Good news, MASH only uses Maya’s default data types, so all MASH data can be accessed via normal Maya APIs. Ordinarily this isn’t needed as MASH provides two built in ways to extract data: For the non scripter there’s the Breakout node, which can...

Say you want to create the above animation of random spokes moving about; to do this you’ll need to shuffle the MASH points, read on to find out why, and how. Let’s start with a grid distribution: As you can see, when MASH creates a grid distribution, all...

The Time node in MASH is really useful for creating looping or offset animations inherited from an input model. Check out this tutorial for more on that. The problem is that the Time node is only available when MASH is creating an output mesh via the Repro node (this...

Here’s a quick and dirty implementation of a couple of strange attractors in MASH using the Python node. To use them simply copy and paste the Python into the Python node and click run (top right of the Python Editor). I used the Trails node in Join the Dots...

Add random 90 degree rotations to all MASH objects. To use the code, simply copy and paste it into the Python node. The below variation will give you random Y rotation, you can use the same idea to adjust the X and Z rotations as well if you need to. Python import...