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

What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Sections
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support

1. Getting Started with Maya

Introduction
Using the script editor to investigate functionality
Running code from the script editor
Importing Maya's built-in Python functionality
Accessing documentation for a specific command
Understanding Create, Query, and Edit flags
Adding custom folders to your script path
Writing and running an external script
Calling a MEL script with Python

2. Creating User Interfaces FREE CHAPTER

Introduction
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 menus to your UIs

3. Working with Geometry

Introduction
Working with selected objects and checking node type
Accessing geometric data in polygonal models
Accessing geometric data in NURBS objects
Creating curves
Creating new polygonal faces
Creating new modifiers (noise)
Creating novel primitives (tetrahedron)

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

Introduction
Querying UV data
Laying out UVs with Python
Creating shading networks with code
Applying shaders to objects
Using shading nodes for non-shading tasks

5. Adding Controls – Scripting for Rigging

Introduction
Creating skeletons with script
Setting up set-driven key relationships with script
Adding custom attributes and locking and hiding attributes
Setting up inverse kinematics (IK) with script

6. Making Things Move – Scripting for Animation

Introduction
Querying animation data
Working with animation layers
Copying animation from one object to another
Setting keyframes
Creating expressions via script

7. Scripting for Rendering

Introduction
Creating and editing lights
Creating GUI to control all lights
Creating cameras from code
Rendering a sprite sheet

8. Working with File Input/Output

Introduction
Using the fileDialog2 command to navigate the file system
Reading text files
Writing text files
Writing binary data
Reading binary data
Reading multiple types of files

9. Communicating with the Web

Introduction
Opening a web page from script
Grabbing data from a server
Working with XML data
Working with JSON data
Sending POST data to a web server from Maya

10. Advanced Topics

Introduction
Wrapping Python functionality in MEL
Creating custom tools using contexts
Using script jobs to trigger custom functionality
Using script nodes to embed code in scenes
Combining script jobs and script nodes

Index

Chapter 7. Scripting for Rendering

In this chapter, we'll be looking at the following topics:

Creating and editing lights
Creating GUI to control all lights
Creating cameras from code
Rendering a sprite sheet

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