2009
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Overview
- Maya Basics
- Polygonal Modeling
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lesson
- Lesson 1: Modeling a polygonal mesh
- Introduction
- Setting modeling preferences
- Using 2D reference images
- Creating a polygon primitive
- Modeling in shaded mode
- Model symmetry
- Selecting components by painting
- Selecting edge loops
- Editing components in the orthographic views
- Editing components in the perspective view
- Drawing a polygon
- Extruding polygon components
- Bridging between edges
- Adding polygons to a mesh
- Splitting polygon faces
- Terminating edge loops
- Deleting construction history
- Mirror copying a mesh
- Working with a smoothed mesh
- Creasing and hardening edges on a mesh
- Beyond the lesson
- NURBS Modeling
- Subdivision Surfaces
- Animation
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lessons
- Lesson 1: Keyframes and the Graph Editor
- Lesson 2: Set Driven Key
- Lesson 3: Path animation
- Lesson 4: Nonlinear animation with Trax
- Introduction
- Open the first scene for the lesson
- Creating clips with Trax
- Changing the position of clips with Trax
- Editing the animation of clips
- Reusing clips within Trax
- Soloing and muting tracks
- Scaling clips within Trax
- Open the second scene for the lesson
- Creating clips from motion capture data
- Extending the length of motion capture data
- Redirecting the motion within a clip
- Beyond the lesson
- Lesson 5: Inverse kinematics
- Introduction
- Open the scene for the lesson
- Understanding hierarchies
- Viewing hierarchies using the Hypergraph
- Creating a skeleton hierarchy
- Parenting a model into a skeleton hierarchy
- Applying IK to a skeleton hierarchy
- Creating a control object for an IK system
- Constraining an IK system
- Limiting the range of motion of an IK system
- Simplifying the display of a hierarchy
- Applying parent constraints on an IK system
- Planning an animation for an IK system
- Animating an IK system
- Beyond the lesson
- Character Setup
- Polygon Texturing
- Rendering
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lessons
- Lesson 1: Rendering a scene
- Introduction
- Open the scene for the lesson
- Creating shading materials for objects
- Refining shading materials for objects
- Maya renderers
- Rendering a single frame using IPR
- Rendering using the Maya software renderer
- Batch rendering a sequence of animation frames
- Viewing a sequence of rendered frames
- Beyond the lesson
- Lesson 2: Shading surfaces
- Lesson 3: Lights, shadows, and cameras
- Lesson 4: Global Illumination
- Lesson 5: Caustics
- Dynamics
- Painting
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lessons
- Lesson 1: Painting in 2D using Paint Effects
- Lesson 2: Painting in 3D using Paint Effects
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lessons
- Brushes and strokes
- Rendering Paint Effects strokes
- Paint Effects on 3D objects
- Creating a surface to paint on
- Painting on objects
- Using turbulence with brush stroke tubes
- Using additional preset brushes
- Mesh brushes
- Converting mesh strokes to polygons
- Modifying a converted polygonal mesh
- Beyond the lesson
- Lesson 3: Painting textures on surfaces
- Expressions
- Scripting in Maya
- Index
Preparing for the lessons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503
Lesson 1: Painting in 2D using Paint Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503
Painting strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504
Modifying the default brush settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506
Modifying the canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508
Modifying the colors of a preset brush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509
Editing strokes with tubes attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510
Saving brush settings for future use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511
Blending brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512
Smearing, blurring, and erasing paint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513
Beyond the lesson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515
Lesson 2: Painting in 3D using Paint Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516
Preparing for the lessons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517
Brushes and strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518
Rendering Paint Effects strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525
Paint Effects on 3D objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529
Creating a surface to paint on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530
Painting on objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533
Using turbulence with brush stroke tubes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535
Using additional preset brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536
Mesh brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538
Converting mesh strokes to polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540
Modifying a converted polygonal mesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542
Beyond the lesson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546
Lesson 3: Painting textures on surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548
Open the scene for the lesson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548
Preparing for painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549
Painting with an Artisan brush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551
Painting symmetrical strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552
Using Flood All to apply a single color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553
Brush shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553
Painting with a Paint Effects brush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555
Smearing and blurring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557
Painting a bump map texture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558
Beyond the lesson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561
Chapter 12
Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565
Preparing for the lessons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566
Lesson 1: Creating a simple expression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567
Creating expressions to control a single attribute . . . . . . . . . 567
Editing expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570
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