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Customize Menus

How to customize menus using .menu files in Asset Transformer Studio plugins
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Last updated 16 hours ago

Reorder menus using
.menu
files.

Set up

  1. Create a
    menus
    subfolder at your plugin's root folder, next to
    plugin.xml
    .
  2. Create a new file with the .menu extension.
    You can add as many .menu files as you like.
    Icons can be added by adding a .png file to the
    icons
    subfolder, see the Toolbar section.

Syntax

Menu creation and positioning

  1. Create a new menu, position it before an existing one:
    <menu name="Sample" before="Scene"> … </menu>
    Or edit an existing menu:
    <menu name="Scene"> … </menu>
  2. Create a submenu:
    <menu name="Sample" before="Scene"> <subMenu name="Pixyz"> … </subMenu> </menu>
  3. Add separators:
    … <separator/> …

Function entries

  • Add the main plugin function and change its displayed name:
    <action function="SampleFunction" displayName="Sample Function"/>
  • Add existing functions from other modules:
    <action module="Algo" function="tessellate"/>
  • Hide existing functions:
    <action module="Algo" function="decimateTarget" hidden="true"/>
Note
The function will be hidden in its original menu.

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      • Menu creation and positioning

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