The MEL Companion: Maya Scripting for 3D Artists (Charles River Media Graphics)

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Debugging scripts, 32-33, 79-82

Declaring variables , 42-46

Decrementing variables, 51-52

Deformers, 110-111, 116-117

Degrees, working with, 27

Delta (”) vector, 19-20

Density slider, 326-327

Dialogs

Confirm dialog, 272-273

creating modal, 309-313

File dialog command, 424-425

File dialog, 424

Progress window, 272, 274-275

Prompt dialog, 272, 273-274

using in place of passed variable, 310-311. See also Windows

Dimensions of matrices, 46

Directories

/other, 365, 367

/startup, 352

Disabled menu items, 348-349

Distance between points, 20

Dividers on custom menus , 347. See also Separators

Dividing variables, 50

Dodecahedrons, 86

Dot product of vectors, 24

Do-while loop, 57

Driven key animation, 224-226

Dynamic UI creation, 313-321

Dynamics menu global variables, 351