Maya API Basics

Concept

• MObjects
  • class to handle all kinds of data in Maya
  • a handle object pointing to actual data
  • typeless
• Function Sets
  • work with mobject
• Wrappers
  • allocated and deallocated by you
• Proxies
  • used to create custom maya objects (i.e. MPxNode, MPxDeformerNode)

Resources

• Maya API Programming by Chad Vernon