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After checking multiple other threads I have nothing left to try except posting to see if anyone has any other ideas.

I have mgear installed and will import when running “import mgear” in console, but no menu items appear on the menu bar.
I have Python 3 installed as can be seen in the image,
I have pymel installed as can be seen in the image and no errors appear importing it,
recently upgraded from maya 2022.2 to 2022.3 with no change in behaviour.
I have deleted the maya prefs folder with no change in behaviour.

any ideas on what else to try?
I’d be happy to directly call menu items by script if there’s a way to find out what those commands are?

#2

How/where do you have mGear installed?

What version of mGear?

#3

Hey Chris, thanks for responding.

version: 4.0.3
install path: E:\Documents\maya\modules\scripts\mgear
I wonder if my documents folder being on the E:\ drive and not the C:\ drive makes a difference?

just did an uninstall/re-install of Maya2022 with no luck too.
I have done a few uninstall/reinstalls of mgear, one post mentioned putting it outside the default path so I tried installing it to a folder on my D:\ drive which didn’t change anything so far.

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#4

No, the path shouldn’t (usually) matter, and it is loading.

Have you seen this thread? There are no clear answers, but it seems like kind of a common problem. For Joe, it was some kind of problem with the userSetup.py file. Installing mGear in Maya 2020

Just a quick head’s up to close this thread about the installation. The issue was due to errors caused by a preceding userSetup.py file. The way @joedanimation had mGear setup on his end was correct, just failed to load due to Maya’s cascading effect on loading time.

Unfortunately, I don’t know exactly what a potential fix could be, or even how to test that.

#5

Hey Chris,
This was helpful! I started checking the output log and indeed some custom tools were throwing errors causing some userSetup.py files to fail loading.

The cause of the issue was the change from python 2 to python 3, some of the scripts were missing parenthesis on print statements and a few modules needed updating to their python 3 names. Once this was done mgear has started loading again.

Thanks for your help!

#6

Nice, glad you got it sorted!

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