Maya 2017 - A rough guide to the MASH Python node

[@kemarwalker9091]

Great tutorial Ian, I enjoyed them all, thank you. Just keep them coming.

[@camcamcam-420]

very cool! the mash tutorials are very helpful

[@oterik]

Do love your vids bonne continuation et merci :-)

Hi Ian, great video. Is there a book or web site you recomended for learning Python, Thanks

[@carlosfranciscovaldescarde8329]

Thanks for the tutorial Ian, I have a small question, is there a way to affect local rotations or translate? the outRotation[i] values seems to work on world space.

[@DimejiAjibola]

Great tutorial, Ian. Can you do a tutorial on Mystique (in X-men) style transformation with MASH? Thanks

[@ianwaters6035]

Yeah that kind of thing is certainly doable with the Blend deformer, I'll add it to the list.

[@ohjein]

Thank you very much for your videos! I'm stuck on one thing: Is it possible to control any attribute with a python node? I'm trying to control the animation frame (or strength per instance) of a time node with Python, is this possible? Thanks!

[@ianwaters6035]

We'll you'd either set the time channel with the Python node (by setting isAnimated[i] = 1, and frame[i]= whatever frame you want). Or you'd use Maps or Falloffs on the Time node itself.

[@ohjein]

Thanks! When I listed the node's attributes I must have overlooked "frame" , that should work

[@ptf42069]

What python skill do I need to create something like this?

[@ianwaters6035]

Copy and pasteing skills? :) Lots more python examples here now: www.ianwaters.co.uk

[@kristianolesen6679]

can you share how to do random rotation in the python node

[@ianwaters6035]

import random #import random at the top of the script #do something :) outRotation[i].x = random.uniform(0,360) # repeat for y and z

[@ianwaters6035]

remember to do random.seed(i) so that the random number is the same on every frame.

[@kristianolesen6679]

Thanks for the fast response. this did the job (Y) :)

[@MiguelRamirez-cs6ue]

Buenas alguien podria indicarme en que parte consigo la opcion Mash en maya 2015, pues lo he buscado en modo "animacion" y no doy con ese menu, saludos

[@ridewithme4965]

deberías empezar a usar el maya 2017 porq ya a cambiado mucho

[@RoN43wwq]

any solutions to add time node to instancer?

[@ianwaters6035]

No the instancer is sadly too old. You can use id cycling though, which is similar. There's an old tutorial here about it vimeo.com/67561427

[@RoN43wwq]

I have 1 alembic animating mesh. Try to create network by instancer and add ID node with cycle type. All instances have the same animation. where i`m wrong? wanna randomize animation in instances

[@ianwaters6035]

Do you have a different model for each frame of animation (an animation snapshot)? Then the ID can cycle through the different models.

[@RoN43wwq]

I must duplicate my animating mesh with offset animation in AlembicNode? I can`t use instancer with ID node with only one mesh? It working only with multyply mewshes with different animation? Thanks!