What you need for this book

You will need a copy of Autodesk Maya 2013 for this book. Newer versions are fine, and older versions that use Python 2.6 (2011, 2012) should be acceptable as well. Any operating system capable of running Maya (Windows, OS X, Linux) should work, though you will need to translate things such as file paths to what is appropriate on your system.

I would also suggest having an install of Python 2.6 or 2.7 outside Maya for exploring and running some of the samples that can be run from the interactive interpreter prompt. You can download Python 2.6 or 2.7 from http://www.python.org/download, or it may be installed on your Mac or Linux OS already!

Finally, I strongly suggest installing both a powerful text editor and an Integrated ...

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