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Installing the Shelf and Tools Is Easy!
To install the Stop Staring shelf and scripts, simply copy files from the CD onto your com-
puter. You need to find two locations on your computer, your shelves directory and your
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scripts directory. Typically, these locations are in your My Documents folder under the
version subfolder in your Maya folder. Most of you will be looking in 
/My Documents/maya/
8.5/prefs/shelves/
, which is where you want to copy the 
ss2_shelf.mel
file from the CD
resources. Copy all the rest of the scripts into in 
/My Documents/maya/8.5/scripts/
. To be
absolutely sure, in the Script Editor or the command line, enter this tiny MEL script:
internalVar -ush
will tell you where to put the shelf, and 
internalVar -usd
will tell you
where to put the scripts. It’ll give you a little readout of the directories you should drop
things in.