tentacletk 0.6.2

A Python3/PySide2 marking menu style toolkit for Maya, 3ds Max, and Blender.

tentacle is a Python3/PySide2 marking menu and ui for Maya, 3ds Max, and Blender.

**personal project. work in progress ..**

Design:

This is a dynamic ui toolkit with a marking menu style ui (derived from a QStackedWidget) at it's core. The switchboard module (derived from QUiLoader) provides properties and convenience methods that allow quick and easy getting/setting of relevant ui and widget data across modules.

*Example re-opening the last scene, renaming a material, and selecting geometry by that material.

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Structure:

Example	Description
tcl	Handles main gui construction for the marking menu.
events	Event handling for dynamic ui.
overlay	Tracks cursor position and ui hierarchy to generate paint events that overlay it's parent widget.
switchboard	Loads dynamic ui and custom widgets on demand. Assigns properties and provides convenience methods for interacting with the ui.
slots	Modules for the various slot connections.

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Installation:

To install: Add the tentacle folder to a directory on your python path, or install via pip in a command line window using:

python -m pip install tentacletk

To launch the marking menu: For Maya: Add a macro to a hotkey similar to the following:

from tentacle import tcl_maya
tcl_maya.show(key_show='Key_F12')

For 3ds Max: Add a macro to a hotkey similar to the following:

macroScript main_max
category: "_macros.ui"
silentErrors: false
autoUndoEnabled: false
(
	python.Execute "from tentacle import tcl_max"
	python.Execute "tcl_max.show(key_show='Key_F12')"
)

See the switchboard module for a demo on how to launch a stand alone dynamic ui.