namespace -mv "Insert scene name to be removed here" ":" -force;

Very handy! can also be used for fluids!

http://www.baja.tv/watch/video/uEOkgI19Sh4/maya-ncloth-dynamics-tutorial-looping-flag-sim-using-the-blendcache-node-intermediate-level/

Use this is you wish to have a loopable image sequence on a plane and want the animation to start at different times.  i.e - flag animation offset so it looks different on each plane. 

Right click the purple box (image number) and edit expression to this -

float $movie= 60;  (Length of your sequence)

float $offset = 42;  (Offset you want)

int $firstframe=1;

float $loop=abs(((frame+$offset)%$movie))+$firstframe;

file11.frameExtension=$loop;  (make sure you change file11 to your file name)(and delete all red text!)

If you ever paste something into maya from another Scene it always has a “pasted__” suffix to remove this run this MEL script

{

string $pasted[] = `ls "pasted__*"`;

string $object;

for ( $object in $pasted )

{

string $elements[];

// The values returned by ls may be full or partial dag

// paths - when renaming we only want the actual

// object name so strip off the leading dag path.

//

tokenize( $object, "|", $elements );

string $stripped = $elements[ `size $elements` - 1 ];

// Remove the 'pasted__' suffix from the name

//

$stripped = `substitute "pasted__" $stripped ""`;

// When renaming a transform its shape will automatically be

// be renamed as well. Use catchQuiet here to ignore errors

// when trying to rename the child shape a second time.

// 

catchQuiet(`evalEcho("rename " + $object + " " + $stripped)`);

}

}

http://minchomarinov.com/MMShelf/index.html

This script creates a cone for each selected locator and then puts all created cones into a group called, surprisingly, 'cones'. You'll have to scale up the cones as required.

proc trackCone()

{

//Defines Variables

float $pp[];

string $pointCloud[] = `ls -sl -fl`;

//Create a cone for each selected locator

for ($eachObject in $pointCloud)

{

$pp = `pointPosition -w $eachObject`;

string $cone[] = `polyCone -r 1 -h 2 -sx 4 -sy 1 -sz 0 -n trackCone_1`;

move -ls 0 1 0 $cone.scalePivot $cone.rotatePivot;

rotate 180 0 0;

move $pp[0] ($pp[1] - 1) $pp[2] $cone;

}

//creates a group called 'cones' and adds all cones to it

group -n cones "trackCone_*";

}

trackCone();

renderThumbnailUpdate 0;

renderThumbnailUpdate 1;

This script is used when your outliner is no longer displaying. This usually occurs after using maya on second display and then disconnecting the display.

Outliner off Screen - (To bring it back)

// check that the outliner window exists

print (`windowPref -exists outlinerPanel1Window` + "\n");

// see where it is

print `windowPref -q -topLeftCorner  outlinerPanel1Window`;

// bring it back to the topleft of the screen

window -e -topLeftCorner 50 50 outlinerPanel1Window;