The MAXScript engine represents values using the class Value or a derived class. The Value class is defined in the file maxscrpt\value.h. The MAXScript engine also uses wrapper classes to act as proxies for objects in the 3ds Max SDK. These wrapper classes derive from the MAXWrapper class which is defined in the file maxscrpt\maxobj.h. The MAXWrapper class derives from both Value and ReferenceTarget. Some examples of proxy classes include MAXObject, MAXNode, MAXModifier, and MAXControl.

Virtually all MAXScript API functions and macros pass Value (or derived class) instances by pointer.

All non-static instances of the Value class family should be heap-allocated with operator new() or one of the following helper functions so that garbage collection will work:

• Float::intern()
• Integer::intern()
• Name::intern()
• Name::find_intern()
• MSTime::intern()