Mapy

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mapy
Developed by Farsheed Ashouri
Latest release 1.6.4 / March 9, 2008
OS Microsoft Windows / Linux
Genre Text editor
License GNU
Website http://www.rodmena.com/mapy

mapy is a free software for Autodesk Maya™ and is an external command sender.

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[edit] Features

  • Users can develop Python and MEL scripts on most of advanced text editors using mapy.
  • mapy has a feature named Automatic Selected Text Sender that executes only selected parts of script.
  • mapy works with various text editors including SciTE, UltraEdit, TextPad , ...

[edit] Reviews

mapy has been given high ranks by different users. [1] In a review published on Highend3d, different users claimed that mapy is very useful. Also in mapy's blog [2] most users acknowledge it's idea and development.

[edit] Limitations

mapy has few limitations. Since it is only a command sender (And not a plug-in) it cant solve problems occurred by Maya (software). Also mapy is not multi platform. The mac version of mapy is not available yet and the linux version has been discontinued since version 1.4.0 (but available for download).

[edit] Future

based on author [3] mapy will be open source as version 2.5.

[edit] See also

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[edit] References

  1. ^ mapy comments. Highend3d Team. Retrieved on 2008-05-01.
  2. ^ mapy weblog. Wordpress. Retrieved on 2008-05-02.
  3. ^ mapy weblog comments. Wordpress. Retrieved on 2008-04-28.