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romz
05-03-2002, 05:57 AM
I've been using Maya for sometime now and able to animate particles just fine but, I have little knowledge on how to write expressions for particle animation. I know the language used for writting expression is relatively easy if you already know how to program but what about those of us who don't, are there any books, website, videos or recommended programming language I could checkout?

romz
FBMachine
05-03-2002, 07:47 AM
If you do some C tutorials, you'll probably be comfortable enough to start messing around in MEL. The syntax is very similar.
Dan
romz
05-03-2002, 08:19 AM
So maybe the shortest way to expressions is through mel scripting? Cool, I'll start searching for some docs on the subject.

Also and you would have to forgive me I only got about 4 hours of sleep last night (finals week) what are C tutorials?

romz
FBMachine
05-03-2002, 11:49 AM
Well expressions are basically MEL statements. C is a programming language that MEL resembles, search for "C programming tutorials" on www.google.com and I'm sure you'll find alot of stuff.
Dan
FBMachine
05-03-2002, 11:51 AM
Also, avoid C++ tutorials, they usually start with stuff on classes and the STL which is useless knowledge for learning MEL and will just confuse you. Only check out the C tutorials.
Dan
phoenix
05-03-2002, 01:14 PM
by chance i also bumppd into particles and expression thing and i am not sure am i suppose to do......



i want to learn the mel and expressions as well bit...i dont know a thing about progrAMMING STUFF....:)


REGARDS
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