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Torque Game Engine

Maya2DTS Online Reference

Updated: 11/07/2004

Link: http://www.dannyngan.com/torque/maya2dts/

Online documentation and tutorials for the Maya2DTS exporter for Garage Games' Torque Game Engine.

dtsUtility

Updated 07/15/2005 View changelist.

Download: dtsUtility.zip

A GUI front-end for the Maya2DTS exporter for Garage Games' Torque Game Engine.

setTorqueUnits

Updated: 05/20/2004

Download: setTorqueUnits.zip

A simple MEL script for setting Maya's working units to work properly with the Torque Game Engine. Note: This functionality has been rolled into the latest version of dtsUtility.

Maya MEL Scripts

dannyUvTools

Updated: 05/08/2004 View changelist.

Download: dannyUvTools.zip

dannyUvtools.mel is a Maya MEL script that aids and automates parts of the process of laying out UVs for polygonal meshes.

dannyUvTools window dannyUvTools samples

dnAnimationTimer

Updated: 07/14/2004

Download: dnAnimationTimer.zip

dnAnimationTimer.mel is a Maya MEL script that allows you to time animations and tap out timing intervals. Keyframe times and intervals between keys are printed in the Script Editor for easy reference. See it in action (requires QuickTime).

dnAnimationTimer

dnTriangleCounter

Updated: 07/04/2004

Download zip file: dnTriangleCounter.zip

dnTriangleCounter.mel is a Maya MEL script that displays triangle counts for selected objects and all objects in the scene. It only counts polygonal objects and ignores everything else. See it in action (requires QuickTime).

dnTriangleCounter

dnPolyhedron

Updated: 08/13/2004 View changelist.

Download: dnPolyhedron.zip

dnPolyhedron.mel is a Maya MEL script for creating polygon shapes based on one of four platonic solids: tetrahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron. (Technically, there is a fifth platonic solid: the hexahedron, otherwise known as a cube. It is not included, because there is already a cube primitive in Maya).

dnPolyhedron samples dnPolyhedron window

dnWireHelpers

Updated: 05/14/2005

Download: dnWireHelpers.zip

dnWireHelpers.mel is a Maya MEL script that creates a variety of NURBS-based shapes that can be used as control objects in animation. Because they are NURBS curves, the helper objects can be reshaped and modified as needed, and they will not render.

dnSetUnits

Updated: 05/20/2004

Download: dnSetUnits.zip

A simple MEL script for changing Maya's linear units setting. It also adjusts grid and camera near and far clipping attributes to match.

panePop

Updated: 09/07/2004

Download: panePop.zip

panePop.mel is a default MEL script that handles spacebar toggling of the view panels. This version is a quick hack that gets around a display refresh bug on some ATI and Nvidia cards. It is not a sure-fire fix for the problem, but it does work on some cards if the latest drivers don't clear up the problem.