I did a fair amount on the last project I worked on where half of the work was scripting stuff in Lua and the other half was MEL. I'm currently looking at the UI stuff as I dive into the dark and scary world of writing maya plugins.
Maya7 poly tools own, no need for any secret mel scripts, also that marking menu system for modeling polys and smooth proxie is fucking ingenious. I barely have buttons on the shelf any more it's all on the right shift click.
Any baked lighting pipeline should have as much automation as possible to reduce the time spent on setup. I usually spend as much time writing scripts and integrating 3rd-party tools as I do lighting on each new project.
These are great haha. Of course, no one else will get any of this. Your moms so ugly, not even Turbosmooth with 20 iterations will fix her. Your moms so ugly, she makes Maxs script look like Angelina Jolee hahahhaha
Here is a real neat script for max that exports all meshes as different .ase files, its saves a whole load of time and means you can get it into unreal very quickly! http://www.nijnka.com/hourences/tutorials/tutorialimages/ue3modeling/keen.zip
Ive never understood the need when going to a company to learn " that companies " software preference. The only way I can see it is if they have special things they do based on program based scripts. Other then that it's all edges,verts,polys..right ?
There are are couple constraint types you can use to constrain an object to a surface. Just look in the help file (under Constraints). If none of those fit the bill, you can use a script controller, but make sure there aren't other options first.
I don't think it would be too difficult to script up a keyboard shortcut to offer a paste like feature for edit poly. But yea its kind of annoying when they take something out and refuse to remove other actual useless garbage...
um.. yeah Kismet is nice, but its not a substitute for uscript. Its more like a "lite" version for whats most used in level design and machinima. If you want to go the particle effect route, which might be the easiest and potentially only way to go without coding something, you can use kismet to spawn a particle of your…
Updated again 24th-may-21 in link, worth, music as well. Update something told me to try again! (probably going to need script help but GOT IT) https://www.artstation.com/artwork/bKR3WE fixed broken link ops, how'd that happen..