Long Winter Rigs Activation + Installation Steps

Summary

  • Long Winter Studios rigs are pre-built 3D characters designed for animation training and pre-visualization with Autodesk Maya
  • These assets are bundled with our Maya installations on shared PC workstations and Remote PC
  • Students and faculty in 3D Animation may also request to use Long Winter rigs on their personal device
  • To use Long Winter rigs, you must first have Maya licensed and installed on your device.

Disclaimer

  • If install via the below steps fail, please see the Install Long Winter Maya Add On text document for further troubleshooting. 
  • If it still fails, please contact the Animation Tech (animtech@ecuad.ca) or Long Winter support (support@longwintermembers.com) for further assistance.

Instructions

 

Step 1: Request Long Winter using the Home Use Software form

  • Select the Long Winter rigs option
  • Provide or withhold consent to use ecuad.ca email address 
    • provide alternate address if consent withheld
  • Accept loan terms and conditions
  • Requests are approved based on 3DAN course enrollment
  • Please allow 1/2 day for staff to assign a license key before receiving an email notification

 

Step 2: Generate your license key

Once you have been notified that your request has been approved, you can generate a subscription key

  • Use the email address you provided and the access code 107704 to generate or retrieve your license key 
  • After clicking GET LICENSE KEY you will be provided with your full key and a download link for the software
  • This key will be entered directly into Maya to access Long Winter

Step 3: Download & unzip the installer

  • Download the file named LONGWINTER_INSTALL using the download link from the previous step
  • Extract the main folder from the .zip file.
    • Windows: Right-click \ Extract All..
  • Next, extract the sub-folder that best suites your Maya version:
    • For 2022 and newer, use characterTools-master2022
    • For all older versions of Maya, use characterTools-master

Step 4: Copy files to your local scripts folder

  • Place the contents of characterTools-master\scripts  folder into your Documents\Maya\[version]\scripts folder
    • i.e. for Maya 2020
      • Source:
        • extract from LONGWINTER_INSTALL.zip
        • use the sub-folder characterTools-master\scripts
        • contains .py, .pyc and .mel files
      • Destination:
        • C:\Users\[username]\Documents\Maya\2020\scripts (Windows)
        • ~/Library/Preferences/Alias/maya/version/scripts (macOS)
          • *on a Mac, the library folder may be hidden
          • Hit Command+Shift+G from the Mac desktop (or Finder > Go > Go to Folder) and type in ~/Library to temporarily access the Library directory in the Finder
          • When you are done, close this window and it will no longer be visible.)
        • As shown below (Windows)
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Step 5: Open the Character Manager

  • Open the Character Manager via the Long Winter menu
  • Select a character and hit the reference button at the bottom of the Character Manager

Step 6: Activate Characters

  • Open a character via the Character Manager
  • Enter your license information:
    • email address
    • license key 
  • Keep a record of your license information
    • re-enter info if the Long Winter license times out

 

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