{"id":1,"date":"2020-07-29T17:16:44","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T17:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/?p=1"},"modified":"2020-09-14T21:31:52","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T01:31:52","slug":"maya-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/autodesk-maya\/maya-basics\/","title":{"rendered":"Maya Basics: Project, Shortcuts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"#project\">Project<\/a> &nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"#nav\">View Navigation<\/a> &nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"#querty\">Move &#8211; Rotate &#8211; Scale<\/a> &nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"#components\">Polygon component selection<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<a name=\"project\"><\/a>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In Maya, you should always work in a project.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You want to start Maya from the Desktop Icon, Start Menu, Dock, Spotlight or however you find the program. Once the program has loaded, set your project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>If you already have a project, go to <strong>File &gt; Set Project&#8230;<\/strong> and choose the project directory<\/li><li>To create a new project, go to <strong>File &gt; Project Window<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/help.autodesk.com\/view\/MAYAUL\/2020\/ENU\/index.html?guid=GUID-D0D38081-C49D-4710-BD97-DB37AE32A92B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Maya Help on creating \/ using projects<\/a><\/li><li>Make sure to create your project on your own hard \/ flash drive<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you project is set, you can open a scene. <strong>File &gt; Open<\/strong> will get you directly to the scenes folder of your project. <strong>Avoid starting Maya by double clicking on a Maya file<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"New Project in Maya\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HQ1po35Q6aQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Creating a new project in Maya<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<a name=\"nav\"><\/a>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">View Navigation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>(LMB = Left Mouse Button, MMB = Middle Mouse Button, RMB = Right Mouse Button)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>ALT + LMB \u2192 Rotate view<\/li><li>ALT + MMB \u2192 Move \/ pan view<\/li><li>ALT + RMB \u2192 Zoom view<\/li><li>hit <strong>a<\/strong> to center everything in view (Frame All)<\/li><li>hit <strong>f<\/strong> to center selection in view (Frame Selected)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<a name=\"querty\"><\/a>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Move &#8211; Rotate &#8211; Scale: QWERTY<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The basic tools are accessible though the QWERTY keys on the top left of a standard QUERTY keyboard:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>q<\/strong> &#8211; select<\/li><li><strong>w<\/strong> &#8211; move<\/li><li><strong>e<\/strong> &#8211; rotate<\/li><li><strong>r<\/strong> &#8211; scale<\/li><li><strong>t<\/strong> &#8211; Hide manipulator<\/li><li><strong>y<\/strong> &#8211; Repeat last command (not always the one you expect)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Note that when a light or camera is selected <strong>t<\/strong> brings up the interactive controls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<a name=\"components\"><\/a>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Polygon component selection:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Right click on object to bring up selection menu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or press F9 (vertex), F10 (edges), F11 (faces) or F12 (UV).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maya interface basics, shortcuts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":43,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autodesk-maya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animation.monmouth.edu\/instruct\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}