This tutorial will teach you how to make a controller for animating a hand using MEL. This will help you make complex animations that can easily be edited.
Scripting / Programming
Object Spreading
In this tutorial you will learn how to automate the placement of high number of objects. Multiple methods are covered.
Maya ZDepth and Grayscale Representation
This tutorial shows 3 different methods to create height and depth grayscale representations of a maya scene, which may be useful in many cases such as addin...
Solar system in Maya
This tutorial will explore using Maya's particle system and instancer to simulate planets with several moons orbiting the Sun. With a few expressions you can...
Tick-Based UI Updating in MaxScript
Dirty, but effective- you can have your Maxscript UI update a few times per second rather than use event-driven methods.
3dsMax Tab UI
This walkthrough shows you what you need to know in order to setup and use the tabbed UI in 3dsMax.