Molecular Maya is available

[rogeriopfm]

To all the molecular, medical and biological animatiors:

Molecular Maya has been launched! It is made freely abailable here

http://molecularmovies.com/toolkit/registration.php

Now comes the troubleshoot...

I tried it and had a problem:

when

python("import mMaya; mMaya.init()");

is being run from the userSetup.mel file I see this in the script
editor with all commands being echoed (running in python mode):

// here I ran the piece of script that seems to relate to the problem

mMaya.init();

exists("nParticle");

// Result: 1 //

# Error: RuntimeError: Argument to mel() must be a String or Unicode object #

setFocus paneLayout -query -pane1 viewPanes;

Thus the UI never updates on rebooting Maya so I still haven't had the opportunity to try this amazing tool yet.

Am I doing something terribly wrong?

I loved the intro videos, amazing functionality. (http://molecularmovies.com/movies/m...atIsmMaya\_o.mov)

I was planning to do something similar down the road but I still
have less than a year of experience with mel, python and maya...

Best regards

[thnkr]

Just running
mMaya_install;

from the MEL tab in the script Editor and letting the script set up everything, and then restarting Maya worked just fine.

I'm not sure what you've been doing, but if echo all commands in on and you run

python("import mMaya; mMaya.init()");

then you would see:

import mMaya; mMaya.init()
exists("nParticle");

you can't run those from a Python tab, because exists does not (oh, the irony ) exists for python, it's a MEL command. I'm guessing that's what you tried.

If you wanted to run anything from a python tab, it would have to be this:

import mMaya
mMaya.init()

[rogeriopfm]

It doen't matter if I use the mel or python tab like you said

I get the same old error...

Do you have any additional lines in the userSetup.mel file besides

python("import mMaya; mMaya.init()");

?

I only have that line
Maya always gives the error:

# Error: file: C:/Users/Rogério/Documents/maya/2010/scripts/userSetup.mel line 1: RuntimeError: Argument to mel() must be a String or Unicode object #

when booting up

Damn this is exasperating