Programming for Animation Blog

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• Week 10
  December 05, 2022 by up2115462#TB1

  In this week, I continue developing my car script to animate multiple cars, and animate along a curve. To begin, I use the polyUnite function to do a mesh combine on the car elements. This makes it ea... Continue reading

  
• Week 9
  November 28, 2022 by up2115462#TB1

  Week 9 In this week I create a script that first produces a car using shapes, and then animates it in maya. Here is the code: This code creates a window with input fields for the user to select which... Continue reading

  
• Week 8
  November 21, 2022 by up2115462#TB1

  Modular Pyramids Continued Pyramid Class Following on from last week I have moved all the pyramid functions into a class. This was easy I had already moved the code into functions. The only other chan... Continue reading

  
• Week 7
  November 14, 2022 by up2115462#TB1

  In this lesson we have to define a function that creates a pyramid shape using polyCubes. Func 1: My first try at a pyramid function. This creates a basic pyramid with 4 cube objects, moving each one... Continue reading

  
• Week 6
  November 07, 2022 by up2115462#TB1

  Week 6 quiz questions Question 1 Functions Which of the following is NOT a good reason for using functions in Python? (a) to make complex scripts more easy to read. (b) to make complex scripts more mo... Continue reading
• Week 5
  October 24, 2022 by up2115462#TB1

  Today I went through the classes tutorial on w3schools (https://www.w3schools.com/python/python_classes.asp) I wrote my own code to get an understanding of how classes work in Python. In this code I d... Continue reading

  
• Python Principles Challenges
  October 17, 2022 by up2115462#extra

  This week I decided to test my skills and try to complete all the free challenges from python principles. https://pythonprinciples.com/challenges/ After a lot of attempts and bug-fixing, I have solved... Continue reading

  
• Week 4
  October 17, 2022 by up2115462#TB1

  In this week I did some function exercises and applied the knowledge to maya. The function exaples I completed can be found at w3schools.com Function Practice in MAYA Here are the functions I made. On... Continue reading

  
• Week 3
  October 10, 2022 by up2115462#TB1

  In this week, I moved on to more basic python concepts and functions Python Data Types There are a multitude of data types in python. Some main types are: String, Integer and Float. In python differen... Continue reading

  
• Week 2
  October 10, 2022 by up2115462#TB1

  This week we had an intro to python basics and variables. Syntax Errors If a line of code has a mistake the compiler will output a syntax error. In the example: print("Hello World!) The compiler would... Continue reading
• Week 1
  October 10, 2022 by up2115462#TB1

  This week I learned how to open the script editor in maya. To import maya functions the script must begin with: import maya.cmds Additionally I can now generate poly modelling objects using commands,... Continue reading