Continue Fluids...

Complete Wispy and Oily smoke tutorials tonight.

Only HW due Wed is Flamethrower

Flamethrower is Due by Wed midnight, email me the playblast or animation you have posted on youtube.

Wed night class is a walk.

Particle Tutorial

Last Chance to submit your slag movie.

In Class tonight we will step through Fluids via Gnomon.

http://aii.gnomonlibrary.com.ai.libproxy.edmc.edu/training/tutorial/370

Balloon Homework

Homework Due next class:

Last chance to turn in your slag movie!

a playblast and show me your Maya scene of your animated Balloon popping.

11/12/2012

Turn in your movie!


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Instructor Share coding experience:

Python:
mkmovie
remote animators in production tool
submission plugins tool (AE to RR)

Mel:
select and render specific geo with the rest a hold out (background shader)
fairy dust


What is MEL?

Maya Embedded Language = MEL

Now most scripting is done in pyMel


MEL is what is written to a .ma file.

Solve a simple problem:
We want a light to flicker

How do we do that?

light1.intensity = noise(time)*0.1+1.6;

How do we make a 1x1 box?  sphere? with MEL?

Syntax, ':' <object>.<attribute>

What does the mod operator do?


MEL:
What is a variable? why do we need them?

strings
int
float

Declare Var:
string $myName = "<myName>";
int $myAge = <age>
float $myHeight = <hight in inches>

Declare Array:
string $drawer[];
$drawer[0] = ?
$drawer[1] = ?
print $drawer;

string $allInScene[] = `ls`;

string $onlySelected[] = `ls -sl`;


Rand:
rand(-300,500);

Key all your cubes

For Loop:

string $objects[] = `ls -sl`;
print $objects;

for ($singleObj in $objects)
{
    float $rx = rand(-30-30);
    float $ry = rand(-30-30);
    float $rz = rand(-30-30);

    move -a $rx $ry $rz $singleObj;
}


move forward in time: key all your cubes

Flags:

polyCube -w 5 -h 2 -d 1 -sx 1 -sy 1 -sz 1 -ax 010 -ch 1;


Show:

• Create a shelf button from the Script Editor

Class: Model a stone

How to Execute others MEL scripts

Download rockGen.mel

source rockGen File, launch rockGen

Comp your rendered frames today

Comp your rendered frames today