Over the course of my work, I've sometimes found need to write useful scripts to make myself more effecient, below is a sampling.

 

Quick Select Set Manager

MEL

My UVing workflow for organic models makes use of a program called "Roadkill", which requires that a user have edges selected, along which Roadkill will generate its UV seams. Through working on this project my friend Tony Sladky needed a way to store these edges as Maya Quick Select Sets as iterations of the UV seams, and later delete this information after UVing was complete. Along with another friend, Jane Kang, we developed a script we call the Quick Select Set Manager, which generates a list of all Sets in the scene, and allows the user to create, rename, select, and delete those sets through a GUI, instead of going through Maya's menus.

 

Download qssm.mel

 

Attribute Dictionizer

MEL/Python

Creates a Python class called "attrDict", and generates a dictionary of all a selected components attributes in Python. The class allows the user to show, and in Python change the value of an attribute which both updates the dictionary, and its value in Maya. Please see the script comments for usage instructions.

 

Download attrDict.py