Questions yet again!!!!

February 7, 2012 at 6:36 am (Uncategorized)

Sooooo, I really seems to like using “Soooo”, don’t I? Anyways, After so much scripting, questions are bound to come sooner or later haha, and here they are!!!

1st Question –

Imagine you are creating a scene where a car drives along a straight road, but swerves around at random as if the driver is drunk. Do you think it would be useful to know how to program using MEL when creating this scene? Explain.

Well, of course it would important!!! Do you even know how hard it do keep on doing key frame by key frame?? It would drive you nuts thats for sure @_@. Programming in Maya using MEL will surely help in this part of the aspects. We do not actually have to make key poses and frames (Me: Merlin Forbid, I could die with all this work), we simply need to program it so that it will move in a way we wanted and scrub through the timeline to view the results without any key frames. This is similar to the zombie file I did in the previous posts.

2nd Question – 

For the drunken car scene, give TWO advantages and disadvantages (pros and cons) of using scripting to create the swerving car animation.

The two advantages would be that, I will not have to make key frames by frames as I have stated earlier, and that if you wanted to change the attributes, like making the car go faster, it will be easily done. On the other hand, while it is easily used, the outcome might not be as good as if you have done frame by frame, Maya will only be able to do the basic. Also, because of the script as well as the moment the timeline is scrubbed through, the animation will keep on playing it, continuing from where it stop, we might not be able to spot the mistakes and we are also unable to change the animation to how we wanted as it was programmed to continue on, which could be very frustrating as Maya will do its own programming, without caring what you want. The animation also can’t be changed easily due to the fact that there are no key frames.

3rd Question –

You might think that programming using MEL is similar to using ALICE (in Year 1). It is actually very different. Explain TWO of the main differences, as far as you can tell.

Mama Mia!!! I had totally forgotten that Alice existed!!! Errr…….well, as far as I can remember, I was told that Alice is actually for beginners, using only “For Loops” and “While Loops”, calculating the distance and all that stuff, also, the characters are not able to move as freely as it did in Maya. Ya…..I think thats about it?……Don’t look at me like that alright? Its not I could remember all those stuff, I even tried to search it!!! But it kept on giving me results on Alice in Wonderland!!!!!

Sooooo,(here we go again), after all these exercises on Scripting in Maya, I have learnt that even Maya have Scripting!(DUH!) As I only though that Maya is only used for animation. I also believe that scripting in Maya is also quite similar to flash scripting!!! (which is probably why we had to learn flash first). Thats is the POWER of Scripting haha.

And this is me over and out haha see you soon!!!