Eager Beaver Newbie scripting and plugin question.

# 1 21-02-2012 , 08:42 PM

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Eager Beaver Newbie scripting and plugin question.

I am new to Maya as well as the SimplyMaya community and I am excited to contribute and participate.

I have a question for starter. I love programming and would like to know about building plugins and Python & MEL scripts.

I have searched around but I can't find anything that directly relates to learning the language and produres for developing scripts and plugins.

I suppose it may be intuitive to only build plugins & scripts after you have developed a specific function within a Maya Project, but I thought I would see if there is anything that anyone can share regarding this matter.

Plus I wanted to test the input features of this forum.

Thank You and I hope to make collaborators here at SimplyMaya

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# 2 21-02-2012 , 10:33 PM

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. When I started learning MEL, I found that unless I had a specific task and rummaged around for commands related to it, I easily forgot whatever I thought I grasped. The abstract how to's didn't work for me.

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# 3 22-02-2012 , 01:46 AM

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Agreed with Genny, you gotta do it and do it regularly to learn. Pick a simple task and try to get a script going for it. Use the help menus, google, and ask here when you get stuck.

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# 4 22-02-2012 , 02:42 AM

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I learned in production. Seeing a common problem, and implementing a way to fix it. A good way to learn in the beginning is rip apart others scripts, and piece them together. Look through the documentation to patch certain holes, etc.

Maya also output's the MEL command for most operations in the script editor when performed. This is a great help when you need to piece things together quickl.y

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