ThisbookisaguidetousingthePythonscriptinglanguagetoautomatetasksin,andbuildtoolsfor,Maya.ThefirsttwochaptersprovideanoverviewofPythonscriptinginMayaandthebasicsofUIcreation.Fromthere,chaptersthreethroughseveneachcoveradifferentproblemdomain,inroughlythesameorderthattheyareencounteredinreal-worldprojects.Westartwithmodeling,movingthroughtexturing,rigging,animation,andrendering.Thelastthreechapterscovertopicsneededtofleshoutscriptsintofulltoolpipelines,includingfileinputandoutputandcommunicatingwiththeworldoutsideofMayaviatheWeb.Inthelastchapter,we'llcoverafewmoreadvancedtopics,suchasscriptnodesandscriptjobs.
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