Installing Wig

Hardware Requirements

  • x86-64 processor
  • 5 GB disk space available
  • At least 8 GB RAM (16 GB or more recommended)
  • Nvidia Graphics card with at least 6 GB of video memory and driver support for OpenGL 2.0 and CUDA 11 (Drivers 525.x recommended).

Installing Wig packages

Debian:

sudo apt install ./wig<version number>.x86_64.deb

RPM:

sudo rpm -i ./wig-<version number>x86_64.rpm

Load Source

In order to load Wig, ensure you source the appropriate environment setup script before launching Maya

This source needs to be run each time before launching Maya, in order for Wig to show in the Plug-in Manager

Note

Source needs to be run in separate Terminal windows for each version of Maya or the source may conflict with one another.

Examples:

Maya 2023

source /opt/Unity/WetaTools/wig/<version_number>/maya_plat_2023/mayausd_plat_0.16.0/usd_plat_2111/vfx_plat_2022/wig_setup

Maya 2022

source /opt/Unity/WetaTools/wig/<version_number>/maya_plat_2022/mayausd_plat_0.8.0/usd_plat_2011/vfx_plat_2020/wig_setup

source /opt/Unity/WetaTools/wig/<version_number>/maya_plat_2022/mayausd_plat_0.8.0/usd_plat_2011/vfx_plat_2019/wig_setup

An example version number is 2023.07.04.

Automatically loading source

You can add the source command to your .bashrc or .zshrc. This only needs to be done once and after restarting Terminal, it will automatically source for you. This will work for a specific version of Maya and cannot work to load wig in all supported version of Maya at the same time.

Loading Wig in Maya

Ensure you run the appropriate source as noted above. Then launch Maya (for example, /usr/autodesk/<maya_version>/bin/maya).

Load Wig via the Windows menu > Settings/Preferences > Plug-in Manager.

Loading Wig in Houdini

To load Wig USD files in Houdini, source the appropriate environment setup script before launch.

source /opt/Unity/WetaTools/wig/<version_number>/houdini_plat_19.5/vfx_plat_2020/wig_setup

An example version number is 2023.07.04.

Then launch Houdini via: /opt/hfs<houdini_version>/bin/houdini

Example: /opt/hfs19.5.368/bin/houdini

Uninstalling Wig

Debian:

sudo apt remove wig

RPM:

sudo rpm -e wig