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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
which UV shells are combined and which shells are not when you have many
UV shells displayed in the UV Texture Editor.
If you want to be able to view areas where UV shells overlap in the UV Texture
Editor select Image > Shade UVs. When Shade UVs is turned on any selected
UV shells appear shaded in a semitransparent fashion. Areas where the shading
appears more opaque indicate the regions of shell overlap.
In the steps that follow, you reposition the two UV shells in the UV Texture
Editor so they coincide with the texture image.
Moving UV components
You manually reposition UV components in the UV Texture Editor using the
tools within the Toolbox. To reposition an individual UV component you
must first select it before selecting the Move Tool. To reposition an entire UV
shell you must first select one individual UV from the shell it belongs to and
then convert the selection to a shell before using the Move Tool.
To move UVs in the UV Texture Editor
1 In the UV Texture Editor, select Image > Display Image.
The texture image displays in the 2D view of the UV Texture Editor
dimmed, as before. You need the image displayed so you can accurately
reposition the two UV shells. Dimming the image aids in seeing the
selected UVs.
2 In the UV Texture Editor, right-click and select UV from the marking
menu that appears.
3 In the UV Texture Editor, select one UV on the UV shell you sewed earlier
in the lesson.
The UV coordinate appears highlighted in the 2D view.
4 Convert the selection to a UV shell by pressing the Ctrl key and
right-clicking in the 2D view of the UV Texture Editor. Choose To Shell
from the marking menu that appears.
The selection changes from a single selected UV to selecting the entire
UV shell.
5 From the UV Texture Editor menu, select Tool > Move UV Shell Tool >
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