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Does Maya Mel have a good API to a IDE?

I'm developing in MAYA and looking for a good API to connect my models and to be able to control them programatically.

thanks.

Solution

  • hye oded, you can use MEL or python scripting for control objects and doing simple actions, and you can use the c++ or Python via maya api to create complex tasks or heavy duty tasks, like creating deformers, expanding mel with new commands.

    for resources in mel scripting i recommend "gnomon Mel fundemental" video tutor

    and for the api i recommend "Complete Maya Programming" book

    if you could do any scripting or api programming and you know some python, you can easily program/script with python which is way easier than mel or c++

    hope that will help you :D