Understanding Objects and Classes

Chapter 4

MAXScript is a very powerful scriptinglanguage that has many principles ofobject-oriented programming. Byrecognizing these principles, you can gainfurther insight and understanding into howMAXScript works, thus opening the door toadvanced scripting.In this chapter, the MAXScript ReferenceHelp is also discussed.

Objectives

After completing this chapter, you should be able to:

  • Understand objects in the MAXScript context.
  • Identify an object’s class.
  • Use the MAXScript Reference to determine an object’s properties and methods.
  • Understand MAXScript grammar and syntax.

Introduction

Fundamental to writing scripts is an understanding of the class structure used within MAXScript. Rather than attempting to ...

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