Application 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.

Example

The following examples refer to FrameCycler, although you can use many other programs to view images and sequences. Please see your product’s documentation for details of its command-line support.

To set up your View Image and View Sequence commands to work with FrameCycler, enter the following:

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).