MEL Fundamentals

Maya
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I was wondering if any of you guys had used the MEL fundamentals book. We were thinking about getting it for our lab, but I wanted to get a little feedback on it to see if it is actually worth $300.

thanks,
rob

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I don't have that book. but I have found the available resources in the Docs and online to be sufficient. The tips and tutorials that are here are good and there is a wealth of information to be had from picking apart scripts located here at highend.

If you have absolutely no experience doing any kind of scripting or programming then maybe the book is for you. But if you have ever written HTML by hand , Java, Perl or Shell scripts then you allready have a foundation to go by.

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3

Has anyone actually used this book? I was thinking of getting it not so much for myself, but for the lab I work in.

I work in a visualization lab at the University of Illinois. I am helping coach several people through tutorials right now on maya, and thought this book might be a good addition to our reference library.

Just wondering if anyone has actually seen it and if they think it is worth its huge pricetag of $300

thanks,
rob

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I just picked it up a few weeks ago and have found it to be pretty helpful. While there are lots of sources on the web this is a concise explanation of all the basics and then some. Although I had written a fairly complex script already, I learned a few things just from the intro chapters.

I think it would be really useful in a Student Lab setting. In terms of the price tag - it's a tough call - the book is not the end-all-be-all of MEL, and might be steep for the individual, but again for a lab I would recommend it.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Rob
Parsons School of Design/AMNH, NYC