GoZ opening new Maya every time.

[PatrickSurace]

Hi all,

I’m having an issue where GoZ opens a new instance of Maya every time I press it from Z4. Has anyone experienced this? Let me know if there is a solution!

-Patrick

[ninjatastic]

Yes, I’m having this problem at work. But I don’t have this problem at home. I’m not sure how to fix it either.

[highlander_72]

Same here. I’m on XP-64 with Maya 2009. I tried editing the userSetup.mel as described in another thread, but Z4 still opens a new instance of Maya everytime GoZ is pressed from inside ZB, regardless of how many instances of Maya are open already. I’d really appreciate a solution here as well.

Cheers!

[system]

Ditto! I just checked this out and I get the same issue. I had problems with the install as the goz shelf did not appear in Maya so I had to copy the shelf script to the correct location. I guess i’ll just not bother with Goz until someone comes up with a fix. To be honest it is just another thing that isn’t working as expected, I have experienced more crashes with version 4 in a few weeks than 3.5 in total, and I have already reinstalled version 4 3 times to try and fix things.

[highlander_72]

Works like a charm now on my end. Here’s how it’s solved:

I just got it working with Maya without multiple instances, on 64bit Vista.

First, the GoZ shelf didn't appear until I moved: C:\Users\Public\Pixologic\GoZApps\Maya\shelf_GoZBrush.mel into: C:\Users\yourName\Documents\maya\2011-x64\prefs\shelves\ Then to get rid of the multiple instances I added: eval ("source \"C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2011/scripts/startup/GOZScript.mel\""); to userSetup.mel (thanks pid18000!). This file lives in: C:\Users\yourName\Documents\maya\2011-x64\prefs\scripts\ It's working perfect now.

I have managed to solve this.

First try this (edit: the above suggestion) Once you have them all sourced up, you need to edit that GoZ button in maya a little. You need to access it through the Shelf Editor once GoZ installed it correctly for you. By default it should look like something like this.

source “C:/Users/Public/Pixologic/GoZApps/Maya/GoZBrushFromMaya.mel” ;

Just add one more line below the first line.

source “C:/Users/Public/Pixologic/GoZApps/Maya/GoZBrushFromMaya.mel” ;
source “C:/Users/Public/Pixologic/GoZApps/Maya/GoZScript.mel” ;

So now everything when u send something to ZBrush, it will source the GoZScript and will 'listen' to any updates from Zbrush. This should stop it Zbrush from launching another Maya when you GoZ it back to maya. Hope it helps

Cheers!

PS: See here for the full thread: http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?p=725052&posted=1#post725052

[T0rch]

Thank you man, had problems with that for ages! Awesome!