Differences in Control Interface

LightWave offers a Ctrl+Shift pop-up dialog box as a workflow enhancer so that you can use the left, middle, or right mouse button to open a dialog box. This feature is very similar to Maya's marking menus, but in Maya you can have dozens of them assigned to keyboard combinations, and the same menu will appear regardless of the mouse button you click. Maya's marking menus are mostly user -defined. This book includes a set of modeling marking menus to get you started on creating your own enhanced hotkeys. Maya also offers the "Hotbox" ”access to all functions in one overlay that's activated with the spacebar. Many Maya users leave the interface hidden except for the 3D panels and rely on the Hotbox and their marking menus for most of their work.