Table of Contents

Maya 7 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual Quickstart Guide
By Danny Riddell,, Morgan Robinson,, Nathaniel Stein
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Publisher: Peachpit Press
Pub Date: April 12, 2006
Print ISBN-10: 0-321-34899-0
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-321-34899-9
Pages: 560

Table of Contents  | Index

		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