Using a studio wide color management .xml file

Autodesk Support

Mar 7, 2018

You can use the MAYA_COLOR_MANAGEMENT_POLICY_FILE environment variable and point to a file on your network to control these settings studio wide.

You'd want that folder to be read-only so that users can't (accidentally) modify these settings. 

This only works in case the userTransformPath points to a location that's available on the local machine, by default when you create the xml file (from Use color management policies see "Export your current color management preferences to a policy) it will point at the synColor/Shared/ folder in your project. But as the project is under a user folder (on Windows C:/Users/[your windows user name]/Document/Maya/) this will only work for the one user that created the file, any other user will not be able to find this folder and will try to write out the .xml file with an updated userTransformPath...

To resolve this set the path to <TMPDIR> in the xml file, the line should look like 


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