How to Install and License Long Winter Rigs

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.

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

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 keyShow

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 installerShow

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 folderShow

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)

Step 5: Open the Character ManagerShow

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 CharactersShow

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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