Lecture 01 : Introduction to MAYA and MEL

Welcome to the Programming Course "Notations in Space and Time"

http://prog.arch.ethz.ch/ws00

MAYA software ... MEL (MAYA Embedded Language) Programming

Why Programming?

- to express ideas by formulating them with a language
- to implement ideas you could not implement otherwise

... visually!

The course will be taught in English

The Staff: Daniel von Lucius, Kuk Hwan Mieusset, Steffen Lemmerzahl, (Rasmus Jörgensen), Maia Engeli

The Plan: Introduction, Workshop Nov. 11, Guest Lectures Nov. 17 and 24, Final Presentation Dec. 15, see the detailed plan here

Exercises: 9 Steps, 7 are required for the Testat

Intention - Formulation - Presentation

TODAY

Introduction to Modeling in MAYA

Introduction to MEL script editing

Getting started

see Tutorial: Prog Course - Getting started > Save
and MAYA Workspace Basics

Modeling with Polygon Primitives

see Tutorial: MAYA Polygon Primitives

Script Editor

see Tutorial: MEL Script: Recording ...

UltraEdit

see Tutorial: MEL Script: Recording, Editing, ...

Testing the Code

see Tutorial: MEL Script: Recording, Editing, Testing, ...

BREAK

Colors and Materials

see Tutorial: MAYA Colors and Materials

Lights

see Tutorial: MAYA Lights

Materials and Lights in MEL

see Tutorial: MEL Script: Recording, Editing, Testing, Materials, Lights

Cleaning Up the Script

see Tutorial: MEL Script: Recording, Editing, Testing, Materials, Lights

TASK 01 : FREEZE FRAME

see the Exercise description

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