MEL Studio Pro is designed as a Maya plug-in so you no longer need to move between Maya and an external text editor. The MEL Studio Pro user interface is built around a main text editor: the Text Editor Window. This window is where most of the development work is done. MEL Studio Pro is an MDI (multiple document interface) program, so it is possible to open and edit several scripts simultaneously. This makes working on large scripting projects easy, where it is most comfortable to split procedures and source code in to several script files.
You can manage scripts and expressions as well. This makes MEL Studio Pro a central HUB for MEL language. MEL Studio Pro robust architecture makes possible to menage dozens of files and hundreds expressions simultaneously.
Working on several files can be difficult without a workspace schematic visualization: the workspace is the union of all settings and all opened documents. The Workspace View is a schematic overview of the workspace you are working on. It appears as a hierarchical view to the left side of the window. The Workspace View shows you information about: opened files, declared procedures and expressions.
Partial Feature List
- Multiple Document Interface (MDI)
- Multiple Document Interface (MDI)
- Find/Replace functions
- Unlimited Undo/Redo
- Colored comments, keywords, MEL commands, strings, etc.
- Advanced error checking feature on () [] {} pairs
- Expressions creation and editing
- Workspace hierarchical view
- Current line highlighting
- Lines number visualization (to the source code side)
- Current line number visualization (in the Status Line)
- Splitable editors
- Go to line number function
- Go to correspondent bracket (or parenthesis) function
- Drag & Drop source code to/from the shelf
- Execution of entire code and of selected parts
- Advanced Auto-Indentation, to simplify complex code writing.
- QuickHelp - quick-link to the MEL commands documentation
- Complete Command - MEL commands autocompletion
- Mark/Unmark, bookmark MEL code
- Customizable colors and fonts to increase view comfort
MEL Studio Pro $125
Single license of MEL Studio Pro.
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System Requirements
Windows versions of Maya 8, 8.5, 2008, 2008.2, 2009, 2010
32 & 64 bit
Customer Comments
“I’ve used MEL Studio Pro for years, and I find it to be the best and most efficient way to interact with MEL in Maya. I don’t (or maybe can’t…) go a day without it. Having many features of a full-blown text editor in Maya has proved to be invaluable during hurried production.”
Eric Pavey
Technical Character Director, Electronic Arts
“MEL Studio Pro has been a very valuable tool for me as a Character Technical Director. MEL Studio Pro allows me to use my time more efficiently when writing tools in Maya, I don’t have to worry about copying text back and forth from an external text editor, or constantly re-sourcing scripts as I edit them somewhere else. The multi document interface allows me to work on multiple scripts at once with ease, and the procedure list is great when navigating very long scripts. If I could only use one plug-in in Maya it would be MEL Studio Pro!
Mason Sheffield
Lead Character TD, Electronic Arts