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Getting Started with Maya

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Table of Contents

1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

About the Getting Started lessons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Before you begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Installing Maya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Conventions used in the lessons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Using the lesson files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Using the Maya Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Additional learning resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Restoring default user settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

2 Maya Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Preparing for the lessons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Lesson 1

The Maya user interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Starting Maya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

The Maya interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Saving your work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Exiting Maya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Beyond the lesson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Lesson 2

Creating, manipulating, and viewing objects . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Creating a new scene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Primitive objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

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The Toolbox: Layout shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

The Toolbox: Transformation tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

The Channel Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Duplicating objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Creating a project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Save your work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Beyond the lesson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Lesson 3

Viewing the Maya 3D scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Camera tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Workflow overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Viewing objects in shaded mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Grouping objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

The Hypergraph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Selection modes and masks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Pivot points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Save your work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Beyond the lesson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Lesson 4

Components and attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Template display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

The Attribute Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Surface materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Save your work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Beyond the lesson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

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3 Polygonal Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Preparing for the lesson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Lesson 1

Modeling a polygonal mesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Setting modeling preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Using 2D reference images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Creating a polygon primitive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Modeling in shaded mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Model symmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Selecting components by painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Selecting edge loops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Editing components in the orthographic views . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Editing components in the perspective view . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Drawing a polygon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Extruding polygon components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Bridging between edges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Adding polygons to a mesh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Splitting polygon faces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Terminating edge loops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Deleting construction history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Mirror copying a mesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Working with a smoothed mesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Creasing and hardening edges on a mesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Beyond the lesson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

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