Maya Custom UI

[laise.medroom]

Hi, I'm currently making a tool for maya, and I wanted to level up my UI appearances.

I'm wondering how can I create a custom panel like this one, specially the main header with bigger and bolder fonts, different font types, custom buttons/icons, image previews...

Is there any documentation out there on this? Thank you.

[Kahylan]

Hi!

I'm not sure how much you can do using MEL, but you should find information to what you can and can't do in this doc:

https://download.autodesk.com/us/maya/2010help/Commands/cat_Windows.html

If it is a python program, the Library that is mostly used to created custom panels/UI Elements is "QT.Widgets".

https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/widget-classes.html

I hope this helps!

[g2m.agent · Accepted solution]

This plugin should be written in Python, so its UI should be written in Pyside2. Maya has Pyside2 built in.

You can refer to this:
https://help.autodesk.com/view/MAYAUL/2022/ENU/?guid=Maya_SDK_Maya_Python_API_Working_with_PySide_in...

and you have to learn the Qt framework yourself.