A rig, a pipe, and a scripter walk into a bar...

This repo is currently under development, feel free to peruse for updates or cool functions/ideas. Tools are biased towards Maya and Unreal Engine.

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Run piper_installer.exe to add files that allow the user's currently installed Digital Content Creation (DCC) packages to know about piper. See, Building the Piper Installer below if piper_installer.exe is missing.

Maya

• piper_installer.exe will create the following file:
  USER/Documents/maya/VERSION/modules/piper.mod

Houdini

• piper_installer.exe will create the following file:
  USER/Documents/houdiniVERSION/packages/piper.json

Unreal

• piper_installer.exe will create the following symlink directory:
  PROJECT/Plugins/Piper

Requires:

• Python 3.10.8 (Same as latest Maya version (2024), otherwise maya.standalone fails)
• PyInstaller
• PySide2

Run build_piper_installer.bat to generate piper_installer.exe

If cloning repo, make sure to initiate and update submodules found in piper/vendor after cloning. Example below

cd piper/vendor/pyx
git submodule init
git submodule update

Alternatively, clone, initiate, and update the repo and its submodules all in one line by running:

git clone --recurse-submodules -j8 https://github.com/MongoWobbler/piper.git

• Windows
• Maya 2023 to 2024
• Houdini 18.5 to 19.5
• Unreal Engine 5