QUOTE(Allegro @ 08/22/06, 10:11 PM) [snapback]245863[/snapback]
I think it'd be great to be able to do large scale, repetative tasks like tree generation without mel scripting
Or be able to rig and animate a character, and then still be able to make a change on the model
Umm.... have i messed something ovious here? Imean the entire maya piipe is a procedural one. (thets what history IS)
here a samplel is used in this its fully prcedural no mel in your meaning (altough it does involve mel mainly bevcause theres no maya without mel).
growmockup.mov
I do think the no mel paranoia is as stupid as it gets. Its like saying i wish i could do instructiojs to others without wirting. text just happens to be the universaly most easily grasped way to isntruct a computer to do copmlex sequences. Just because you dont knwo the languege does not make this untrue.
But yeah you can do a lot of theese stuff even without mel. Mel just happens to be a gerat shoppinglist. i could do most of the mel operations as a gui, but thing is using such a gui would eb easy for you true but itd be sleower than writing the mel.
BUt if you think mel is hard yoru mistaken, writing this post is harder than most mel stuff.