This is my personal old Maya toolbox, including all the useful mel and python tools.

I no longer use and maintain these old tools, so they are good only for your reference.

and each category of functions are seperated into different mel/python files, like a modules system.

Purpose

• help you to convert multiple lines of mel code into 1 line
• also help you to create the button creation code with give multiple lines of mel code

Screenshot

• A GUI python Maya tool to generate geometry instances at each particle position with optional random rotation and scale.

Features

• v3.0 (2016.08.10)
  • support random geo from geo list
  • support both vtx and particle based position spread
  • add random shortlist vtx feature
  • independent x,y,z scale random option
  • align to normal on surface option
  • open option for distance filter option
  • open option for duplicate as instance for geo input
  • add scale min, so range from min to scale
• v2.0
  • scatter with defined geometry and defined/auto defined particle system
  • scatter with optional random rotation/scale at individually x,y,z axis
  • each individual scale can have same value on all axis, maintain its proportion
  • super cool feature: it has object distance detection built-in, if particle distance is smaller than the bounding box diagonal distance, the object won't duplicate at that spot

Usage

• Select the geo/s to scatter;
• select particle/vtx for the position info,
  • for particle, optionally select the surface to create a object emit particle, then play timeline to a frame that fit your partcile amount.
  • for vtx, optionally random pickup a num of points from your vtx selection
• use scatter random option (TRS,align,mixDistBetPoint,Inst);
• scatter button to scatter.