adding to the menu 2003-12-01 - By Andrew Chapman
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Elvira Pinkhas wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Thanks to everyone who replied to my questions on making stars.
>
> Now, I have a questions regarding UI.
> I need to add another menu Item under the Render menu( the one which has
batch render, cancel batch render, etc....,)
>
> I am not sure how to do this. i tried to do this:
> setParent -m MayaWindow|mainRenderMenu;
>
> menuItem -label "Remote Render...";
>
> However, nothing seems to be added to that menu.
>
> If someone can help me, I would greatly appreciate it.
You can't do it, because they completely screwed up when they
implemented Mental Ray for Maya, and it blows the menu away and
recreates it every time it is shown.
I initially had my Render Passes plugin neatly under the render menu,
until Mental Ray came along.
BTW, a quick tute on creating menus on my site:
http://www.technolumiere.com/vfx/tutorials.html
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Andrew Chapman
3D Technical Director - Framestore CFC
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