I wanted to write this post for a long time now. In my free time I also do 3D stuff like models and various other things. While doing these I came across Autodesk Maya and from a developer's perspective I like it a lot. It's one remarkable piece of software. Over the years it just kept growing and getting better. Today it has a huge variety of features and amazing support for developing various new components for it. I will start with the basics. Surprisingly for a program it has it's own dedicated scripting and programming language called Maya Embedded Language or MEL. In reality the entire application is just one interpreter that reads these MEL scripts to generate the user interface. As you have guessed by now, the entire user interface is written in MEL. It looks a lot like php and it has some special functions called commands which interact with Maya. With these commands we can add new menus or even edit 3D objects inside it. The partial script bellow is writte