Scripting In Maya!!!

February 5, 2012 at 9:23 am (Uncategorized)

Alright! This time is Scripting!!!!! Kind of hard to believe that there is actually programming in Maya 0_0”

Ok ok…So, this is the website of where I will learn scripting in Maya:

http://download.autodesk.com/us/maya/Maya2012_Getting_Started/index.html

From there, I have done from lesson one to lesson four.

So….here’s from the Second lesson: (the first is just an introduction)

For this lesson, I am suppose to create lights by scripting!!! Here’s the result!

And below are a few screenshots of me playing with the lights:

From the above exercise, I am suppose to apply it to a cone, the script in Maya allow us to be able to save it on the shelf in Maya,

And so, here’s the result!!!

Before:

After:

This allow us create the same lightings without needing to write in the script editor again!

For the next exercise,  I have created this:

This exercise actually caused me a lot time due to the fact that it kept on giving me this error:

I was almost to the point of giving up *_* as I kept on redoing and redoing. However thanks to Lyo, one of my classmates, I manage to solve the problem!!!

It was during when I am duplicating the barrels to form the top row, and the tutorial told us to delete the extra barrels:(highlighted ones)

But for some reason, even when I deleted the extra from the top rows, there was another row of barrels at the top. This is where the problem start, I simply delete the yet another extras of barrels, without checking if there are any more extra barrels. So, this actually causes the top barrel, instead of one barrel, have two barrels.

For the Last lesson,

I have to create a UI window to affect whatever I want to affect.(Does that even make sense?)

Firstly ,this tutorial teaches me to create this and to move it along the plane:

From this, I created the UI to be able to influence this:

and so, here’s a playblast of it working!!: