I occasionally work with Maya and Renderman in my day job. MEL was one of the reasons why I dropped Maya and started using cgkit (cgkit.sourceforge.net) to interface directly to Renderman.
With what little MEL I've done lately, there should be very little 'Mac-specific' issues for using a python engine in Maya. I assume Maya has defined a set of classes for interfacing with their object and texture generation and for the most part, it will look like any other python module from inside the scripting window. I believe even GUI controls are done more through the Maya interface (which then calls the Mac interface). Don't they include any documentation for accessing Python in Maya? (Our site hasn't done the Maya upgrade as yet.) Tom On Jul 11, 2007, at 12:01 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Actually I am working in: > Maya 8.5(http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index? > siteID=123112&id=7635643) > and Next Limits Real Flow 4(http://www.nextlimit.com/nlscript/) > My interest is in accessing the Python scripting functionality > within these > and > other applications. I am new to Python and programming. I need all > the help I > can get. > > Victor Merritt > > From: Daniel Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2007/07/10 Tue AM 10:35:36 CDT > To: has <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Victor Merritt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: pythonmac-sig@python.org > Subject: Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Mac oriented Python book (was: no > subject) > > I am guessing that Victor is either interested in scripting Blender > or Modo since those are the only higher-end 3D graphics modeling and > rendering packages I know of that support Python scripting. > I am ruling out Poser and Shade. > > The issue with those packages is that they use an embedded > interpreter so standalone aspects of Python (PyObjC, py2app, > wxPython) are useless in that context as far I have been able to > determine. > I use Modo but have only tinkered with using Python with it. > > On Jul 10, 2007, at 7:53, has wrote: > >> Victor Merritt wrote: >> >>> I am an Visual Effects artist in need of a good Mac oriented Python >>> book. >>> I have been reading the online materials, but I don't always have >>> the time >>> to sit in front of a computer, thus my need for a good Mac focused >>> Python Book. >>> Any suggestions would be very helpful. >> > _______________________________________________ > Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig > > _______________________________________________ > Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
