Have to say I echo the comments from Marcus. I used to use Pymel all the time back at Eurocom and yes, the way it deals with Maya as proper object oriented setup is very nice and gives you very fast access for prototyping systems. But for most of the things we were doing that cleanliness of code came as a cost. Not just in terms of speed, which lets face it, for a rigging systems isn't that important, if it takes 2secs or 10secs to build a rig in code, who really cares. But the issue of speed meant that we were often doing the grunt work, finding nodes and searching systems in cmds, then passing those to pymel for the meat of the function, and for me, that was hard work. I think what Pymel has done is fabulous, the guys are rocket scientists, but they're still fighting Maya under the hood.
Out of interest have you guys taken a look at the Red9 Meta that I've been doing, it's a really light wrapper that gives you all the dot complete and Maya node handling but is way, way lighter. I'm doing a talk at Develop on it next week and there's a ton of Vimeo demos, be interested to get some feedback from you guys. http://www.developconference.com/page.cfm/Action=Visitor/VisitorID=339 It's used, or rather it is the backbone of, all the pipelines at Crytek now, everything is wired together and accessed via Red9_Meta. http://red9-consultancy.blogspot.co.uk/ https://vimeo.com/user9491246 (search for the 4 meta data videos) cheers Mark On 6 July 2014 19:50, Christopher Crouzet <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, he's got his reasons that I won't share for him. Plus, that's a > thread about PyMEL (and kinda Fabric), not about Andrea's personal life :) > > > > On 6 July 2014 13:15, Marcus Ottosson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Haha, yes, it’s about time. :) >> >> As for Andrea, not anymore. After Coral he went to DreamWorks, then >> indeed worked for Fabric, but he’s now happily making beautiful vintage >> surfboards. >> >> Oh really! Didn’t know that, do you know why? Seems like quite a shift. >> >> >> >> On 6 July 2014 16:43, Christopher Crouzet <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Glad to see that we finally agree on something ;) >>> >>> As for Andrea, not anymore. After Coral he went to DreamWorks, then >>> indeed worked for Fabric, but he's now happily making beautiful vintage >>> surfboards: http://www.settembresurf.com/ >>> One genius of a kind. >>> >>> >>> >>> On 6 July 2014 11:28, Marcus Ottosson <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Yeah, I couldn't have hoped for a better suited team or more exciting >>>> goals than that of Fabric, it has all the potential in the world. >>>> >>>> Ps. Isn't Andrea with Fabric too? My impression was that he gave up on >>>> Coral shortly after having been recruited by those guys. 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