Long Winter (Installation and Activation)

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How to install and activate for home use

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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.
Step 1: Request Long Winter using the Home Use Software form
Step 2: Generate your license key
Step 3: Download & unzip the installer
  • Download the file named LONGWINTER_INSTALL using the download link from the previous step

NEW DOWNLOAD LINK: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qhzgc2631ckjr5b/characterTools-master.zip?dl=0&file_subpath=%2FcharacterTools-master%2Fscripts

  • 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)

Step 5: Open the Character Manager
Step 6: Activate Characters

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Article ID: 4505
Created
Wed 10/19/22 1:25 AM
Modified
Wed 12/6/23 12:42 PM

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