Preface

In the last three years, the pace of updates to Maya has accelerated. New features seem to appear every few months. However, the foundation of Maya, consisting of MEL and the dependency graph, remains largely unchanged.

This second edition serves to bring MEL Scripting for Maya Animators up to date with the interface changes that have taken place between Maya 4.5, with which the first edition was written, and Maya 6. Certain regrettable omissions, such as a chapter on formLayout, have been corrected. Known errors have been fixed. Also, new chapters on utility nodes and Maya’s Web Panel feature provide some new ideas for how to use MEL in one’s applications.

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