Resources

A small list of links to help you out with Maya/MEL:

Highend3D Maya Boards
CG Talk Maya
Research Nodes (website of the previous DIA Scripting workshops)
GSAPP Maya Resources (Maya resources at Columbia)

week 1 - class material

As promised, here is the link containing all files we worked on last lecture:

http://code.google.com/p/diascripting/

You should click in Downloads, and there you'll find all the scripts and also the whole .ppt of the presentation. The scripts are all commented, so you shouldn't have any difficulties.

I'll post an announcement here as soon as we decide the date for the next class. It will be next week, probably on the weekend (saturday).

script editors

You can use Maya's own script editor, but it lacks useful features such as syntax highlighting. A dedicated script editor is recommended, specially for beginners.

Below are some good script editors which you can download and install for free:

Crimson Editor (PC)
jEdit (PC+Mac)
conTEXT (PC)
BBEdit (Mac)