Conversational MEL Part 3

TurntableIn this article we'll introduce the MEL command docs, reveal a couple new and exciting ways to use MEL commands, and get a little deeper in to the foundation of solid MEL UI.
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 29 November 2006 )
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Conversational MEL Part 2

Todays Special: hotdogIn this tutorial we’re going to break out of our monkey-see-monkey-do prison, and write a script from scratch. By the end you will have written your very own mass-object-renaming-search-and-replace script! Once done this script will examine any selected objects looking for a word you specify. When found it will rename the object by replacing the specified word with something else.
Last Updated ( Friday, 20 October 2006 )
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Per-Particle Radial Fields

Radial Field ThumbnailIn this quick tutorial we'll go through the steps of creating a per-particle radial field - this effect can be used to simulate inter-particle collisions or simply to keep particles away from each other.
Last Updated ( Saturday, 19 August 2006 )
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Conversational MEL Part 1

MEL Intro ThumbnailThis is the first of several tutorials on MEL. We’ll be starting from the very beginning with this article, and quickly picking up speed in the future. By the end of this article you will have learned what a MEL command is and how to interpret its different parts, how to quickly automate simple tasks using MEL, and, finally, how to build a small piece of custom UI.

Last Updated ( Friday, 20 October 2006 )
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