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Practical Maya Programming with Python

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目錄(93章)

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封面
版權頁
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Support files eBooks discount offers and more
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Chapter 1. Introspecting Maya Python and PyMEL
Creating your library
Exploring Maya and PyMEL
Building the pmhelp function
Summary
Chapter 2. Writing Composable Code
Defining composability
Learning to use list comprehensions
Writing a skeleton converter library
Writing a character creator
Improving the performance of PyMEL
Summary
Chapter 3. Dealing with Errors
Understanding exceptions
Living with unhandled exceptions
Golden rules of error handling
Practical error handling in Maya
Building a high-level error handler
Installing the error handler
Improving the error handler
Summary
Chapter 4. Leveraging Context Managers and Decorators in Maya
Inverting the subroutine
Introducing decorators
Introducing context managers
Context managers for changing scene state
Creating the denormalized_skin context manager
Creating a decorator to record metrics
Advanced decorator topics
Summary
Chapter 5. Building Graphical User Interfaces for Maya
Introducing Qt PyQt and PySide
Establishing rules for crafting a GUI
Installing PySide
Supporting PySide and PyQt
Creating the hierarchy converter GUI
Integrating the tool GUI with Maya
Working with menus
Working with Maya shelves
Summary
Chapter 6. Automating Maya from the Outside
Controlling Maya through request-reply
Designing the automation system
Understanding the Maya startup routine
Building the request-reply automation system
Practical uses and improvements
Summary
Chapter 7. Taming the Maya API
Explaining types
Introducing Maya's API and architecture
Learning the Maya Python API by example
Creating a Maya Python plugin
Using PyMEL in a plugin that loads during startup
Summary
Chapter 8. Unleashing the Maya API through Python
Understanding Dependency Graph plugins
Demystifying Python metaprogramming
Designing the node factory
Building the node factory
Extending the node factory
Summary
Chapter 9. Becoming a Part of the Python Community
Understanding Open Source Software
Creating a site directory for third-party modules
Working with Python distributions in Maya
Contributing to the open source community
Engaging with the wider community
Summary
Appendix A. Python Best Practices
The args and kwargs parameters
String formatting
String concatenation
Raw strings and string literals
Path building and manipulation
Unicode strings
Using the doctest module
Adopting Test-Driven Development
Using the GitHub repository for this book
Index 更新時間：2021-09-03 10:05:39

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