I post this now as a warning, and perhaps for you to all laugh at my pain. I, for a reason I will never know, chose not to import my ME1 character when I played ME2. I just booted up ME3 and went to load my character from ME2, should be no problem right? Well, then it tells me that I basically did absolutely everything…
Hey guys I'm switching back to maya from max. Last time I was using maya was back in 2008 and the only mel script that I used was mjpolytools. I was wondering if there were any new very uselful mel scripts(modeling/UVing) that I should get. For example in max "textools" is an amazing script that I can't live without. Thanks
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 was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of some good tutorials or possibly give me some tips on how to set up a spinal stretchy rig. However, the method I'm really interested in and looking for has the rig being set up through mell scripts. I was also curious if there is anyway to limit an object's…
MEL ARCANE Cinematic shot with animation lighting My latest work is fan art of MEL from ARCANE. Mel is one of my favorite character from the show. It was really challenging but it was also very fun to create. There is an article post you can read the…
Haven't written anything inside Maya for a while but if I recall you can use eval() function. http://help.autodesk.com/cloudhelp/2017/CHS/Maya-Tech-Docs/CommandsPython/eval.html "This function takes a string which contains MEL code and evaluates it using the MEL interpreter. The result is converted into a Python data type…
I've gotten really interested in the fur via alpha mapped dots: example from bobo And I was wondering if there is any way, within maya, to take some paint effects grass or fur, place 3 or 4 planes bisecting the grass/fur and run a MEL script to say "wherever a blade of grass/fur passes through a plane, render a cross…
Most people trying to get into scripting in Maya (or of any kind really) usually have a big problem knowing where to start. Yes, you have the official documentation here: http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/maya2013/en_us/Commands/ ...but just going with that is like getting an English-Mandarin dictionary and then…
Yeah I know we do not need a compiler for running mel script but ... :) Here is my workflow when I create mel script : - I have a set of mel file where I will drop all my basic functions I will use for custom tool (Bottom level) - I have another set of mel file for common//tools still low level but cannot be insert in the…