About Maya 2022 support

chrislesage · March 26, 2021, 1:20am

Hey everyone!

Regarding the release of Maya 2022. While we do our best to answer questions and respond to bugs promptly in this community, now would be a great time to remind everyone, “mGear is free and open source, under MIT license. At this point we can’t guarantee any support.” Miquel, and the developers who contribute to mGear are busy working professionals too.

A new release, with bug fixes and compiled solvers for Maya 2022 will be coming as soon as it can. But please be patient, and make sure you don’t upgrade your productions too quickly, without thoroughly testing first!

Bug reports are always very welcome, but again, please be patient and please be careful! This is a big release with lots of changes.

Support for Python 3 will not be coming until later. It will be a much larger effort, and will be planned as mGear version 4.

Thanks!

chrislesage · March 26, 2021, 1:27am

soulcage · March 27, 2021, 10:33am

i am more a hobbyist concerning scripting/programming…
is python 3 not 100% compatible with python 2, so mgear just can use python 3 as it is?
(dont know what dependencies has to be recompiled/rewritten to python 3 for mgear…maybe with 2to3 helps converting?)

oglu · March 30, 2021, 8:57am

Could we get a rough timeframe for mGear 4?

I mean super rough. “Like not in the next 5 month” . I just need to plan the pipeline for the next projects.

dew · March 30, 2021, 9:05am

If I had to imagine that’s going to take quite a bit of time. Even without mGear shifting a lot of tools to python 3 is going to be a very slow process. I’d say a year minimum to rebuild everything to be comfortably compatible.

Miquel · March 30, 2021, 9:44am

It is hard/risky to give any date. I would like to do it fast but it depends on how much time we have available.

Miquel · April 1, 2021, 9:42pm

Just testing mGear with Maya 2022 / Python2

Aerys · April 3, 2021, 8:50pm

I’d expect most Maya 2022 plugins to do initial releases with python2 and upgrade to python3 later on.

Miquel · April 12, 2021, 11:33pm

mGear 3.7.11 with initial support for Maya 2022 Win10 + python2 is available Releases · mgear-dev/mgear_dist · GitHub
NOTE: Linux and Mac OS are not supported

Chad_Gleason · May 28, 2021, 5:10am

I’m a little confused about Python 2 vs Python 3 here. It sounds like in order to use mGear we have to force Maya 2022 to only use python 2. My team has decided to move to Maya 2022 because of the Python 3 support. Are we unable to use mGear in Maya 2022 if we also want to use Python 3 in our tool development?

Also, is MacOS intended to be supported in the near future?

chrislesage · May 28, 2021, 5:39am

Hi Chad,

There is a plan to support Python 3, but it currently is not supported. You have to use Python 2 for now. Support for Python 3 will be in mGear 4.

Which possibly means that mGear 3 and MacOS won’t be supported in Maya 2022.

Miquel · May 28, 2021, 5:43am

I am preparing the initial refactor these days. We may have a beta soon.

Chad_Gleason · May 28, 2021, 5:50am

Thank you for your reply.

So, to be clear, if our tech artists are writing Maya 2022 tools using python 3, then we cannot use mGear in our pipeline until mGear 4 arrives?

(Apologies for sounding so dumb here. The transition from python 2 to python 3 is causing headaches for us non-scripters as we try to wrap our brains around it)

Miquel · May 28, 2021, 5:50am

correct, you will need mgear 4

Chad_Gleason · May 28, 2021, 5:53am

Thank you again for the quick reply. Argh, we picked a great time to switch to Maya 2022!