Copying Maya to network share
If you would like to run a thin client installation of Maya, which means you run it off a network share rather from a local installation, you need to make sure to copy symlinks on Linux.
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Find file or folder in Linux
Ever needed to do a simple search for an application, a file or a folder in Linux and when whereis doesn’t return anything useful?
Run gsutil from crontab
Setting up gsutil to sync files over to Google Cloud Storage (on CentOS 6) requires some environment variables to be set, which seems oddly undocumented at the moment. Turning to Stackoverflow was the solution, and here’s a summary from that.
What's hogging that folder?
Well, at least in Linux you might find out using this command:
Fabric on CentOS 6.6
When installing Fabric on CentOS 6.6 using pip, it seems a bug is being hit.
Stop using print and do some logging
This will print to stdout, similar to a regular print, but it will also log to file.
How to create large temp files quickly (for testing purposes)
Quick and dirty way to just create a 10GB temp file for testing e.g. network transfer speeds.
Modal QMainWindow setup in Maya (or Nuke) without Shiboken/SIP
An easy way to get going with PySide in Maya (or Nuke for that matter) without the hassle of dealing with the shiboken/sip layer.
Set Maya project and create folder structure
After having done a quick Google search, it seems nobody has yet posted a quick Python snippet that does this.
Maya and relativity
A short note on how to work with relative paths in Autodesk’s Maya.