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{- Requires Maya 2022+ -}
Download the source code from here
Copy the tetris_maya folder into your maya script folder
- Win:
%USERPROFILE%\maya\<MAYA_VERSION>\prefs\scripts - Lnx:
~/maya/<MAYA_VERSION>/prefs/scripts
As the project is build as a package, you also can install it using mayapy and pip.
- Win:
mayapy.exe -m pip install tetris-maya --extra-index-url https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/5153531/packages/pypi/simple --target %USERPROFILE%\Documents/maya\<MAYA_VERSION>\prefs\scripts - Lnx:
mayapy -m pip install tetris-maya --extra-index-url https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/5153531/packages/pypi/simple --target ~/maya/<MAYA_VERSION>/prefs/scripts
A backport of the game for Maya 2017-2020 is available in the backport-27 branch.
Download the source code from here,
then copy the tetris_maya folder into your maya script folder.
If you want to use the alternative installation, replace the package name tetris-maya by tetris-maya-backport.
{- This backport was partially made using automatic converters, so it may be unstable or crash. -}
In the script editor:
import tetris_maya
tetris_maya.install_shelf()| Action | Key |
|---|---|
| Left | Left Arrow |
| Right | Right Arrow |
| Soft Drop | Down Arrow |
| Hard Drop | Space |
| Rotate Left | Z |
| Rotate Right | Up Arrow |
| Hold | C |
They're here mostly for curiosity purpose and to see my evolution along the years.
This is the original version I made for a school project, back in 2016. The only instruction given by my teacher was "Entertain me.". I just started python very recently at the time, and we had barely a week to give him something. So with my student innocence, I tell myself:
Hey, why not try to replicate a tetris game and make it playable, what could possibly go wrong ? 🤡
Turns out, not much sleep, but a very good grade and a lot learned along the way.
Due to technical limitations, it runs only on Maya 2016 or lower.
This is due to major changes in the 2017 version, when Autodesk upgrades from Qt4 to Qt5.
On old Maya versions, even if a code loop was running, we were still able to catch hotkey without any additional thread.
This version is almost a complete rewrite, made in 2018. The primary goal of this one was to make it playable on Maya 2017-2020.
The major challenge was to find a way to catch the keyboard while the code was running in the main thread of Maya. My knowledge of PySide2 and threading in general was quite limited, so I choose to use an external catcher that rely on Pynput. Obviously, this was a big drawback, as now it needed a dependency to run correctly.
I also made a demo of this version:
And again, another big rewrite. But why go back on this project after another 4 years ? Well, there are three reasons:
First: Maya finally uses Python 3.7+, so it's an occasion to rewrite the project using more modern syntax and keep learning while doing it.
Second: I still wanted to get rid of Pynput, and made it completely dependency-free. This part actually took a lot of thinking and a big change on the game loop architecture.
Finally, the most important one, I wanted to share it 😃 Until now, I wasn't comfortable enough to publish the code, mostly because I find it ugly. Also, there were technical concerns, the V1 was unusable due to its age, and the V2 was too hard to install for the average user.