
See Read Maya.env from a custom location.

Tip: You can also save your Maya.env custom location. /Users/username/Library/Preferences/Autodesk/maya./Users/username/Library/Preferences/Autodesk/maya/version.drive:\Users\username\Documents\maya\version.Save it to one of the following directories:.env extension is not recognized as a text file, you may need to open Maya.env from a word processing application instead of double-clicking the filename or icon. (In the TextEdit Preferences window, set New Document Format to Plain text, and under Saving, turn off the option Append “.txt” to plain text files.)īecause the. If you use TextEdit or a word processing program, be sure to save it as an ASCII (basic) text file, not RTF. (Mac OS X) Maya.env is a text file that you can create and edit with any text editor. (All platforms) To set environment variables in a Maya.env file See your networking documentation for details on setting up roaming profiles. You can also set up Maya.env as a roaming profile to be shared by many machines this can be useful, for example, when you are performing distributed rendering among several Windows machines. Using the Maya.env file is recommended so that you don’t clutter the standard environment settings with Maya-specific variables.

There are two ways to set environment variables outside of Maya: using the standard operating system commands, or editing the Maya.env file.
