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AndrewHazelden / getMayaPaneInspector.mel

Created January 9, 2016 11:57

A MEL script to inspect the pane element under the cursor.

	// Find out the name of the Maya GUI pane element under the cursor
	string $pointedPaneElement = `paneLayout -paneUnderPointer`;
	string $paneConfig = `paneLayout -query -configuration $pointedPaneElement`;
	int $paneChildren = `paneLayout -query -numberOfChildren $pointedPaneElement`;
	string $docTag = `paneLayout -query -docTag $pointedPaneElement`;
	int $visible = `paneLayout -query -visible $pointedPaneElement`;
	int $manage = `paneLayout -query -manage $pointedPaneElement`;
	int $enable = `paneLayout -query -enable $pointedPaneElement`;
	int $width = `paneLayout -query -width $pointedPaneElement`;
	int $height = `paneLayout -query -height $pointedPaneElement`;

AndrewHazelden / getMayaPaneName.mel

Created January 9, 2016 11:33

A MEL script to find out the name of the panel GUI element under the cursor

	// Find out the name of the Maya GUI pane element under the cursor
	paneLayout -paneUnderPointer;

AndrewHazelden / blackmagic_design_fusion_dirname.lua

Created December 15, 2015 12:05

A LUA script for Blackmagic Design Fusion that will both check the current platform, and provide a file system related "dirname" function to trim a file path down to the base directory.


	-- Find out the current operating system platform. The platform local variable should be set to either "Windows", "Mac", or "Linux".
	local platform = ""
	if string.find(fusion:MapPath("Fusion:\\"), "Program Files", 1) then
	-- Check if the OS is Windows by searching for the Program Files folder
	platform = "Windows"
	elseif string.find(fusion:MapPath("Fusion:\\"), "PROGRA~1", 1) then
	-- Check if the OS is Windows by searching for the Program Files folder
	platform = "Windows"
	elseif string.find(fusion:MapPath("Fusion:\\"), "Applications", 1) then

AndrewHazelden / sleep.mel

Created December 12, 2015 14:45

A MEL command for sleeping for 10 seconds.

	// MEL uses the pause command for sleeping the execution of the current script
	pause -sec 1;

AndrewHazelden / title_case.py

Created December 9, 2015 11:35

A Python script for converting a text string into "Title Case" style formatting

	# Capitalize the first letter of each word a string
	textString = 'hello world!'
	print textString.title()
	# Output: Hello World

	# Now try the title case conversion on elements in an array
	cubicViews = []
	cubicViews.append('back')
	cubicViews.append('bottom')
	cubicViews.append('front')

AndrewHazelden / padded_frame_number.mel

Last active December 9, 2015 11:39

A MEL script for generating a frame padded number. In this case the source value that is frame padded with leading zeros is the start frame value from the Maya Render Settings window

	// Add zero digit padding to an int value
	global proc string pvr_zeroPadding(int $num, int $padding){
	// Tip from the blog post: http://ldunham.blogspot.ca/2012/01/melpython-adding-number-padding.html

	int $lengthNum=size(string($num));
	string $padString;

	if($lengthNum<$padding){
	for($i=0;$i<($padding-$lengthNum);$i++){
	$padString=$padString+"0";

AndrewHazelden / progress_bar_demo.mel

Last active February 4, 2022 20:19

A MEL script for updating a progress bar as a task is running. If the escape key is pressed the task stops and the progress bar is hidden.

	int $startFrame = `getAttr "defaultRenderGlobals.startFrame"`;
	int $endFrame = `getAttr "defaultRenderGlobals.endFrame"`;

	// The $frameStep variable is used to implement frame skipping using the "By Frame" render settings attribute.
	int $frameStep = `getAttr "defaultRenderGlobals.byFrameStep"`;

	string $progressText = "";

	if($startFrame != $endFrame){
	// Show a rendering progress bar

AndrewHazelden / print_env.mel

Last active December 12, 2015 14:39

A MEL command for checking what the operating system's environment path variable is when launching child processes using system() on Windows.

	// Windows
	system("echo %PATH%");

	// Mac & Linux
	system("echo $PATH");

AndrewHazelden / print_env.py

Last active December 9, 2015 11:36

A Python script to check the system's environment path variable

	import os
	print '[System ENV PATH] ' + os.environ['PATH']
	# Result: [System ENV PATH] /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin

AndrewHazelden / check_batch_mode.py

Last active May 9, 2023 07:38

A python script to check if Maya is running in Batch mode or with a GUI

	# Check if Maya is running in Batch mode or with a GUI
	# A return value of 1 means Batch Mode, 0 means GUI mode
	def checkMayaGuiBatchMode():
	"""
	Maya tip on detecting Maya Batch mode is from Michael Scarpa's blog post "MEL Sillyness":
	http://www.scarpa.name/2010/12/16/mel-sillyness/
	"""

	# Check if Maya is running in batch mode or with a GUI
	import maya.OpenMaya

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