Notes 02

Manipulation tools

• Q key - Selection Tool (Quitter Tool?)
• W key - Move Tool
• E key - Rotation Tool
• R key - Scale Tool

Framing (to zoom in/out so that we can see everything)

• A key - Frame view in current viewport
• Shift+A key - Frame view in all viewports

Take a screenshot in Mac

• Cmd+Shift+F3

Renderings

• '4' Key - Wireframe
• '5' Key - Shaded
• '6' Key - Shaded with Texture
• '7' Key - Lighting

Viewport Navigation

• Alt+LMB - Rotate
• Alt+MMB - Pan/Move
• Alt+RMB - Zoom in/out
• MMB: Activate a viewport
• Holding space key gives you a variety of menus to navigate to.

Sphere subdivisions

Use 8 - magic number.

Parenting

• Either use Modify -> Outliner, or Modify -> Hierarchy.
• Good to have all the parts renamed so that it is much more clearer which object is which.
• Also before parenting, freeze transformation by going to Modify -> Freeze Transformation (clean the value, no residue)
• MMB to drag object A to object B, thus parenting A to B.

Coping with different Maya versions

• File -> Open Scene [] -> Ignore Version
• Save as .ma, in case of version incompatibility with .mb