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Maya 7 for Windows & Macintosh

ISBN: 0321348990
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2006
Pages: 185

Authors: Danny Riddell, Morgan Robinson, Nathaniel Stein

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• Maya 7 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual Quickstart Guide
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter i. Introduction
• Who Is This Book For?
• What You Will Need
• Maya Versions and Flavors
• Additional Resources
• Chapter 1. Maya Basics
• About Maya
• Maya s Interface
• Beginning a Project
• Importing, Exporting, and Referencing
• Maya Help
• Chapter 2. Navigating and Changing the Interface
• Dollying, Tracking, and Tumbling
• Using the View Menu
• Changing the Layout
• Changing the Interface
• About Display Options and Smoothness
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Chapter 3. Creating Primitives and Text
• About Primitive Types
• About NURBS Primitives
• About Polygon Primitives
• About Subdiv Primitives
• About Text
• Naming Objects
• About Construction History
• Chapter 4. Transforming Objects and Components
• Moving, Rotating, and Scaling Objects
• About Pivot Points
• Duplication Options
• Mirroring and Instancing Objects
• SoftModifying Objects
• Chapter 5. Selection Modes, Hiding, and Templating
• Selecting Objects
• Selection Modes and Masks
• Using Quick Select Sets
• Hiding and Templating
• About Layers
• Chapter 6. Grouping, Parenting, and Aligning
• Grouping
• Parenting
• Grouping vs. Parenting
• Aligning and Snapping Objects
• The Snap Align Tools
• Chapter 7. Nurbs Curves and Surfaces
• About NURBS Objects
• About Nurbs Curves
• Creating NURBS Curves
• Editing NURBS Curves
• Opening, Closing, and Attaching Curves
• Altering Whole Curves
• Interactions Between Curves
• Circular 2D fillets
• Creating Surfaces from Curves
• Surface Curves and Trims
• Modifying and Matching NURBS Surfaces
• Chapter 8. Polygons
• Modeling Polygons
• Creating and Deleting Polygon Components
• Splitting and Merging Polygon Components
• Subdividing and Merging
• Refining Polygons
• Surface Normals and Display
• Chapter 9. Subdiv Surfaces
• Subdiv Surface Components
• Refining Subdiv Surfaces
• Creasing Subdiv Surfaces
• Mirroring and Subdivs
• Subdiv Hierarchies
• Working in Polygon Mode
• Sculpting Subdivs
• Chapter 10. Skeletons And Rigging
• About Joints
• Adjusting Hierarchies
• About IK Handles and Solvers
• About Spline IK
• About Constraints
• The Connection Editor
• Basic Rigging
• Chapter 11. Parenting and Binding to a Skeleton
• Parenting to a Skeleton
• Using Rigid Bind
• Editing rigid skins
• Using Smooth Bind
• Editing smooth skins
• Chapter 12. Animation
• Animation Controls
• About Setting Keyframes
• Setting Animation Preferences
• Importing Sound Files
• About the Graph Editor
• About the Dope Sheet
• Muting Animation Channels
• Ghosting
• Path Animation
• About the Trax Editor
• Previewing Your Animation
• Chapter 13. Deformers
• Nonlinear Deformers
• Blend Shapes
• Lattices
• Clusters
• Sculpt Deformers
• Jiggle Deformers
• Wire Deformers
• Wrinkle Deformers
• Wrap Deformers
• About Deformer Weights
• About the Deformation Order
• Hiding, Showing, and Deleting Deformers
• Chapter 14. Shaders, Materials, and Mapping
• About the Hypershade
• About IPR Renders
• About Materials
• About Texture-Mapping NURBS Surfaces
• Combining Materials
• About Projection Maps
• About Texturing Polygons
• Editing UVs
• Swimming Textures
• Texturing Using Painting Tools
• Chapter 15. Creating Lights
• About Lighting
• Setting Up for Lighting
• About Lights
• Mapping Images to Lights
• Looking Through a Light
• Light Linking
• About Shadows
• Chapter 16. Cameras and Rendering
• About Cameras
• About Rendering
• About the Maya Software Renderer
• About the Maya Hardware Renderer
• About the Maya Vector Renderer
• About Mental Ray
• About Render Layers
• Chapter 17. MEL and Expressions
• About the Script Editor
• About MEL Commands
• About Variables
• About Loops and If Statements
• About Procedures
• Using MEL Scripts
• Using Expressions
• Chapter 18. Dynamics
• Particles
• Emitters
• Render Types
• Fields
• Collisions
• Rigid-Body Dynamics
• Soft-Body Dynamics
• Effects
• The Dynamic Relationships Editor
• Index
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• D
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• F
• G
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