Learning dutodesk" Maya"

Foundation 1

Table of Contents

Understanding Maya

Project oi Lesson 01 Primitives - Lesson 02 Adding Details

Lesson 03 Shaders and Textures

Lesson 04 Animation Basics 95

Lesson 05 Working with Maya 111

Lesson 06 The Dependency Graph 147

Lesson 07 Polygonal Modeling 173

Lesson 08 Polygonal Texturing 205

Lesson og Skeleton 221

Lesson 10 Skinning 239

Lesson 11 Blend Shapes 257

Lesson 12 Inverse Kinematics

Lesson 13 Rigging

Lesson 14 Animation 305

8 Project 03 L L Lesson 15 NURBS Modeling

i bsson 16 NURBS Texturing . 5

fi Lesson 17 Rigging Lesson 18 Paint Effects

Lesson ig Deformers

Lesson 20 Lights and Effects

Lesson 21 Rendering

Lesson 22

Lesson 23

Lesson 24

Lesson 25 a- -

Lesson 26 #&amier

Lesson 27 Motion Path

Lesson 28 Particles

Lesson 29 MEL Scripting

Project OS

Lesson 30 er Layers

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Index

Actions l41 active rigid body 504 Add Attribute 296,555 Add Noise 607,624 Affect Selected Object(s)

506,538 Aim constraint 295 Air 532 All Inputs 405 alpha channel 89 Animate 622 Animation 122

Animation Clip 325 Animation menu set 104 Animation Preferences

104.504 Anti-aliasing 418 arrows hotkeys 108 Artisan Sculpt Tool 258 As Action 141 Assign Existing Material 532 Assume Preferred Angle 250 As Tool 141

Attach Surfaces 345

Backgroud Color 585 Bake 324 Bake Channel 324 base display level 454 Batch Render 435,587,420 batch renderer 418 Bend 401

Bend deformer 401 Blend Brush 389 Blending brushes 388 Blend Shading 389 Blend shape 266 Blur length 419 BOX ~ l u r 603 Branch 590

Cache Data 514 Cache Meter 617 Cancel Batch Render 420 Canvas Undo 385 Casts Shadows 4 ~ 5 Center o f mass 507,513 Center Pivot 70,101 Channel Box 130 Channel Control 130,299 Channel drop-off options 134 Channels 386 Channel speed controls 134 Character Clips 326 Character Set 381 Checker 207 ~

child nodes 97 Circle 283 Clean Topology 457 Clear Canvas 384 Clear History 552 Clips 590 clip source 326 Close Workspace 613 Clusters 28, 397 Color Correction 601

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1 Delete EdgeIVertex 189

Delete hlstory 72, 345 Delete targets 267

Delete Unused Nodes 218

dependencies 159

Dependency Graph 147

Depth Map Shadows 414

Detach Sk~n 246

Detach Surfaces 343

Dlscreet Color Corrector 601,

602,605,621

Display Coarser 454

D~splay lmage 209

Dlsplay Level 454,456

Display Percent 388

D~splay Qual~ty 595

Dlsplay Tlme 617

Dolly Blur 6 0 4

Down arrow l o g

Echo All Commands 554

edge loop 187

edge ring 187

Edge Ring Utilities 190

Emission Angle 612

Emitter Type 531

end joints 3 0 0

End Time 476

EP Curve 288

EP Curve Tool 7 0

Export Selected Network 468

Expression Editor 556

Falloff Curve ~ C J U

fcheck 4 2 0

fcheck help 421

fcurves 106

File 88

file texture 87,89

Fill Hole 69

Filter Size 416

Fit in Window 593

Flare 402

Flare deformer 402

Flexors 31

Flood 261

Footage Library 6 0 0

geoconnector 539

Geometry Mask 543,584

Get Brush 384,386 Get Settings from Selected

Stroke 390

Glow 608,621

Graph editor 106, 311

Gravity 505

grayscale 248

Ik Fk Control 292

IK Handle 29

IK Handle Tool 282

hardware lighting 412

Hardware rendering 543

Hardware Texturing 85

Has No Effect 407

Hidden Nodes 299

Hide Selection 54

history 71 -

Hotbox 123

Hotbox Controls 9 6

Hotbox Styles 126

Hotkey Editor 562 Hotkeys

g 67 Ctrl + a 131

e 129

F1 122

F2 122

IK rotate plane 29

ikRPsolver 273

IK single chain 29

IK solution 378

IK spline 29

IK spline solver 3 0

lmage output 419

lmage Plane 385

Import File 469

Import lmage 385

Import shaders 467

Infinite undo 9 6

Infinity 322

influence 248

lnfo Palette 598

inheritance 100

. L\ Initial State 512, 533 Input and Output Connections

87 input field 372

Insert Edge Loop Tool 188,191

lnsert lsoparms 346

Insert Keys Tool 31;

Interface 590

Jiggle deformer 297

joints 28

Joint Size 230

Joint Tool 372

Keep layers 586

keyframe manipulator 105

keyframes 107

Lattice binding 245

lattice deformer 197

Lattice Point 198

Lattices 27

left-hand rule 235

Lens flare 417

Lens Flare 608

Lifespan 532, 536

Light Effects 417

light fog 416

light glow 417

Lighting 32

Lights 92

Lights and shadows 576

Limit Information 254

Limits 253

List input 405

Local rotation axes 234

Locator 294

lock and hide 380

Lock and Hide Selected 299

Magnitude 505

Main Menubar 96

Maintain Offset 276

Make Collide 538

Make Live 162

Make Not Live 164

Make Paintable 386

manipulators 126

Marking Menu Editor 562

mask 540, 577 Mass 512

mathematical expression 321

Matte Opacity 583

Maximum Displacement 262

Maya Embedded Language 548

Maya Hardware 437

Maya Vector 436

MEL 548

mental ray 434

Menu sets 121

Merge Edge Tool 196

Mirror 606

Mirror Behavior 192

Mirror Geometry 196

Nested layers 599

New Layer 610

New Scene 340

No-manipulator 132

Non-Deformer History 72

Nonlinear deformers 401

Normal constraint 524

No-visual manipulator 133

Numeric Input 135

NURBS curves 24

ObjGct MO& 53, 137

Offset Edge Loop Tool 188

Opacity 621

Open/Close Surfaces 358

Open Image 384

Operator order 623

operators 621

Operators 590,597

Optimize Scene Size 218

orient constraint 277

Orient constraint 27;

Orient joint 234

Paint Canvas 384

Paint Effects 213,384

Paint Effects Tool 387

Paint Effects to Polygons 394

Paint Jiggle Weights Tool 298

Paint Set Membership Tool 397

Pant Skln weights 2 4

Pan Blur 604

Pane Menubars 9 6

Parent g9

Parent Binding 240

Parent constram 509

Parent constraint 283 Parent Joint 229

parent nodes 97 Part~cle Coll~sion Event Edi

539 Particle effects 609

Particle Render Type 532

Particles 24,590

passive rigid body 504

path 165

path marker 522

Per Particle Attribute 536 PerspIOutliner 289

Phong 87

Pick chooser 138

Pinch 606

pivot 69

Pivot placement 102

Planar Mapping 208,467

Plane 59

Playback controls 103,595

Playback End T~me 476

Playback preferences 104 :

Playback Speed 104, 312 , Playback Start T~me 476

playblast 395, 482

Play Every Frame 299, 531

Plug-~ns Manager 434

Polnt Constraln 374.

Po~nt constralnt 276

~ o l n t ~ ~ g h t 411

Polnt on Curve 397

poles 341

Pole Vector constralnt 283

polygonal 24

polygonal menu 189

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INDEX

polygonal mesh 26 Preferences 617 preload Frame 612 premultiplied Color Channel 618 procedure 557 Process tree 590

Queue size 96 Quick Select Set 290 QWERTY 126

rad~al menu 58 Ramp 216 randomness 536 Range Sl~der 103 Raytrace 577 Raytrace Shadow 541 Raytraclng 33, 34 Real S~ze 93 Real-t~me 104 Rearrage Graph 85 Recelve Shadows 415 Reference 477 reference surface 261 Relat~onsh~p Edrtors 291 Reload F~le Textures 215 Remove from Character Set 303 Rename 372 render 91 Render 625 Renderable 585 Renderable camera 577 Render All Layers 586 Render Current Frame 386, 533 Render~ng 31 Render layers 579 Render passes 579 Render quallty 577 Render resolut~on 577

Render Settings 418 Render Stats 471 Reroot Skeleton 226 Resilience 539 resolution 91 Resolution Gate 91 Reverse foot 274

Save 55,60 Save As 55 Save Brush Preset 390 Save Canvas 385 Save Preferences 97 Save Scene As 55 Save Settings 376 Save Texture on Stroke 215 Save Textures 215 Save Workspace 594,625 scale 52 Scale Tool 51 Scene hierarchy mode i37 Screen Projection 214 Script Editor 420,552 Sculpt objects 27 Sculpt Polygons Tool 264 seam 340 Secondary animation 524 select 54,128 Select

add 129 Select All by Type 300 select components 53 Select Edge Loop Tool 189 Select Hierarchy loo,lOl Selection Handles 164 Selection masks 136 Selection modes 137 Selection Priority 138 Selection sets 289 Select Set Members 290 semicolon 550

Set Active Key 512 Set Driven Keys 244, 278 Set Erase Texture 212

Set Key 104 Set Passive Key 512 Set Preferred Angle 249 Set Project 340 Sets 291 Shading groups 31 Shadows 414 shape node 149 Share One Brush 388,389 Sharpen 604 Shelves 122

Shift gesture 129 Show 233 ShowAll 54 Show Batch Render 435 Show Last Hidden 54 Show Manipulator Tool 413 Simulation cache 514

. Sine 402 Sine deformer 402 Single chain solver 29 Skeletons 28 Skinning 30 slider 566 Smoke library 611 Smooth 67 Smooth Bind 248 Smooth binding 248 Snap rotate 236 snap t o curve 349 Snap t o Point 275 Soften Edges 195 Soft Modikat ion 127,399 Soft normals 195 Software rendering 541 Sphere 340 Standard 452 Surfaces 122

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INDEX

Tangent linear 524 Tangents 312 Tangent spline 524

tear off 121

Text Editor 557 Texture maps 32 Texture Reference Object 466 tick 105 timeline 103, 596 Time Slider 103 To Edge Ring and Split 190 Toolbar 595 Toolbox 52 TOOIS 140 Transfer Mode 613,620 Transform manipulators 127 Turbulence 607,622

UI Elements 96,120,548 Undo 56, g6 Unfold 210

Universal Manipulator 127 unparent 100,510 Up arrow 109 Use all Available Processors

435,587 Use All Lights 412

User Marking Menus 562

Vertex 53,58 vertices 26, 53 view axis 56 Viewport 594 virtual slider 68, 266 Visibility layers 289,380

walk cycle 307 Wave 403 Wire deformer 395,403 wireframe 58 Wireframe on Shaded 555 Wire Tool 395 Workspace 590,596

Wrap 470

Symbols 2D Composite 592,617 3D paint tool 211

3D Paint Tool 212

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