Author: Cyrille Fauvel
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@AU
Well, so far, so good! We had a great ADN session on Monday, before AU proper kicked off yesterday. Lots of opportunities to talk with old friends and new. It’s always fun to find out what people are doing with our technology and hopefully to help address some of the snags they’ve hit along the…
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3D printing tech previews on Autodesk Labs: Projects Miller and Shapeshifter
Again my apologizes for the long silence, but I was involved in finishing a project to be shown @ AU and because our ADN Devdays tour starts this week, I had to work extra hours and week-end to polish the application. Anyway, back to normal, I should write post regularly again :) For this first…
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ADN Devdays @ AU Las Vegas 2013
Back from AU Brazil where I made an introduction to Oauth and RESTful API, and it is already time to think about AU Las Vegas and the ADN Devdays. Once again, we will present the ADN Developer Conference the day before AU where 3ds Max and Maya engineering will introduce the new APIs in the…
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FBMenu stops working after an exception was raised
When code associated with a custom menu item raises an exception, the menu item can no longer be executed for that session of MotionBuilder. Steps: Load and execute the script below From the New Menu, select ‘SubMenu 1’ Observe in the Python window that an exception is displayed in the output From the New Menu,…
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PySide/PyQt and Maya Undo not good friends
Calling Maya commands from PySide/PyQt using MEL and/or their Python wrappers will display strange messages on the Maya console during undo/redo operation, and oftenly creates concerns if this a bug, or something gets wrong. Not at all – that is a side effect of how the command is called by the different interpreters. Consider this…
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Autodesk DevDays 2013
DevDays is a great way to get a sense of what technology is coming from Autodesk, something that’s valuable even for Autodesk employees: the ADN team does a great job of synthesising what’s coming from our various product groups – a challenging task for lots of reasons (the timing of the event relative to development…
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Got it right in MEL
evalDeferred() never worked with unquoted commands. Recently, someone reported that Maya 2014 works differently than previous releases when using evalDeferred(). the issue came-up with the following code: evalDeferred(print(“test”)) When MEL sees a function call being passed as a parameter to another function, it calls that function first and then passes the result down to the…
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Maya Node Editor and Attributes
The Node Editor takes a number of features that were previously divided between Maya's Hypershade, the Hypergraph and the Connection Editor, and merges them into a single user-friendly workspace. The Node Editor gives us a much simpler way of making advanced connections between any nodes or attributes in your Maya scene. With the Node Editor…
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Distributing Maya Apps – Porthaton is around the corner
Following this announcement. Here is an post from a colleague of mine Vjaya Prakash who is based in India (Bangalore) and mainly support the Maya API. People who wants to distribute their Apps which is going to be used by Maya users, they have to follow some semantics. You can watch the video of how…
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ADN Maya API training material freely available
Back from vacation, …, and a tons of emails to process :( But I can see a light that is coming to an end. If you tried to contact me and not yet received an answer, please ping me again. Anyway I am pleased to announce that after many years we decided to publish…
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