3ds Max MAXScript Essentials, 2nd Edition

Appendix

This Appendix presents several advancedtopics in MAXScript. As you gain experiencewith MAXScript and write more complexscripts, you will find the need for the toolsshown here. If you are new to MAXScript,these concepts will be more useful after youhave gained some experience with thelanguage.

Code Editors

Central to writing scripts is the development environment. The source code is written in an ASCII text editor. In its simplest form, a text editor supports basic functionality like copy, paste, and replace. Windows Notepad is one such example. Although you could write a script in Notepad it would be far from ideal. A specialize text editor, or code editor, would be much better. The MAXScript Editor is one such example. It is integrated ...