The bare minimum plug-in to use the MDt functions consist of:

• initializing the internal database
• walking the Maya scene graph and populating the database
• freeing the internal database

The following code snippet shows the functions that would need to be called. This snippet doesn’t actually output anything. There would normally be additional calls to customize the method of populating the internal database and actual calls to retrieve and output the data itself. This is just a sample.

// Initialize the internal database with a scene “name”

DtExt_SceneInit( “basic” );

//Now we can setup the database from the wire file geometry

DtExt_dbInit();

// Clean house.

DtExt_CleanUp();