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MEL is the Maya Embedded Language used to automate processes in the 3D Computer Animation and Modeling software, "Maya".

MEL stands for Maya Embedded Language, which is a scripting language similar to Perl. It can be used to create automated processes in Autodesks's 3D rendering application Maya.

More information can be found in the Wiki about MEL.

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In MEL, how do I translate an objects pivot in one direction only?

I want to write a script that will take multiple objects, center their respective pivots and then translate the pivots in y to 0. Here are two variations of my attempts so far: string $sel[] = `ls -sl -typ transform`; string $obj; for ($obj in…
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Attribute template in Maya

I am working in Maya 2014. I have my custom attributes showing in the Channels Box. I am now trying to show my custom attributes in the Attribute Editor. I have an AETemplate file called AECamera_OrthoTemplate.mel code below: global proc…
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Is it possible to use Mule MEL expressions against XML, DOM or other raw structures?

I am trying to avoid making a XML to JAXB transformation due to performance issues - the message can be fairly complex. Is it possible to use expressions against message not converted to POJO? I've tried using XML to DOM transformer but afterwards…
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Read NURBS control points in Maya from an ASC file

Say I have an ASC file with 100 (x,y,z) coordinates (representing a helix-like world line trajectory). I want to import that file in Maya and create a NURBS with each of the coordinate from my ASC file as a control point. I know how to import asc…
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Execute a MEL command after a window has opened

I'm writing a MEL script which involves opening the grease pencil UI toolbar. I want to remove the close button on that toolbar. I tried doing GreasePencilTool; window -edit -tbm 0 greasePencilFloatingWindow; but get Error: line 2: window: Object…
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Mule ESB can not trigger Choice 'when' condition

I can not get Mule ESB to trigger a Choice 'when' condition I converted a Hello World flow to to accept aJSON object (inserting a JSON to Object node) and execute a Choice node. But I can not trigger the 'when' condition of the CHoice statement; I…
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Mule ESB: Can not get MEL to access field

I have the following flow, that accepts a JSON object from http, then converts the JSON object to a standard Object, and then performs a CHOICE on the object. Below is the flow:
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Updating Attribute Editor

I am trying to update all the tabs of the shaders (in the Attribute Editor) for every new shaders added. I chanced upon this Mel command - updateAE that I gather the information from here I tried doing a simple test, while I have a few surface…
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Displaying and intrepreting tab layouts

I would like to know if it is possible to 'see' and display the following tab layout maybe through the Attribute Editor etc? Or how can I interpret it? In the following, I selected the shader - ShaderParam_resGen_srf01 but after searching through…
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Python Command to render vray

Making a small script to write out .vrscenes for me, however I'm a little stick with getting them to render. I'm using the pymel render command, which seems to call the maya software renderer rather than vray itself ignoring all the rendersettings I…
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Time counter for opening Maya file

I am trying to open an .mb file format, but it is taking pretty long to do so, in which I suppose the problem that is causing it is due to the amount of reference rigs in the file itself. And hence, I was thinking, is there any sort of python/mel…
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why formLayout not found?

string $formEX = `formLayout -numberOfDivisions 100 -p formLayout5`; string $buttonEX = `button -l "button" -h 26`; $formLayout8 = `formLayout -q -ca formLayout5`; formLayout -e -attachForm $buttonTime "top" 0 -attachForm $buttonTime "left"…
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How to dump "sourced mel script" from autodesk maya memory?

Maya is a 3d animatin package, and it has a scripting lanaguage named MEL which looks very similar to C syntax. My question is sometimes people encrypted their mel code, wrap them inside a .mll plugin. and source the code into memory before calling…
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Python script that runs from MEL Command

I wrote this Python script that should run when I use my MEL command. It worked before when I tested it on my school computer. But now it doesn't seem to work, I don't know if it's changed since last, I can't see that it is either. When I run it…
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Number/Version Paddings in Maya

I am trying to write out a code for doing a number/ version padding but as I tried to search thru the internet, I am however, only able to find a MEL example in which it works but it doesn't make sense to me (most probably I do not understand how it…
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