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Python scripts are great, they are even better when we can click a button to run them. A small GUI like the image shown (“Do it!” Button) can be very easy to set up.<\/p>\n
Thanks to neil3d.com<\/a>‘s UI Builder Tool, this was valuable in creating a setup script that I could dissect and learn from. His website<\/a> is a great source of information.<\/p>\n Below I will go over how I learned to set up a Python script that will launch from a button click in MotionBuilder.<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Python scripts are great, they are even better when we can click a button to run them. A small GUI like the image shown (“Do it!” Button) can be very easy to set up. Thanks to neil3d.com‘s UI Builder Tool, this was valuable in creating a setup script that I could dissect and learn from. 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