Installation problems

• When I run the installer it says "No valid Maya installation was found. Please install Maya before Turtle for Maya 3.0".
• This error message happens if the maya install location is not defined in the registry. Use regedit to make sure the key "MAYA_INSTALL_LOCATION" in the registry path SOFTWARE\Alias|Wavefront\Maya\7.0\Setup\InstallPath" is set to the directory where you've installed Maya (note that 7.0 is the maya version). If you set this parameter, turtle should install nicely.
  

Removing Turtle nodes

I have finished my eval and uninstalled Turtle. Now I need to get rid of the Turtle nodes in my test files. How do I do that?

The easiest way it to run the mel commands  lockNode -lock off `ls -type unknown`; and   delete `ls -type unknown`; . These commands will first unlock all locked unknown nodes and then delete them. Turtle cannot be loaded when you do this since then the nodes aren't of the "unknown" type. Since these commands deletes all unknown nodes in the scene and aren't undoable, making a backup is strongly advised.