Maya 7 for Windows & Macintosh
Maya 7 for Windows & Macintosh
ISBN: 0321348990
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 185
Pages: 185
- 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
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
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Maya 7 for Windows & Macintosh
ISBN: 0321348990
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 185
Pages: 185