Besides being context-sensitive, I also recall the API being weirdly designed w.r.t. mutable variables, global state, and so on. The kind of stuff you expect to

Besides being context-sensitive, I also recall the API being weirdly designed w.r.t. mutable variables, global state, and so on. The kind of stuff you expect to see when someone who is not primarily a programmer, but is instead an artist or something, designs an API (which I would guess may be what happened). In the end I was able to get what I wanted (a script which would spawn a bunch of geometric objects according to a procedural function, set the scene, and ray trace a frame) but it took a bunch of weird incantations in a mix of API idioms.