MEL Scripting & Maya’s C++ API

Why do I care?

Purpose: adding functionality to maya that doesn’t exist

CODE EXAMPLE

Part 1: Programming in MEL

Part 2: Writing Plug-ins in C++

Maya Plug-in Wizard for Visual Studio

http://www.highend3d.com/f/4139.html
Maya Libraries located in maya/x.x.x/include and

How Maya Stores/Represents Data

Accessing Nodes

Maya node types:
Subclasses of MFn::Type
MFn::kMesh, MFn::kTransform, MFn::kLambert, etc.
Accessed using maya

Using iterators: example

Great. Now how do I do something useful with this?

Use “function

The Easier Way

Download a plug-in that’s already been written:
http://www.highend3d.com/maya/downloads/plugins/