircut, no license is required. Otherwise, your copy of Shave And A Haircut must be licensed before it can be used.

Shave And A Haircut provides two different types of licenses: node-locked and floating. A node-locked license is restricted to a single, specific computer while a floating license can be used on any computer connected to your local network. The next two sections describe how to set up each of these types of licenses.

Loading The Plugin

To use Shave And A Haircut from within Maya, bring up Maya's Plug-in Manager, which can be found on the Maya menubar under Window : Settings/Preferences : Plug-in Manager.

The Plug-in Manager will display its plugins in several sections. Shave And A Haircut will have its own section, bearing a name something like this:

C:/Program Files/JoeAlter/shaveHaircut/maya8.0/plug-ins

Beneath that heading you should see an entry for the shaveNode.mll file with two checkboxes to the right of it, marked loaded and auto load.

To load Shave And A Haircut, check the loaded box. To have Shave And A Haircut automatically load whenever you start up Maya, also check the auto load box.

Uninstalling Shave And A Haircut

To uninstall Shave And A Haircut, run the Add/Remove Programs utility, usually found on the Windows Control Panel. Click on the entry for Shave And A Haircut For Maya then click on the Change/Remove button which appears. This will launch an uninstaller wizard, which will guide you through the remainder of the installation.

Note that if, during installation, you copied files by hand as described in Installing Mental Ray Standalone Support, then you will have to remove those files by hand.

Remote Installation

The installer executable provides a "silent" mode of operation which performs a default installation without using a graphical interface and without requiring any user input. As such it is well suited for use in remote and unattended installations.

To access the silent mode, run the executable from the command line and append the /s flag. You'll also want to use the /r flag to tell it not to prompt you about file conflicts but to just go ahead and replace any existing files with those from the installer. E.g:

shave-4.4v12-Release-Maya8.0.exe /s /r

Some System Administrators install Maya simply by copying its files from another system. This results in an installation for which there are no entries in the Windows Registry. The installer can handle this so long as Maya has been installed in its standard location (e.g. C:\Program Files\Alias\Maya8.0). However, if there are no registry entries and Maya has been installed in a non-standard location, then the installation will fail.

If you run into this problem, you will have to explictly give the path to the Maya installation directory on the command line, using the '/var:MayaLocation=' syntax. E.g:

shave-4.4v12-Release-Maya8.0.exe /s /r /var:MayaLocation="D:\Apps\Alias\Maya8.0"

Relocating Files

For most users the standard locations used by Shave for its components will be sufficient. However, users with special needs may need to relocate some or all of Shave's components to different locations on their computer's disks, or on a network.

This section lists the various categories of files included in the Shave And A Haircut installation, their default locations, and how to go about relocating them to different folders.

Base Plugin And Scripts (required)

On Windows Shave And A Haircut is shipped as a Maya module. This means that there is a module definition file which points to a special folder containing most of the files required by Shave And A Haircut. Unfortunately, Maya does not yet support the modularization of runtime libraries, presets, Mental Ray for Maya shaders, or shader icons, so those elements of the plugin must be dealt with separately.

The module definition file for Shave And A Haircut is named shaveHaircut.mod and is located in Maya's module folder for the specific version of Maya for which it was installed. For example:

C:\Program Files\Alias\Maya8.0\modules\shaveHaircut.mod

By default, the module file will point to the JoeAlter\shaveHaircut\maya8.0 folder, located in your system's Program Files folder:

C:\Program Files\JoeAlter\shaveHaircut\maya8.0

Within that folder lie four sub-folders, containing plug-ins, scripts, icons and Shave API sample files:

C:\Program Files\JoeAlter\shaveHaircut\maya8.0\plug-ins
C:\Program Files\JoeAlter\shaveHaircut\maya8.0\scripts
C:\Program Files\JoeAlter\shaveHaircut\maya8.0\samples

All except the sample files are required for the proper operation of Shave And A Haircut.

The easiest way to relocate these files is to move the entire sub-tree, as a unit, and modify the path in the shaveHaircut.mod file to point to the new location.

The shaveHaircut.mod file itself may be relocated to any folder in the user's MAYA_MODULE_PATH.

Alternatively, the files in the plug-ins sub-folder may be moved to any folder which is in the user's MAYA_PLUG_IN_PATH, the files in the scripts sub-folder to any folder in the user's MAYA_SCRIPT_PATH, and the files in the icons sub-folder to any folder in the user's XBMLANGPATH. The files in the samples sub-folder can go wherever you like.

Base Runtime Library (required)

Shave And A Haircut installs a library named libShave.dll to which it must have access at runtime. By default this file is placed in Maya's bin folder along with Maya's own runtime libraries. E.g:

C:\Program Files\Alias\Maya8.0\bin\libShave.dll

You may relocate this library to any folder in the user's PATH

Icons (recommended)

Some versions of Maya do not allow icons to be stored within the module tree, so Shave And A Haircut installs its icons into Maya's own icons folder. E.g:

C:\Program Files\Alias\Maya8.0\icons

Any files whose names begin with shave or render_shave are part of the Shave And A Haircut plugin.

In Maya 6.5 these files must remain in Maya's own icons directory. In Maya 7.0 and later they can be relocated to any directory in the user's XBMLANGPATH.

Presets (required)

These presets are intended to be available to all users on the system and are normally stored with the rest of Maya's system-wide presets in a folder relative to Maya's installation directory. So for Maya 8.0 the default location of the script file for Shave's grass preset would be:

C:\Program Files\Alias\Maya8.0\presets\attrPresets\shaveHair\grass.mel

Shave And A Haircut can be made to look for its preset files in a different folder by defining either the SHAVE_COMMON_PRESET_PATH environment variable or the SHAVE_LOCATION environment variable.

If SHAVE_COMMON_PRESET_PATH is defined then Shave will search for its preset files in that folder. For example, if your Maya.env file contained the following definition:

SHAVE_COMMON_PRESET_PATH=D:\myMaya

then Shave And A Haircut would look for the grass preset in:

D:\myMaya\grass.mel

If the folder does not exist or is empty, Shave And A Haircut will look no further and will assume that presets are unavailable.

If SHAVE_COMMON_PRESET_PATH is not defined, but SHAVE_LOCATION is, then Shave will treat it as the top of a folder tree having the same structure as MAYA_LOCATION and try to locate its preset files relative to that. For example, if your Maya.env file contained the following definition:

SHAVE_LOCATION=D:\myMaya

then Shave And A Haircut would look for the grass preset in:

D:\myMaya\presets\attrPresets\shaveHair\grass.mel

If the folder does not exist or is empty, Shave will go on to search the normal MAYA_LOCATION folder tree.

Mental Ray Shaders (optional)

Shave And A Haircut's support for Mental Ray for Maya involves three files: a shader definition file called shaveMRShader.mi, a shader library file called shaveMRShader.dll, and the Mental Ray for Maya startup file which is called maya.rayrc. These files are installed within the mentalrayhierarchy beneath Maya's own installation folder. For Maya 8.0, the files would be located as follows:

C:\Program Files\Alias\Maya8.0\mentalray\include\shaveMRShader.mi
C:\Program Files\Alias\Maya8.0\mentalray\lib\shaveMRShader.dll
C:\Program Files\Alias\Maya8.0\mentalray\maya.rayrc

The locations of these files are mandated by Maya and, to the best of our knowledge, cannot be relocated elsewhere except by moving all of Maya.

RenderMan Shaders (optional)

Shave has a single RenderMan shader called Shave.slo which is installed into the plug-ins/prman/lib/shaders folder within the JoeAlter tree. For example:

C:\Program Files\JoeAlter\shaveHaircut\maya8.0\plug-ins\prman\lib\shaders\Shave.slo

C:\Program Files\Pixar\RenderMan-Studio-maya8.5

Then you will need to copy Shave.slo into this folder:

C:\Program Files\Pixar\RenderMan-Studio-maya8.5\rmantree\lib\shaders

Shave API Plugins (optional)

Third-party plugins developed using the Shave And A Haircut API will require the presence of the libShaveAPI.dll runtime library, which by default can be found in Maya's own bin folder. E.g:

C:\Program Files\Alias\Maya8.0\bin\libShaveAPI.dll

If you are using third-party plugins built with the Shave And A Haircut API and need to relocate this file, the folder to which you relocate it must be in the user's PATH.

Note that Shave And A Haircut does not itself use this file.

Shave API Development (optional)

Developers wishing to create their own plugins which use the Shave And A Haircut API will need access to the libShaveAPI.dll runtime library described in the previous section, as well as its associated header file, shaveAPI.h. By default this file is located within Maya's own include folder. E.g:

C:\Program Files\Alias\Maya8.0\include\maya\shaveAPI.h

Shave And A Haircut does not itself use this header file, so you may freely relocate it to any folder.

Maya Environment Variables

If you don't know which directories are pointed to by a given Maya environment variable, such as MAYA_PLUG_IN_PATH, then start up Maya and in the Script Editor window and use the getenv command on the variable name. E.g:

getenv MAYA_PLUG_IN_PATH

Maya will display a single line containing all of the directories that Maya will search for, in this case, plug-ins.