Digital Tutors - Creating Custom User Interfaces in Maya and Qt Designer

Duration 1h 34m Level Intermediate Project Files Included

Software used

Maya 2012 64-bit, Qt Designer, Python 2.6, PyQt4

What you will learn

In this tutorial we will learn how to utilize Qt Designer for creating custom UIs. We will

discover the awesome art of using Qt Designer along with Python, PyQt4 and MEL scripting to create custom UIs within Maya.

We will go over the use of Qt Designer along with using Python to connect everything together. Some scripting knowledge is useful, but not necessarily needed. Everything is provided within this tutorial along with project files and scripts.

1. Introduction and project overview 00:42

2. Building our template 10:26

3. Creating our first UI 11:11

4. Creating a script for rigging 10:24

5. Finishing our rigging script 10:28

6. Using the combo box 13:26

7. The secret of spin box 15:01

8. Finalization of our jointPath script 17:04

9. Wrapping up and cleaning our script 06:17