Problem loading Omniverse plugin in Maya 2020 on Windows

Omniverse General Discussion
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The plugin shows up in the plugin manager, but when I try to load I get this error:

// Error: Omniverse Error: fails to load OmniverseMayaPlugin. //
// Error: file: C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2020/scripts/others/pluginWin.mel line 317: initializePlugin function failed (OmniverseMayaLoader) //

Plugin version 100.1.26 and 100.2.1
Maya version: 2020.2

I can load the plugin ok in Maya 2019.2

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Hello,
We do support Maya 2020.2 so I do expect it to install cleanly. Let’s see if we can see what’s happening. I have a couple questions to help me narrow down what’s happening…

  1. Is there more information in your MayaPlugin.log? You can find it in your user documents folder /Omnvierse/Maya
  2. Lets see if there is a plug in conflict. Do you have any other plugin currently installed on Maya 2020.2? If so can you toggle those off before trying to load the Omniverse plugin?
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I also use Maya 2020.2 and it loads well. There could be some DLL conflicts with other third party plug-in in Maya 2020. Maybe you can try to not load some other third party plug-ins and try again.
Because it loads well with Maya 2019, it could be some plugin special in Maya 2020.2.

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Thanks for the pointers. Turns out there was a conflict with another plugin, and that plugin was Maya’s own USD plugin. If I uninstall that then I can load the Omniverse plugin and USD import works ok.

The Maya plugin does not ship with Maya, I believe I got it from here:

I guess this means I no longer need that Maya github plugin? Does the Omniverse plugin build on top of that plugin, which is why it has the name conflict?

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Thank you, we’ll look into the conflict. The Omniverse plugin does not build directly on the Autodesk one currently.

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I have the same issue when loading the omniverse maya connector plugin. I don’t have the USD plugin installed, and I uninstalled (unload) all other plugins (even the default ones), still failing the initialization of the omniverse plugin in maya. My maya version is 2020.4