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Maya 8 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual Quickstart Guide
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Maya 8 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual Quickstart Guide

by Morgan Robinson, Nathaniel Stein
March 2007
Beginner content levelBeginner
544 pages
18h 55m
English
Peachpit Press
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17. MEL and Expressions

In Maya, many repetitive tasks can be made easier with Maya Embedded Language (MEL) or expressions. MEL is a scripting language that uses commands to cause Maya to do different things. Most of the tools you use in Maya create their effects by executing MEL commands. You can view these commands in the Script Editor, which makes it easy to learn the MEL commands for specific tasks (Figure 17.1). You can also use the Script Editor to write and execute MEL scripts, which consist of multiple commands executed in sequence.

Figure 17.1. The Script Editor displays the MEL commands for the tasks you perform in Maya.

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