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It's wonderful gift for Maya scriptwriters.
Object oriented program in Maya means PyMel.
Am waiting for next version of PyMel as integrated part of Maya.
Help should be improved with more examples.
Search option should be provided in Help.
Subbu
Seems to be tuned for programmers and people who know how to write Python, but they seem to be making great progress in making it more accessible -- and in the meantime this feels like a can-opener to Maya's often-tight lid. I'm excited.
Everytime i try to "import pymel as pm" in maya it gives me this error:
# Error: ('invalid syntax', ('C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/My Documents/maya/8.5-x64/scripts/pymel\\ui.py', 501, 17, ' return ret if moreButtons else (ret==yes)\n'))
# Traceback (most recent call last):
# File "", line 1, in ?
# File "C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/My Documents/maya/8.5-x64/scripts/pymel\__init__.py", line 621, in ?
# from node import *
# File "C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/My Documents/maya/8.5-x64/scripts/pymel\node.py", line 17, in ?
# from core import *
# File "C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/My Documents/maya/8.5-x64/scripts/pymel\core.py", line 22, in ?
# import util, factories, node, ui, io
# File "C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/My Documents/maya/8.5-x64/scripts/pymel\ui.py", line 501
# return ret if moreButtons else (ret==yes)
# ^
# SyntaxError: invalid syntax #
this is a user error?
it's good if you're using pymel to address objects created or listed by pymel, in order to use the object-oriented design of pymel, you must ensure that the objects that you are working with are instances of pymel classes--Not always cool. It would be nice to be able to address any object in maya. i.e., this would be a great command:
ballA.tx >> ballB.sx
even if the balls were created by modelers.
A gift to humanity, lol. It converts mel to python, in my tests so far, flawlessly.
I hope to learn python better to take more advantage of the other features.
