Metahuman plugin for Maya fails to load - looks like wrong version of Python

turns out the problem was 2-fold. One, was trying to use in on 2024 which isn’t officially supported. On maya 2022 it still failed to load. Tracked down the issue to _load_required_plugins in DHIPluginLoader. Changed
try:
from modules.maya.util import MayaUtil
from modules.file.handler import FileHandler
from modules.maya.about import AboutEnv
import platform
platform = _resolve_platform()

to

try:
from DHI.modules.maya.util import MayaUtil
from DHI.modules.file.handler import FileHandler
from DHI.modules.maya.about import AboutEnv
import platform
platform = _resolve_platform()

This got it working in maya 2022.

in 2024 I hit a wall with compiled python, so there’s nothing I can do there until Unreal officially supports Maya 2024

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