Walter GORDY

Start a new file or just start Maya.

We'll start with a polygon cube.

In the command line at the bottom of Maya type

polyCube;

Hit enter. You'll notice a cube now appears in Maya. I'll zoom in to see it.

Now we can resize it just by typing in another command.

scale 20 .5 20;

Now we have a large squashed cube. Neat huh?
Lets move onto putting in more than 1 line at a time.

You'll need to open a new window called the Script Editor. Its the button on the botton right that looks like this.

You'll get another window. The only trick to entering in scripts here is that you need to press the number key enter instead of the regular enter.

$i = 0; 
while($i++ < 10)
{
  polyCube; 
  scale 20 .1 20;
  move 0 $i 0;
} 

Alright, now we have 10 thin cubes right right straight up in a row.

$ is how you make a variable. If you're not familiar with programming a variable can be anything really. You can use a variable to hold values instead of typing them over and over. Lets make a more complicated script to make a lot of cube in a pattern. Well need 3 variable for this.

Alright, now we have 10 thin cubes right right straight up in a row.

$ is how you make a variable. If you're not familiar with programming a variable can be anything really. You can use a variable to hold values instead of typing them over and over. Lets make a more complicated script to make a lot of cube in a pattern. Well need 3 variable for this.

$i = 0; 
while($i++ < 10)
{ 
   $j = 0; 
   while($j++ < 10)
   { 
     $k = 0;
     while($k++ < 10)
     {
       polyCube;
       scale .3 .3 .3; 
       move ($j-5.5) ($i-5.5) ($k-5.5);
    } 
  }
}