Discover creative alternative uses for MEL. Learn Maya Embedded Language (MEL) with an artist-driven approach and add greater flexibility in your workflow. Contains over 4 hours of intuitive project-based training. Ideal for artists new to MEL.
Popular highlights include:
* Creating if/for Loops
* Storing Scripts as Procedures
* Sourcing and Executing
* Multi-line MEL Scripts
* Opening External Applications with MEL
* Building Custom Marking Menus
* Variable Naming Conventions
* Understanding Variable Types
* Building an Incremental Save Script
* Concatenating Strings and Integers
* Get Attributes into Variables
* Using If Statements
* Expressions in Expression Editor
* Creating ScriptNodes
* Accessing Array Contents
* Building User Interfaces
* Building Custom Tools
* Using Match and Substitute Strings
Lesson Outline:
1. Introduction and project overview 0:57
2. My First MEL Command 5:14
3. Feedback using the Command Response 4:33
4. First look at the Script Editor and multi-line code 9:41
5. Shelves and MEL 4:38
6. Launching Photoshop from Maya 4:57
7. Creating custom Marking Menus 6:21
8. Building a custom application for saving files 5:47
9. Understanding Variables and how to use them 5:55
10. Understanding Float and String variables 6:55
11. Building the Incremental QuickSave 6:38
12. Setting attributes with MEL 7:24
13. Getting attributes with MEL 8:06
14. Checking attributes with If Statements 7:04
15. Expressions 9:25
16. Script Nodes 11:08
17. Arrays 8:12
18. Dealing with Selections 10:44
19. Building custom User Interface windows 19:39
20. Coding the procedure for Keyframing 11:18
21. Integrating a procedure with your custom UI 10:10
22. Other types of “for” loops 13:10
23. Using Arrays to build a tail 10:36
24. Using the file name in the Incremental QuickSave 8:14
25. Identifying the Iteration Number 8:27
26. Fixing a looping script 5:05
27. Adding color attributes to drive lights 12:11
28. Bonus Lesson: using Python inside of Maya 5:38
29. Bonus Lesson: using variables in Python 5:02
30. Bonus Lesson: using MEL inside of a Python script 7:42
Software: Maya 8.5 or higher
Run Time: 4 hrs., 1 disc
Download:
http://rapidshare.com/files/227488284/Digital_Tutors_-_The_Artist_s_Guide_To_Mel.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/227544667/Digital_Tutors_-_The_Artist_s_Guide_To_Mel.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/227521358/Digital_Tutors_-_The_Artist_s_Guide_To_Mel.part3.rar
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thanks man good stuff
thank you.can u give me the advance mel script tutorial please
This is a good post, I was wondering if I could use this blog post on my website, I will link it back to your website though. If this is a problem please let me know and I will take it down right away.
The rapidshare link is broken…