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1. Maya Mel Script Help

   

   Topic by Evohc · Oct 2014 · Home› Technical Talk

   Eh all, So, my knowledge with mel scripting is very limited but I figured out the basics of the script at the bottom of this link http://ndhaussy.free.fr/maya_object_spreading/ where Nicolas shows how to spread using constraints. So I type the command spreadObjectsOnSurface ("objectB", "objectA", 20) and it works as…

2. Re: Maya Mel Script Help

   

   Reply by AdvisableRobin · Oct 2014 · Home› Technical Talk

   Recursion would be a solution, especially if you wanted to repeat that process a ton of times, but would also be complicated for someone new to programming. What you want to look into is called an Array, which is a variable that can store multiple 'data types'(including obejcts in the scene, numbers, letters, etc.) and…

3. Re: Maya Mel Script Help

   

   Reply by Evohc · Oct 2014 · Home› Technical Talk

   ^ Yah, maybe. Basically I want the command to tell Maya that for objectB1 to objectB20, duplicate 6 objectC on each. If I'm making sense. I'll look up recursion, but any more help someone might have would also be great, thanks!

4. Re: Maya Mel Script Help

   

   Reply by Deadly Nightshade · Oct 2014 · Home› Technical Talk

   Are you talking about recursion perhaps?

5. Re: Maya Mel Script Help

   

   Reply by Evohc · Oct 2014 · Home› Technical Talk

   Thanks :)