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GoZ to Maya - why it's launching new Maya instance every time?

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#1

Hello!
I have trouble exporting form ZBrush to Maya: almost every time ZBrush launches new Maya instance, but what I need is to add exported SubTools to already opened Maya scene.
How to setup GoZ properly to achieve that?

What I’ve found so far:

  • Seems that ZBrush runs small utility at path C:\Users\Public\Pixologic\GoZApps\Maya\GoZBrushToMaya.exe that responsible for importing into Maya (running it from command launches new Maya instance + sends exported SubTools via Maya’s commandPort). Could be great to found the way to prevent it from launching new Maya every time.

Your help will be very appreciated.

#2

After checking userSetup.mel I found it that GoZ wasn’t enabled on startup. After fixing it everything seems to work fine.

#3

Can you post what you did to your usersetup.mel to fix it?

#4

Sorry for late reply. Probably what I said was a bit misleading. I just disabled loading ZBrush plugin (scripts) at startup and tried to load it only when needed (I used custom Mel scripts). Unfortunately this didn’t work as I expected. After reverting to default userSetup.mel everything works just fine.
:+1:

#5

I still having problem. I am using Maya 2017 and zBrush 4R8.

From Maya to zBrush I have no problems but when I do some update on zBrush and GoZ to Maya it opens a new instance of Maya instead of update the old one.

I already checked my userSetup.mel and turned my goz plugin ON on my Maya’s Plugin manager.

Any help will be appreciated. :slight_smile:

#6

I would absolutely LOVE a solution to this because I am having the same issue:

GoZ from Maya works fine, but trying to send it back to Maya opens the subtool in a new instance of Maya. Every subtool opens a whole new Maya scene, completely breaking my workflow. This is getting pretty absurd.

ETA:

Okay, I found a solution that works for me. After tons of Googling all the different search terms I could think of, I found this:

http://miloblogger.blogspot.com/2010/09/some-gozbrush-issues-solution-in.html

The pertinent bit:

Open Shelf Editor, select GoZBrush then change to Edit Commands tab. Just add one more line below the first line*2:
source “C:/Users/Public/Pixologic/GoZApps/Maya/GoZScript.mel” ;
(This is solved GoZ launching multiple instances of maya issue and Maya→ZBrush does not success issue.)

*2:Remenber add “;” in the end of each command line :
source “C:/Users/Public/Pixologic/GoZApps/Maya/GoZBrushFromMaya.mel” ;

source “C:/Users/Public/Pixologic/GoZApps/Maya/GoZScript.mel” ;

I am getting an error in the Maya command line:

// Error: file: C:/Users/Public/Pixologic/GoZApps/Maya/GoZScript.mel line 8: Command port: 127.0.0.1:5555 is already active.

But otherwise, I was just able to send a mesh to ZB 4R8, edit it, then send the changes back to the same Maya scene, so there we go.