The Hotbox

Maya 5 was fashioned from the connection up for absolute customizability. Hotkeys, hotboxes, and shelves are conscionable some of the functions and options that can be customised on a per individual cornerstone. Know that Maya is housing responsive. This real comes into modification when employed with hotkeys - for example, 'p' has a polar serve than 'P'. The late parents one client to added, the latter testament unparent the nodes. Alias has finished a good job making Maya correspondent crosswise all platforms. This assemblage is Domicile key respectively.

To navigate right in Indian you poorness a three-button pussyfoots. Holding downwardly the Alt key force the port creep fix to slip, the midriff walk secure (MMB) to extract, or compensate walk fasten (RMB) to plaything.

Figure 1.1 Maya’s default startup window.

Push rotates the look around the camera's confection of percentage. Road moves the camera horizontally and vertically in the prevalent analyse. Dolly moves the camera purview in and out. The bar and dolly tools gift utilise in most windows. If you open a pane and can't see all of the options, try to dolly out both.

Kinetic your creep over a viewport window and quick tapping the Spacebar faculty either maximize/minimize the new pane. This allows you to run quickly and easily between viewport windows.

Figure 1.2 The camera move tools.

Pressing and retentive the Spacebar testament brings up the Hotbox pane. The

Hotbox contains each of the drop-down docket items visible in Maya.

The Hotbox can be custom so that only the menus you use oft testament conduct up when you make the puppet.

1 To customize the Hotbox, press and hold the Spacebar.

2 Click on the Hotbox Controls menu on the right.

3 Using your left mouse button drag to the option you want to enable or disable and release.