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Latest version 1.1.0 build 77 installed on Win7 SP1 Ultimate.It claimed the PATH was empty and added itself.Just the plugin now in the System PATH. The User PATH is still intact.It is possible my PATH was close to its length limit and that caused the problem.Nevertheless, either cover for it, or much better, do NOT add anything to the path. Append to Maya.env or make a note for the user to handle it.
Hi and thanks for your bug report.
the first time when you installed the plugin, you should have had some
errors into the installer log window. Have you maybe copied this log
messages, so I can understand better what was going wrong? Without
these log messages I can only guess the issue.
Anyway the plugin installer uses the stable and popular installer NSIS
(Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) and the NSIS component
https://nsis.sourceforge.net/Environmental_Variables:_append,_prepend,_and_remove_entries
in order to update the environment variable PATH. I can see that there
was found a bug on this installer component and I can see on NSIS site
the message added just yesterday: "WARNING: Strings longer than ${NSIS_MAX_STRLEN} will get truncated/corrupted. Do NOT use this function to update %PATH%".
I will change the installer behaviour avoiding the use of this installer
component in the next version of the plugin (just today), providing also a manual
install method.
Unfortunately, since the plugin is using some shared dynamic libraries,
the only way for Maya to load this libraries is changing the PATH
environment variable, since you don't want to copy the required .dll
into the Maya bin directory, this is the link that effectively explain
this: https://docs.autodesk.com/MAYAUL/2014/ENU/Maya-API-Documentation/files/GUID-E7B113F2-5AFD-4C05-A747-298C06586447.htm (the maya.env doesn't work for the shared dynamic libraries).
Thank you very much
Pier Paolo
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