Wiley Maya Professional Tips and Techniques 978-0-470-10740-9 Manuale Utente

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978-0-470-10740-9

This chapter’s topics are organized
into the following techniques:

Resetting to Factory/Swapping Prefs Files

Creating Custom Shelf Icons

Building a Simple MEL Window

Building an Intermediate MEL Window

Creating an Autosave MEL Script

Creating Your Own Paint Effects Brushes

Creating Notes for Your Fellow Animators

Passing Information to Files

Industry Tip: Creating an “Expert Mode” MEL Script

Customization and
MEL Scripting

MAYA TAKES THE

lion’s share of high-end 3D work in

the feature film and visual effects industry. You can

trace this fact to one particular trait: the software

is infinitely customizable. The customization is not

restricted to multimillion-dollar productions, however.

You can customize Maya to your own tastes and

thereby work faster, more intelligently, and most

important, more comfortably. The most thorough and

powerful method of customization is the application

of MEL scripting. MEL is the underlying language on

which the entire program is built. Every single tool

and function within Maya has one or more lines of

MEL code associated with it.

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