Maya Programming with Python Cookbook

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Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Sections

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Chapter 1. Getting Started with Maya

Introduction

Using the script editor to investigate functionality

Running code from the script editor

Importing Maya's built-in Python functionality

Accessing documentation for a specific command

Understanding Create Query and Edit flags

Adding custom folders to your script path

Writing and running an external script

Calling a MEL script with Python

Chapter 2. Creating User Interfaces

Introduction

Making a basic window

Simple controls – making a button

Retrieving input from controls

Using classes to organize UI logic

Using nested layouts

Using tabs and scrolling

Adding menus to your UIs

Chapter 3. Working with Geometry

Introduction

Working with selected objects and checking node type

Accessing geometric data in polygonal models

Accessing geometric data in NURBS objects

Creating curves

Creating new polygonal faces

Creating new modifiers (noise)

Creating novel primitives (tetrahedron)

Chapter 4. Giving Things a Coat of Paint – UVs and Materials

Introduction

Querying UV data

Laying out UVs with Python

Creating shading networks with code

Applying shaders to objects

Using shading nodes for non-shading tasks

Chapter 5. Adding Controls – Scripting for Rigging

Introduction

Creating skeletons with script

Setting up set-driven key relationships with script

Adding custom attributes and locking and hiding attributes

Setting up inverse kinematics (IK) with script

Chapter 6. Making Things Move – Scripting for Animation

Introduction

Querying animation data

Working with animation layers

Copying animation from one object to another

Setting keyframes

Creating expressions via script

Chapter 7. Scripting for Rendering

Introduction

Creating and editing lights

Creating GUI to control all lights

Creating cameras from code

Rendering a sprite sheet

Chapter 8. Working with File Input/Output

Introduction

Using the fileDialog2 command to navigate the file system

Reading text files

Writing text files

Writing binary data

Reading binary data

Reading multiple types of files

Chapter 9. Communicating with the Web

Introduction

Opening a web page from script

Grabbing data from a server

Working with XML data

Working with JSON data

Sending POST data to a web server from Maya

Chapter 10. Advanced Topics

Introduction

Wrapping Python functionality in MEL

Creating custom tools using contexts

Using script jobs to trigger custom functionality

Using script nodes to embed code in scenes

Combining script jobs and script nodes