MEL Scripting in Maya

Catalog description

The course will cover the process of using Maya Embedded Language to manipulate and animate characters, objects, and object interactions into a complete animation scenario. MEL scripting incorporates traditional programming constructs such as loops, conditionals, functions, expressions, and nodes. In addition to traditional constructs this course will introduce specific animation and gaming constructs such as particle dynamics control, user input selection dialogs, solid body dynamics, and crowd systems.