Applications preferences

There are two groups of options you can set.

Application Path for Viewing Images / Application Path for Viewing Sequences: Select your own image viewer or image sequence viewer to be launched from within Maya instead of using FCheck. This program is used when you select File > View Image or File > View Sequence; this also applies to Playblast and Hypershade > Edit > Render Texture Range.

Type in the path to your image viewer, or browse for it by clicking the folder icon.

In the Optional Flags section, use the following syntax to set up your image viewer:

Identifier	Meaning
%f	File name
%s	Start frame
%e	End frame
%b	Jump by frames
%r	Frame rate

When Maya invokes this command, these identifiers are replaced by proper values specified in Maya.

Application Path for Editing Adobe Photoshop Files: Specifies the application used for editing Adobe^® Photoshop^® files from PSD file texture nodes, using the View or Edit buttons, or when creating or editing PSD networks. This setting is useful when you have more than one version of Adobe Photoshop installed.
Application Path for Editing Other Image Files: Specifies the application used for editing images from file texture nodes, using the View or Edit buttons.

For more information, see File textures.

For both of these options, type in the path to the application you want to use in the field provided, or browse to the application’s executable.

Export to Mudbox

Maya uses the following values to determine where to export geometry to Autodesk Mudbox.

Application Path: Specifies the application used for editing Autodesk Mudbox files.
Export Folder: Specifies where a file goes when the user selects the File > Export selected to Mudbox option.

External Communication

This section sets options that control the command port of Maya. These settings are generally used to facilitate communication with the Maya Web browser plug-in. For more information, see Maya Web browser plug-in.

Default command port: Enables or disables the default command port.
Name: The name of the command port. You can change the name (for security reasons, for example).