End of line.
So the quarter is officially over, and I have left Savannah for the summer. It is always interesting coming home. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy the house I grew up in, it is just I want to be out and about and do stuff and see friends and everything, but all of my friends(except [...]
Mel final, and a “short” explanation.
So I have put up my two scripts that were the fruit of my MEL scripting class onto my site. I will offer this warning to you, they don’t completely work. Parts of them work wonderfully, others not so much. I have tried to put in as many comments as I could, though I have [...]
Overengineered
I tend to do it to make sure it can’t break. There are simpler ways. As such the particlesToCurves script works. Each time every time. Though it is overengineered. Alot. I will revisit it once the quarter is over. The point is it works.
Little late.
My update is. So as of tonight: I got a working particles to curves script working. You might be thinking, “But Sam there is already one of those on the interwebs!” I agree! But it sucks! No, it doesn’t suck but it has some major issues. All of which I was told by Ken I [...]
Curves are not nice.
So I thought I had a breakthrough today. Boy was I wrong, I found this awesome node(so I thought) called curveIntersect as well as a mel script in the maya help docs called findAllIntersections. “Oh dear god thank you” was the first thing to pass through my head. Then, I started experimenting with the node [...]
One foot forward.
So for those that don’t know, I changed my final for mel. It is now going to be a tool that dynamically(ie with particles) creates vines that wrap around any object(to a point.) I say to a point because the more I research into this and the more I think about exactly what I need [...]
Logic Brainstorm in Python
So I got done in MEL scripting early today and wrote out a brainstorm for the logic of part of my final. This is how I plan out a script and it usually makes writing the script many times easier. I forget who I was told by, but they told me if you can talk [...]
My final for MEL.
My final project is going to be a data grabber. It will help better visualize stock information as well as hold data from past days and lay it over to show trends throughout the day and weeks. It will grab data based on this tutorial(here) and put it in a file. The script will automatically [...]