MEL – Barish Chandran

Clean Namespaces (MEL Function)

Change Camera Marking Menu

This is a small tips for clear all namespaces in the maya scene. First copy the script bellow and save it as “bc_CleanAllNameSpace.mel” in any of your user script folder. Or you can download the script from here

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Syntax Highlighter 3.1.3 for WordPress Laguage includes MEL

SyntaxHighlighter Evolved allows you to easily post syntax-highlighted code to your site without losing it’s formatting or making any manual changes. It uses the SyntaxHighlighter JavaScript package by Alex Gorbatchev.

I included MEL(Maya embedded language) inside this package. It is simple to put mel codes in your post with syntax highlighing.

[mel]

global proc string bcFileName()
{
$bcFileName = file -q -sn -shn;
if($bcFileName == “”)
return “Untitled Scene”;

return $bcFileName;

[/mel]

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Change Camera Marking Menu (Mel Function)

Change Camera Marking Menu

This is a small tips for making marking menu for changing cameras easily. First copy the script bellow and save it as “bc_ChangeCam.mel” in any of your user script folder. Or you can download the script from here
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bc_ReverseList (Mel Functions)

This is a simple function to reverse string array in mel.

global proc string[] bc_ReverseList(string $bcInputList[])
{
string $bcOutputList[];
for($bcItem in $bcInputList)
{
stringArrayInsertAtIndex(0, $bcOutputList, strip($bcItem));
}
return $bcOutputList;
}

global proc string[] bc_ReverseList(string $bcInputList[])

{

string $bcOutputList[];

for($bcItem in $bcInputList)

{

stringArrayInsertAtIndex(0, $bcOutputList, strip($bcItem));

}

return $bcOutputList;

}

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Maya-Cutter Integration For MEL Scripting

This is a small tip for mel newbies to use cutter. Cutter is a worderfull text editor developed by Mr. Malcolm Kesson. it is very usefull for those who are useing Pixar’s Render Man. It helps a lot in Renderman Shader Development. Cutter supports number of languages like Python, MEL, RSL, Rib, TCL, Shake, MI(Mental Images), Batch…and lot. I am planning to add more MEL tutorials uses cutter.