Main Maya Docs
API MFnPlugin docs, under 'modules'.
Modules are a way to distribute custom plugins. They define paths to text files that specify directories where the plugins, and their dependencies live. Docs give a good overview.
A given module will udpate Maya's
It should be called out that Maya's term of 'module' is different from Python's: A Python module is a single .py file.
The docs (here, here) don't seem to describe this too well, but based on looking at modules, you can set one up like this:
API MFnPlugin docs, under 'modules'.
Modules are a way to distribute custom plugins. They define paths to text files that specify directories where the plugins, and their dependencies live. Docs give a good overview.
A given module will udpate Maya's
MAYA_SCRIPT_PATH, MAYA_PLUGIN_PATH, XBMLANGPATH, & MAYA_PLUG_IN_RESOURCE_PATH based on the info it provides.It should be called out that Maya's term of 'module' is different from Python's: A Python module is a single .py file.
The docs (here, here) don't seem to describe this too well, but based on looking at modules, you can set one up like this:
/moduleRootDir<— This is what you add toMAYA_MODULE_PATH/icons<- any required icons go in here/maya_20XX<- There is one of these directories for every version of Maya that has a compiled plugin, the name can actually be anything, it's referenced by the description file below. But for example: /maya_2016, /maya2016.5, /maya_2017, etc./scripts<- any mel & Python goes in here./presets<- any (mel?) presets go here.
MySpecialModule.mod+ MAYAVERSION:2015 PLATFORM:win64 MySpecialModule 1.0 maya_2015\ PATH+:=..\..\MySpecialModule\ [r] scripts: ..\scripts [r] icons: ..\icons [r] plug-ins: . + MAYAVERSION:2016 PLATFORM:win64 MySpecialModule 1.0 maya_2016\ PATH+:=..\..\MySpecialModule\ [r] scripts: ..\scripts [r] icons: ..\icons [r] plug-ins: .Note the relative paths, that appear to be relative to the version-specific plugin folder listed on the first line of each section.