Need Help With Mel

[mr-oobov]

Hi there,

I'm not used to used MEL scripts so anytime i try, i can't find the good syntax by myself ;(

I have a cube called pCube1 and i would to give an expression to a vertex.

I want my vertex to take the y position of another vertex at another time (20 frames less)

My expression would be something like :

pCube1.vtx[11].translateY=pCube1.vtx[11].translateY (at CurrentTime -20)

If someone could help me to translate that into real MEL because maya doesn't understand mine

Thank you for your time.

[ewerybody]

"pCube1.vtx[11].translateY"?!?

I gonna put my food on very thin ice here... And I don't doubt a man whose name starts with j will punish me for this ... but:

As much as I understand Maya a vertex is not an object that can have attributes. Its rather some kind of attribute of an object (the cube shape) itself.
It does have a position! Which is by usual means an "attribute". But that doesn't mean you can access it in Maya like you access usual attributes.

To make a long story short: I think you gotta go another way to do this.
Maybe you tell us about the problem behind this problem? Maybe you don't even need that "vertex expression"..