Objects as Strings (mel) ?
Christopher.
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I’d suggest you have a glance at this book, it covers both basics and advanced use of MEL, and is a good introduction to programming with Maya overall.
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Christopher.
On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 12:53:21 PM UTC-4, Marcus Ottosson wrote:
The american site seems to have more favourable reviews.
On 12 June 2015 at 17:51, Marcus Ottosson <konstr...@gmail.com> wrote:
I’d suggest you have a glance at this book, it covers both basics and advanced use of MEL, and is a good introduction to programming with Maya overall.
On 12 June 2015 at 17:34, Christopher. <crestchr...@gmail.com> wrote:
Do you not make objects as strings in MEL ? For example;string $one = "pSphere1";string $two = "pCube1";Or just alone var as such; $one = "pSphere1";
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On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 1:21 PM Christopher. <crestchr...@gmail.com> wrote:
I have documentation on MEL. Did you read this book ? The book comes across as though you are calling me stupid ? ;-) A ten plus year old book still costs almost $60, and the kindle is the same. I suppose I should know a little C++ if I get this book.
I highly doubt Marcus was trying to insult your intelligence by suggesting a book. He is one of the most helpful members of this group.
The intent, as I saw it, was to offer you ways to improve your foundation in programming. We are all happy to help with questions, but we can't always teach from scratch when there are tons of resources to get a baseline in Mel or python. But if you ask very clear detailed questions, you will get clear and detailed answers (hopefully)
In the meantime, instead of me waiting to buy a book, if I buy the book, someone willing to give me a clue on what I'm doing wrong, yes I may ask novice questions, I do appreciate the help.
On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 12:53:21 PM UTC-4, Marcus Ottosson wrote:
The american site seems to have more favourable reviews.
On 12 June 2015 at 17:51, Marcus Ottosson <konstr...@gmail.com> wrote:
I’d suggest you have a glance at this book, it covers both basics and advanced use of MEL, and is a good introduction to programming with Maya overall.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Maya-Programming-Extensive-Kaufmann/dp/1558608354
On 12 June 2015 at 17:34, Christopher. <crestchr...@gmail.com> wrote:
Do you not make objects as strings in MEL ? For example;
string $one = "pSphere1";
string $two = "pCube1";
Or just alone var as such; $one = "pSphere1";
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Justin Israel wrote:
On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 1:21 PM Christopher. <crestchr...@gmail.com
<mailto:crestchr...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I have documentation on MEL. Did you read this book ? The book
comes across as though you are calling me stupid ? ;-) A ten plus
year old book still costs almost $60, and the kindle is the same.
I suppose I should know a little C++ if I get this book.
I highly doubt Marcus was trying to insult your intelligence by
suggesting a book. He is one of the most helpful members of this gro up.
The intent, as I saw it, was to offer you ways to improve your
foundation in programming. We are all happy to help with questions,
but we can't always teach from scratch when there are tons of
resources to get a baseline in Mel or python. But if you ask very
clear detailed questions, you will get clear and detailed answers
(hopefully)
In the meantime, instead of me waiting to buy a book, if I buy the
book, someone willing to give me a clue on what I'm doing wrong,
yes I may ask novice questions, I do appreciate the help.
On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 12:53:21 PM UTC-4, Marcus Ottosson wrote:
The american site seems to have more favourable reviews.
- http://amzn.com/1558608354
O n 12 June 2015 at 17:51, Marcus Ottosson <konstr...@gmail.com
<mailto:konstr...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I’d suggest you have a glance at this book, it covers both
basics and advanced use of MEL, and is a good introduction
to programming with Maya overall.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Maya-Programming-Extensive-Kaufmann/dp/1558608354
On 12 June 2015 at 17:34, Christopher.
<crestchr... @gmail.com <mailto:crestchr...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Do you not make objects as strings in MEL ? For example;
string $one = "pSphere1";
string $two = "pCube1";
Or just alone var as such; $one = "pSphere1";
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Really, there is no reason to learn and study MEL. Just do python training.
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Really, there is no reason to learn and study MEL. Just do python training.
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On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 1:21 PM Christopher. <crestchr...@gmail.com> wrote:
I have documentation on MEL. Did you read this book ? The book comes across as though you are calling me stupid ? ;-) A ten plus year old book still costs almost $60, and the kindle is the same. I suppose I should know a little C++ if I get this book.
I highly doubt Marcus was trying to insult your intelligence by suggesting a book. He is one of the most helpful members of this group.
The intent, as I saw it, was to offer you ways to improve your foundation in programming. We are all happy to help with questions, but we can't always teach from scratch when there are tons of resources to get a baseline in Mel or python. But if you ask very clear detailed questions, you will get clear and detailed answers (hopefully)
In the meantime, instead of me waiting to buy a book, if I buy the book, someone willing to give me a clue on what I'm doing wrong, yes I may ask novice questions, I do appreciate the help.
On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 12:53:21 PM UTC-4, Marcus Ottosson wrote:
The american site seems to have more favourable reviews.
On 12 June 2015 at 17:51, Marcus Ottosson <konstr...@gmail.com> wrote:
I’d suggest you have a glance at this book, it covers both basics and advanced use of MEL, and is a good introduction to programming with Maya overall.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Maya-Programming-Extensive-Kaufmann/dp/1558608354
On 12 June 2015 at 17:34, Christopher. <crestchr...@gmail.com> wrote:
Do you not make objects as strings in MEL ? For example;
string $one = "pSphere1";
string $two = "pCube1";
Or just alone var as such; $one = "pSphere1";
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I have documentation on MEL. Did you read this book ? The book comes across as though you are calling me stupid ? ;-) A ten plus year old book still costs almost $60, and the kindle is the same. I suppose I should know a little C++ if I get this book.
In the meantime, instead of me waiting to buy a book, if I buy the book, someone willing to give me a clue on what I'm doing wrong, yes I may ask novice questions, I do appreciate the help.
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I know, I've been told this, then on the other hand, I've been told, learn both. It's a tug-of-war !
MEL isn't useful outside of Maya. You can use Python beyond just the Maya platform. And if for some reason Maya's python commands API really isn't fast enough for a given problem, then you can move to a C++ plugin.
Friday, June 12, 2015 11:44 PM
Really, there is no reason to learn and study MEL. Just do python training.
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Friday, June 12, 2015 9:21 PM
I have documentation on MEL. Did you read this book ? The book comes across as though you are calling me stupid ? ;-) A ten plus year old book still costs almost $60, and the kindle is the same. I suppose I should know a little C++ if I get this book.
In the meantime, instead of me waiting to buy a book, if I buy the book, someone willing to give me a clue on what I'm doing wrong, yes I may ask novice questions, I do appreciate the help.
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If I want to debug or create thing specific to Maya using only MEL, that is when MEL knowledge is effective. I have begun learning Python, and C++ is a nice option, I won't jump that far ahead.
Like my post a few weeks ago, whereas I asked someone to create a UI out of a script. The reason was, it is a script I will use frequently; and I understand asking the community to make UI of scripts, without me making a starting point, is ridicules, and honestly I want to know how to do it. It just was a one time thing a script in which I wanted a UI created, maybe I should have mentioned it won't be an ongoing issue rather a novice programmer asking the community if he can get just a little more finesse applied to a script.
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It's that, I have a few MEL ebook style documents, they appear informative, although I haven't read them cover to cover, what may the book have that these documents don't have, besides a price tag.
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I'm 200% with Justin on this one!If you learn maya python, you'll learn the maya guts as well as if you learn mel, plus a lot that will be usefull outside of maya. And applying this knowledge to debug/modify a mel script should be trivial, as maya python is really 99% a one to one copy of all mel commands.Don't attach yourself the mel boulder to your ankle, especially if you start programming maya, you'll regret it later (as we do in our studio, because of late adoption, you know, lack of time in pre-production, etc, etc...)This is really my 2cts, but if you poll this subject, I think you should end up with the 'go python' winning...CheersNicolas
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In other words, I can do all that I want to do or have plans to do with MEL, in Python.
Alright, I'll devote time to Python, I hope all works out. Problem is, I know a little JS, still learning and I have some problems debugging MEL, what do I do, bug you guys for help ? :-)
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Sure. We can all help each other out with specific problems. But it is likely you will have fewer situations where you will be stuck on interpreting/debugging the existing code, if you improve on foundations. As others have mentioned, since the Python and MEL command usage mirrors each other, for the most part, it should end up being mostly transparent aside from a few MEL syntax basics.
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