Would you believe it, people actually read this??? Anyway, even more amazing: thanks to Guy Dubost, I’ve now learned that there actually is a straight-forward way of doing this in MEL: about -batch. As with so many things (undoInfo, anyone?) Maya really knows how to hide it’s functionality in the most obscure places/commands. Thank you Guy, for mailing me this hint!

Q: How do you check, whether Maya is running in batch mode, using MEL?

A colleague pointed me at this article on flipcode, lamenting that he couldn’t get the code to run on Linux. more

So I might have been a bit too eager yesterday. Threading does work, just not the way I was trying to do it.

Today I finally got to play with Maya 2011 at work. Since most of our pipeline is built on Python and Qt (via PyQt), my first interest after the improved apparel of the UI, was how much PyQt goodness we could get out of this new version.

I know, it’s been a while again, but in all honesty: I am far too busy with the 3D course these days. But it’s also very rewarding, so I’ve added a new section to the site, where you can find movies I made for the last two assignments of the course. Enjoy!

I’m currently following the 3D Producer course at the College of MultiMedia in Amsterdam. The first assignment (officially labelled as number 02) was to model something with a cord, like a power-tool or the likes.