Autodesk Maya API White Paper
Introduction
The Maya® Software Development Kit (SDK) contains a rich set of facilities that can help you add new functionality to the Maya software. The SDK includes a C++ API called the Maya API that provides functionality for querying and changing the Maya model along with the ability to add new Maya objects to the Maya model. In addition, the SDK contains Python® bindings to the Maya API. These bindings allow a developer to call the Maya API from Python. We refer to this as the Maya Python API. Using either API, you can add new elements to Maya such as: commands( accessible from MEL [Maya Embedded Language] or Python script), file translators, shaders, animation nodes, 3D graphical manipulators, geometry shapes, types of deformations, dynamic fields, particle emitters, inverse-kinematic solvers and any type of custom node.
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