Integration

Maya

Browse the vault, place assets in your scene, and upload what you make.

What the dock does

LoreOwl → LoreOwl Vault, from Maya's main menu. It has a Vault tab and an Upload tab.

Browse the vault

Filter by tag, sort, and page through with Load more.

Place selected

Downloads into the folder you choose and imports FBX, OBJ, COLLADA, USD and Alembic. Textures are downloaded and their path shown.

Scene files are opt-in

Importing .ma and .mb is off by default, because a scene file can run scripts. Script nodes are always turned off.

Export and upload

Exports the selection, or the whole scene if nothing is selected, as FBX, OBJ, Alembic, COLLADA or USD.

Upload the scene

Uploads the scene with the files it uses. Files the vault already has are linked, not sent again.

Files outside the folder

Left out by default. Tick Include files outside the scene's folder to send them.

Sign in once, in the app

No pairing code to type and no token to paste.

When you sign in to the LoreOwl desktop app, it writes a short-lived credential to a file in your user profile, and the Maya dock reads it. Sign out and it is removed.

No refresh token is stored, so the file only ever holds a short-lived access token
Written in one step, so a host never reads half a file
Every host integration uses the same credential, so one sign-in covers all of them

Installing it

From the Integrations page in the LoreOwl app. It finds the app's settings folder for you.

What it installs: A Maya module: loreowl and loreowl.mod in Documents\maya\<version>\modules, or under MAYA_APP_DIR if you set it.
Versions: Maya 2022 and later. Each Maya version keeps its own plug-ins, so install once per version.
Then: Restart Maya.
Open the LoreOwl menu and choose “LoreOwl Vault”.
Custom locations: Add a folder by hand, for example a portable install. Folders you add stay after a rescan.
Uninstalling: Removes only what the install added.

What it does not do

No version control or file locks in Maya. Those stay in the desktop app.
Maya can't open glTF, so .gltf and .glb assets are downloaded, not imported.
Windows only, because the desktop app that signs it in is.

Engines

LoreOwl builds these.

GodotHeadless builds, a Vault dock, analytics, the feedback form and scene checks.UnityHeadless builds for Windows, Linux and macOS, plus the Vault and analytics.Unreal EngineCooked with RunUAT for Windows and Linux, plus the Vault and analytics.

Host applications

The vault appears inside these.

BlenderBrowse the vault, place assets, upload a .blend with its media.Substance 3D PainterExport every texture set with a Painter preset and upload each map.ReaperA dockable panel that uploads a session and the media it references.KritaUpload the open document to the vault as a flattened PNG.AsepriteUpload the open sprite as a PNG, through the running LoreOwl app.HoudiniBrowse and place vault assets, export the selection, or upload the .hip with its files.3ds MaxA dock that places vault assets and uploads a .max with its bitmaps.FMOD StudioSearch the vault for audio, place it in the Audio Bin, upload what you made.