ChatGPT for Maya

The power of ChatGPT directly in Autodesk Maya
chat.openai.com

Features

• Interactive chat window with ChatGPT
• Get AI generated tips, instructions or ideas
• Automate tasks in a simple manner
• Run and/or copy the code blocks from within chat window

Installation

Windows

Automatic installation

1. Download this repository and place it somewhere permanently*
2. Right click on setup_windows.bat and choose Run as administrator
3. Open Maya and load the plugin chatGPTForMayaPlugin.py from the list
4. A new Maya menu should show up called ChatGPT
5. Click on the option box for ChatGPT > Open chat
6. Get an API key from openai.com
7. Enter your API key into OpenAiApiKey and save settings

Notes:

• If you move it later you might have to re-run the setup

Manual installation

Setup openai with virtual environment

Setting up a virtual environment is optional but recommended to avoid conflicts with libraries and potentially cause instability in Maya.

1. Create a symlink for mayapy.exe called python.exe in the same folder
   • mayapy.exe is located in C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya<VERSION>\bin
   • Autodesk provides instructions for doing this here
2. Create a virtual environment using python.exe
3. Run pip install openai in your virtual environment
4. Run pip show openai and copy the path from Location:

Notes:

• If you want to avoid making any changes to your Maya environment whatsoever you can create virtual environment using pyenv and python version 3.7.7 (for Maya 2022)

Setup openai

Skip this section if you did the steps in the virtual environment section

3. Run cmd in C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya<VERSION>\bin
4. Run .\mayapy.exe -m pip install openai
5. Run .\mayapy.exe -m pip show openai and copy the path from Location:

Setup repository

1. Clone this repository
2. Modify contents of module/chatGPTForMayaModule.mod to look something like this:

   + ChatGPTForMaya 0.1 C:\path\to\ChatGPTforMaya\
   PYTHONPATH += C:\path\to\ChatGPTforMaya\
   PYTHONPATH += C:\path\to\virtualenv\ChatGPTforMaya\chatgpt4maya\src\venv\Lib\site-packages
   MAYA_PLUG_IN_PATH += C:\path\to\ChatGPTforMaya\plugin
   

3. Add C:\path\to\ChatGPTforMaya\module to MAYA_MODULE_PATH environment variable
4. Get an api key from openai.com
   • Optional: Add API key to OPENAI_API_KEY environment variable
5. Open Maya and load the plugin chatGPTForMayaPlugin.py from the list
6. A new Maya menu should show up called ChatGPT
7. Click on the option box for ChatGPT > Open chat
8. Enter your API key into OpenAiApiKey
9. Enter the path you got from pip show open into OpenAILibraryPath

Links

• https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook/blob/main/techniques_to_improve_reliability.md

License

This project is licensed under a Modified BSD license.

Copyright (c) 2023 Johannes Andersson.

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Disclaimer

I am not affiliated, associated, authorized, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected with Autodesk, OpenAI, ChatGPT, or any of its subsidiaries or its affiliates.

The official ChatGPT website can be found at https://chat.openai.com.

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Todo

• Write usage instructions
• Add clear conversation button
• Add quick command feature

Credits

Fonts

• Inter
• Sofia Sans
• Jetbrains Mono
• Montserrat
• Font Awesome

Other

• Original idea came from seeing Jiacheng Xu's integration of ChatGPT in Nuke