Maya Tutorials

This tutorial was updated in May 2014.   There are many choices when it comes to deciding on an IDE.  At the time when I decided on Eclipse (back in 2005) I needed an editor that could do the following: useable across multiple platforms supported programming in Python, C++, mel...

User Interfaces has been around for decades. For a while we had been using text input UI’s. There was a huge following for the voice-activated UI’s. But the most prevalent and most used UI is the graphic UI. People have been reinventing it ever since it’s first conception. So much so that...

PLUMBER TUTORIAL The Snowfight Sample Project It is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED that all users complete the tutorial. The tutorial is a short sample project, and it demonstrates the major concepts of the Plumber system.  It explains how to use the tools of Plumber effectively, and after going ...

Loading scripts in Maya sounds like programming and often sends artists hiding under their desks but really it is a quick easy process and opens a whole world of amazing little tools- Highend3d and other resources are packed with amazing scripts and tools that are made by kind souls and handed o...

I must thank Davvey for sharing this with me, there are few others that deserve credit,  their names are in the downloaded script file. If you download a lot of scripts this is a goodie...your script folder pops up inside Maya as a drop-down: download these scripts:DVY_menu.zip Put the DVY_Scr...

Merge sequences with Sequencemaster Combine multiple sequences with Reformat or Save As / Record   Reformat can merge multiple sequences to create a new sequence of the same file type. Save As / Record can batch convert multiple sequences as a new merged sequence ...

List Connections in the Hypergraph Software Needed: Maya 8.x Skill: Basic MEL   When editing the connections of a gven node can be confusing in the hypergraph. The hypergraph will get very complex depending on the amount of connections. As you can see there is only 4 custom...

jEdit is a great text editor. It is much more than just a text editor though. Through various plugins and macros, jEdit can be integrated into Maya and function as a full featured programming environment. And jEdit will function on every operating system that Maya does so its easy to use wherev...

what is the dreamLipSync? dreamLipSync is a trade mark of dreamslab.com, but it is also a lipsync software, as you maybe already understood. So don�t loose time in unusefull words and get in the software. Create or load your own mouth, or download my demo db (bocca.zip), and prepare yoursel...

"Hi, welcome into the walk cycle tutorial", load the database (dreamWalk.zip) in your MAYA workspace, and open the expression editor and the script editor. Open the MEL (dreamWalkWindow.zip) file with your favourite text editor, select all the text inside, copy and paste it into your script e...

"Hi, welcome into the walk cycle tutorial", load the database (dreamWalk.zip) in your MAYA workspace, and open the expression editor and the script editor. Open the MEL (dreamWalkWindow.zip) file with your favourite text editor, select all the text inside, copy and paste it into your script e...

This database derives from a personal experiment using expressions. I was looking for a cycling mathematical equation that could allow me to develop almost any cycling actions in human characters and four legs animals. This tutorial is divided into two parts: the first one is a lit...