Hi, like the title says, is it possible to enter multi select mode, then select some edges and some faces in the viewport, then in MEL somehow store the selected edges in variable1 and store the faces in variable2.
Some notes about Maya and MEL. Like haiddasalami mentioned global proc means you can call the procedures directly but you do not get direct access to variables inside it. The variables will stay in their scope. If you define a variable in the MEL window those variables will become globals for the session. I noticed a nasty…
I want to first select all open edges, but polySelect -eb doesn't select open border edges which I have numerous on my mesh, followed by merging those edges (MEL)polySelect -eb (missing a value)? polyMergeEdge -fe
Hi! I'm not an expert, but sometime I try some stuff with mel script, I'll be happy if it help you! http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=54126 If you have some mel script request, send to me a message! ...
Not sure if you can use the tools for this, but using MEL/Python you could do it 2 ways. Add : to your search string, or use recursive flag. example in MEL ls "*:item_name" ls -r 1 "item_name"
I've found myself looking up a lot of MEL scripts lately mainly for the purpose of automating repetitive task, or just grabbing a script to make a hotkey from. It's always more difficult than it could be because I don't really understand how programming languages operate. Besides this, are there any big benefits a…