MentalImages Awesome, Mental images have released a spec on there new metasl shading language. Its already integrated into mr 3.7 but will not be supported in maya till the 2010 version released a siggraph this year. My hope is that we will not have to wait for the first maya service pack to roll out [...]
I have wondered for a while about what scripts maya loads when it starts up. Its always intrigued me and i had some spare time today so i wrote a quite python script to help. Ta-da! Here are the scripts maya sources on start up: /scripts/startup/initialLayout.mel /scripts/others/setDefaultTemplates.mel /scripts/startup/initCommandWindow.mel /scripts/startup/initMainWindow.mel /scripts/startup/UIComponents.mel /scripts/startup/initContexts.mel /scripts/others/flyThroughContextSetup.mel /scripts/startup/animationStartup.mel /scripts/startup/initAttributeEditor.mel /scripts/others/showEditor.mel [...]
I seem to answer the same few messages ever week on the autodesk forums. So my plan for the next few weeks is to go through all my note books and try and put up answers for all the fun render errors that mentalray produces.
So i wrote this quickly for my girlfriend who is an Xsi Modeler.Its one of the many tools she misses. /*********************************************************************** Title: faceLoopSelection.mel Description: quick script to mimic xsi”s face loop selection tool. select 2 edges in the same loop to get the face loop Author: Kym Watts (watts(Dot)kym(At)gmail(Dot)[Com]) ***********************************************************************/ proc faceLoopSelection() { polySelectEdges edgeRing; [...]