Main Window
Polygon cube with N-Gons highlighted
N-Gon detector for Maya
- Language: MELThis simple program scans any polygonal object and finds any N-Gons. An N-gon is a polygon face that
has more than 4 vertices (or 3 if your program doesn't accept quads).
To use, select any object or set of objects, launch the script, and press Run. You have the option of having
the program consider quads or tris (or both) to be N-Gons.
The program will select all the N-Gons and report how many it found. With the N-Gons selected, you can delete
them, or assign them a material, etc.
Hidden Object Locator
Language: PythonThis program analyzes the camera view and animation and finds objects that are always outside the camera's view.
It can also find objects that are always obscured by other objects. It selects these objects, so you can delete
them, put them on a display layer, etc.
To use, Go into a single-panel layout that shows the view you want to scan. Then deselect everything, c
onfigure the view, and press Scan
You can also use this script to check an object's geometry to see if there are any faces the camera never sees.
Running this script this on environment geometry and then deleting the detected faces can greatly improve render
times. Make sure to go enter isolate select and then go into component mode if you decide to do this.
Objects whose LOD is set to Template or Reference will confuse the script. Set all objects to a LOD of Normal.
Otherwise the script will flag them as being "invisible."
Usage Examples:
The red pipe is selected because it is outside of camera1's view for the entirety of the 120 frames.
Here, the red pipe is not selected because it originated inside the camera view but exited. Because it was once in the camera view, it was not flagged as hidden. (See motion trail)
With Occlusion Search turned off, the green pipe is not selected even though the purple plane is completely blocking it form camera1's view. The red pipe was selected because it remained outside camera1's view.
However, with Occlusion Search enabled, the green pipe is selected because camera1 cannot see it, even though it is 100% inside camera1's frustum. Occlusion Search is disabled by default because sometimes objects such as lights and shadow casting objects are hidden behind other objects but are critical to the look of a scene.
Auto Keyframe Camera Shake Generator
Language: MELThis simple utility adds customizable jitter to a camera (or any object with translate / rotate channels). Select
the objects, launch the script, and press Shake!
Script UI
Animation Curves of camera before shake
Animation curves of camera after intense shake
Animation curves of camera after weak shake
Quad Sphere generator
Language: PythonCreates a sphere that has no triangles or poles (vertex with many edges leading to it). Note: The sphere isn't perfect, so if you know a way to fix the shape, please let me know.
The interface
A quad sphere with the default settings
A quad sphere with 5 divisions
Batch Attribute Connector
Language: MEL
Bulk direct-connects a set of objects to a master object. Useful for easily setting up direct-drive for a
controller, Rig-wide node caching or Rig-wide evaluation disabling.
The script is very simple, so just copy-paste the code into the script editor.
/*
Created by Ravbug (ravbug.github.io)
Simple program to mass connect the attributes of one object to many.
*/
//Set the Master object name and attribute name
$master = "Root";
$attr = "Caching";
$attr2 = "caching";
$objs = `ls -sl`;
$full = $master + "." + $attr;
$count = 0;
for ($obj in $objs){
$exists = `attributeExists $attr2 $obj`;
if ($exists && $obj != $master){
$full2 = $obj + "." + $attr2;
connectAttr $full $full2;
$count = $count + 1;
}
}
print ("Connected " + $count + " objects to " + $full);