CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1 AN INTRODUCTION TO THE MAYA EMBEDDED LANGUAGE -- I THE MAYA EMBEDDED LANGUAGE -- 2 A PRIMER ON MATHEMATICS -- 3 MEL BASICS -- 4 AN INTRODUCTION TO PROGRAMMING CONCEPTS -- 5 THE SCRIPT FILE -- II Working With MEL -- 6 GEOMETRY -- 7 ANIMATION -- 8 EXPRESSIONS -- 9 LIGHTING AND RENDERING -- 10 CREATING TOOLS IN MAYA -- 11 CUSTOMIZING THE MAYA INTERFACE -- 12 FILE HANDLING IN MEL -- 13 YOUR JOURNEY BEGINS HERE: A FINAL WORD ON MEL -- A ABOUT THE CD- ROM -- B WEB RESOURCES -- INDEX.