Appendix

This Appendix presents several advanced topics in MAXScript. As you gain experience with MAXScript and write more complex scripts, you will find the need for the tools shown here. If you are new to MAXScript, these concepts will be more useful after you have gained some experience with the language.

Debugging and Error Trapping and Handling

When you write a script with more than a few lines of code, it’s not unusual for the script to have one or more errors. This section covers the process of finding and fixing errors in scripts.

Debugging is the general process of locating and correcting errors in your script. Error trapping is the catching of errors within the script, and error handling is the means by which these errors are managed. ...

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