MAXScript

MAXScript is a programming language created in 1996.

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MAXScript is the built-in scripting language in Autodesk 3ds MAX. It can be used to automate repetitive tasks as well as develop new tools and user interfaces.

MAXScript website
There are at least 2,084 MAXScript repos on GitHub
MAXScript first developed in Autodesk, Inc
file extensions for MAXScript include ms and mcr
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 321 users using MAXScript in 333 repos on GitHub
Explore MAXScript snippets on Rosetta Code
MAXScript appears in the TIOBE Index
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for MAXScript
Read more about MAXScript on the web: 1.
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Example from hello-world:

print "Hello World"
-- "Hello World"


-- Note that MAXScript is expression-based, so simply writing "Hello World" is
-- sufficient to echo it for the reader. Like Haskell, all MAXScript expressions
-- *must* return values, even if they're unused.

Example from Linguist:

fn CalculateVolumeAndCentreOfMass obj =
(
	local Volume= 0.0
	local Centre= [0.0, 0.0, 0.0]
	local theMesh = snapshotasmesh obj
	local numFaces = theMesh.numfaces
	for i = 1 to numFaces do
	(
		local Face= getFace theMesh i
		local vert2 = getVert theMesh Face.z
		local vert1 = getVert theMesh Face.y
		local vert0 = getVert theMesh Face.x
		local dV = Dot (Cross (vert1 - vert0) (vert2 - vert0)) vert0
		Volume+= dV
		Centre+= (vert0 + vert1 + vert2) * dV
	)
	delete theMesh
	Volume /= 6
	Centre /= 24
	Centre /= Volume
	#(Volume,Centre)
)

Feature	Supported	Token	Example
Strings	✓	"	"Hello world"
Print() Debugging	✓	print
Comments	✓
Semantic Indentation	X

title	authors	year	publisher
Maxscript and the Sdk for 3d Studio Max	Bicalho, Alexander and Feltman, Simon	2000	Sybex Inc
3ds Max Maxscript Essentials	Autodesk	2006	Taylor & Francis
3ds Max 8 MAXScript Essentials	Autodesk	20130502	Taylor & Francis

MAXScript - Programming language

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