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Maya Programming with Python Cookbook

You're reading from Maya Programming with Python Cookbook Master complex workflows and conquer the world with Python and Maya

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785283987

Length 266 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Maya

Concepts

Graphics Programming

Authors (2):

Pankaj K P Singh

Herbez

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with Maya

2. Creating User Interfaces FREE CHAPTER

3. Working with Geometry

4. Giving Things a Coat of Paint – UVs and Materials

5. Adding Controls – Scripting for Rigging

6. Making Things Move – Scripting for Animation

7. Scripting for Rendering

8. Working with File Input/Output

9. Communicating with the Web

10. Advanced Topics

Index

Chapter 2. Creating User Interfaces

In this chapter, we'll be taking a guided tour through Maya's collection of user interface elements and learning how to use them to create interfaces that you and your teammates will love to use. The following topics will be covered:

Making a basic window
Simple controls – making a button
Retrieving input from controls
Using classes to organize UI logic
Using nested layouts
Using tabs and scrolling
Adding menu to your UIs

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Authors (2)

Pankaj K P Singh

Pankaj K P Singh

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Herbez

Herbez

Adrian Herbez is an accomplished software engineer and educator with a background in virtual worlds and gaming. He has worked as a web developer at Linden Lab (the creators of Second Life) and a senior software engineer at Sony Computer Entertainment, America, where he developed games and interactive content for PlayStation Home. He also served as the lead gameplay engineer for KIXEYE's War Commander. Adrian has also taught at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco in a number of different departments over the years, covering Maya, web development, and game programming. He is currently the cofounder and president of Jamwix, a game and media start-up. So far, Jamwix has released CineMagic: Hollywood Madness, a mobile game for iOS and Android as well as the first feature-length movie for virtual reality (The Banshee Chapter: Oculus Rift Edition). Adrian holds a master's degree in Fine Arts from the University of California, Irvine, from the Arts, Computation, and Engineering department, and has served as a juror for IndieCade, the international festival of independent gaming, for a number of years.

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