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Free Stuff #11 – Simple MEL
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I thought it was about time I uploaded something to my site, something that you guys could use and maybe develop? Well, rather than a model or a rig I thought I would share some of the simple MEL scripts I use on a daily basis.

Simple copy the text below and create a button in Maya :)

Reload Textures – Reloads all the textures in a scene

string $textureList[] = `ls -type file`;
for ($texture in $textureList)
   {
   setAttr -type “string” ($texture + “.fileTextureName”) `getAttr ($texture + “.fileTextureName”)`;
   }
 

Toggle Symmetrical Modeling

symmetricModelling -e -symmetry (!`symmetricModelling -q -symmetry`)
 

Toggle Isolate Selection

string $panel = `getPanel -withFocus`; 
enableIsolateSelect $panel (! `isolateSelect -q -state $panel`);
FrameSelected;
 

Toggle Shell Selection

polySelectConstraint -bo 0 -sh (!`polySelectConstraint -q -sh`)
 

Like I said, only simple scripts but I hope they come in useful…On another note, if you need a script let me know and I will throw one together and add it here.

 

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