Technical Notes: Week 6/break

I planned to learn much more Maya over the break but alas, I got very sick. 

 

Random notes from lamp tut: 

g - go to previous tool

always go back and forth between smooth preview and not (keys 3& 1), to check for errors

mesh display > reverse to reverse faces

Notes from the Introduction to Maya resource on Learn and this YouTube tutorial

The YouTube video is effective at guiding you through the UI very slowly. I got about an hour in.

I've updated some notes on my master post and made some of them clearer. 

• I added some snapping shortcuts and noted that these can also be toggled using the magnet icons at the top (imgs yet to be added).
• Shortcuts+ for pivot point adjustment and duplication methods.
• Special Duplication can be used for making repeating copies in equal distances apart e.g. wood plank surface 
• Info about referencing images - file placement and importing.
• I realised that the shortcuts for the main selection and transformation tools are the first keys on the keyboard - QWER. That's cool.
• Display mode shortcuts copy and pasted from the Learn resource that I will probably rewrite for my own brain later.
• Added more details on the Layer Editor toggles (img could be useful for this too)
• Right click to change Component Mode i.e.  what you can select: object, faces, edges, vertices, etc.