Maya – Set maya environment file
To be able to structure mel and phyton scripts in folders we need to define the maya.env file to let maya know where to look for scripts. To add a path to custom folders where we store mel scripts we open the maya.env file and add the following:
MAYA_SCRIPT_PATH = %HOMEPATH%\Documents\maya\2011-x64\scripts\rendering;
The “%HOMEPATH%” is a System path variables which refers to “\Users\{username}” in windows 7/vista and “\Documents and Settings\{username}” on win xp.
For a reference of system path varaibles see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_variable