Course
Skills Expanded
Introduction to MEL
Boost your productivity and learn MEL in over 2.5 hours of interactive training. Software required: Maya 6 or higher
What you'll learn
Boost your productivity and learn MEL in over 2.5 hours of interactive training. Perfect for new and beginning users. Popular highlights include: Overview of MEL; MEL Commands; Controlling and Adjusting Attributes; Flow of Execution; Loops; Variable & Data Types; MEL Interfaces; Custom Shader Networks. Software required: Maya 6 or higher
Table of contents
Introduction and Project Overview
4mins
Introduction to MEL
166mins
- Understanding Syntax 7m
- Using the Shelf and Marking Menus 9m
- Working with a Node's Attributes 14m
- Working with Variables 12m
- Working with While Loops 12m
- Working with for Loops 3m
- Creating Global Procedures 9m
- Creating a User Interface (UI) 13m
- Creating a Script to Remove Attributes 10m
- Building a UI for the Attribute Remover Script 10m
- Building a Shape of the First Flower Petal 11m
- Creating Loops for Rows of Cv's 9m
- Creating the Flower Core 4m
- Creating the Rest of the Petals 9m
- Using Switch, Case and if Statements 7m
- Creating Shader Networks with MEL 11m
- Connecting Shader to Petals 4m
- Building and Connecting the Core Shaders 5m
- Adding Randomness to the Flowers 5m
