Digital Tutors - Getting Started with MEL in Maya

Duration 1h 43m

Difficulty Level Beginner

Project Files Included

Software used

Autodesk Maya 2014

What you will learn

Welcome to this tutorial designed to get you up to speed with MEL scripting.

We'll start by learning basic MEL syntax for printing code for command responses and running Maya commands. We'll then learn how to create variables, work with various types and concatenations.

We'll even learn how to create arrays, 'for' loops, and windows so that we can get comfortable with building tools of our own, that we, and other artists can utilize to be more efficient inside of Maya.

By the end of this tutorial, you will have the foundation you need to work comfortably with MEL.

1. Introduction and project overview 00:52

2. Your first MEL script 06:47

3. Running Maya commands in MEL 08:12

4. Specifying flag values in MEL commands 03:08

5. Transforming objects with MEL 07:08

6. Using MEL commands that are designed to work a certain way 09:52

7. Variables 07:12

8. Concatenating your code 04:47

9. Creating arrays 10:46

10. Working with 'for' loops 09:16

11. Changing the properties of items inside of a 'for' loop 03:40

12. Creating our object alignment tool 07:14

13. Building a window for our object aligner 08:37

14. Preventing the duplication of windows 05:49

15. Generating objects along the CVs of a curve 10:16