Thanks for the reply man, definatly got me a good picture of how diffrent coding languages work within maya. all this has been a mystery to me for a long time now haha.

What are the advantages of learning C++? and how come ive never heard of it, when i see tutorials i can only see people using MEL. When do i use C++? I would be interested in learning to code if it...

Is there any tutorials how to do this? I have barvley been working in MEL, but would love to learn if i can find any positive shortcuts such as this. thanks for the reply :)

How would MEL scripting do this? Is there any way that MEL can find vertex groups just like the new tool in 2014 'Select similar'?

Ended up doing just that. Just hoped there would be a more simple way though

So this is a problem i have stumbled on many times.

http://i59.tinypic.com/w9ck1g.png

See i get a certain area in my mesh that are the same, but when i want to scale them all i got to go...