Useful Command

Useful Maya Mel commands

Here I share some of my commands, you can follow this tutorial to install it.

Toggle Visibility PolyMeshes ( this is the same for nurbs surfaces, nurbs curves... ):


$currentPanel = `getPanel -withFocus`; 
		string $panelType = `getPanel -to $currentPanel`; if ($panelType == "modelPanel") { 
		modelEditor -e -polymeshes ( !`modelEditor -q -polymeshes $currentPanel` ) $currentPanel; } ;

Look throught selected:


lookThroughSelected 0 modelPanel4;

Wireframe on shaded:


$currentPanel = `getPanel -withFocus`; 
		string $panelType = `getPanel -to $currentPanel`; if ($panelType == "modelPanel") { 
		modelEditor -e -wos ( !`modelEditor -q -wos $currentPanel` ) $currentPanel; }

Isolate selection:


$currentPanel = `getPanel -withFocus`;
$state = `isolateSelect -q -state $currentPanel`;
 if ($state == "0"){
   enableIsolateSelect $currentPanel 1; }
 else{
   enableIsolateSelect $currentPanel 0;}

Set transparensy of material of selected object to 0.5:


	string $sel[] = `ls -sl`;

	hyperShade -smn;
	
setAttr ($sel[1] + ".transparency") 0.5 0.5 0.5;

select $sel[0];

Show Input and Output connections of selection in the Hypershade:


hyperShadePanelGraphCommand("hyperShadePanel1", "showUpAndDownstream");

Open attribute editor of material of the selected object:


string $sel[] = `ls -sl`;
showSG $sel[0];

Toggle the view to perspective (wireframe):


viewSet -fit -ff 0.8 -krs true -an 1 -p  ;
DisplayShaded;

Toggle the view to Top (wireframe):


viewSet -fit -ff 0.8 -krs true -an 1 -t  ;
DisplayWireframe;