Maya 2012 Scripting & API

Autodesk® Maya® computer animation software delivers an end-to-end original work-flow with comprehensive tools for animation, modeling, visual effects, rendering, and compositing on a highly extensible manufacture platform. Autodesk® Maya® 2012 software delivers latest features and toolsets for previsualization and games prototyping, extended simulation capabilities, plus improved pipeline integration. It delivers view-port and sequencer enhancements, node-based render passes, editable motion trails, and an original library of 80 Substance procedural textures.

Maya 2012 is an open, highly extensible application. You can make scripts and write plug-ins to increase efficiency, modify features, and create competitive differentiation.

• Choose from the artist-friendly Maya 2012 Embedded Language (MEL) or the highly-extensible Python® scripting language.
• Write Maya 2012 plug-ins and stand-alone applications that run from the Maya 2012 command line in C++ or Python.
• Develop latest types of Maya 2012 objects, including file translators, hardware shaders, surface shapes, manipulators and locators, plus scriptable commands.

Learn more in the Developer Center.