Over last 4 weeks I have been learning MEL script for Technical Scripting class. Its not very hard, reminds me of VB (Visual Basic) a lot. Just like with C++ and VB I don't enjoy spending more time on debugging it than actually writting it, though MEL is not so bad so far I didn't spend much time debugging my own code, only forgot semi-colon here and there. I think I spend more time helping people to debug the code we are given from out tutor in tutorials. Which is kinda annoying, you'd expect the code that we are suppose to copy and paste to be correct. But anyway, over the weeks we had to do different lab works while we were learning different stuff. The week 4 labworks includes them all pretty much.
I have taken mine bit further than we were suppose to in the UI design and layout, I like my things to look pretty. It wasn't always easy because making procedure for dynamic file path work BEFORE I knew about procedures was a pain, just like was looking for how to include image. Which is really simple but nowhere on the net I could find it, my file paths never worked hence why I ended up using procedure for dynamic file path. Since Blogger wont let m upload text files or even just use kind of spoiler tool (like on forums) I wont be posting the scripts, sore are just too long. Here are just some images of what they do. The first is from my very first script, it makes cubes to be arranged in LILITH formation. Then the other two are my Week 2 and Week 4 UIs.
Overall I think MEL can be useful, its not that hard to understand and I will probably use it my future projects. Don't know about developing my own tools, but you never know.



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