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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
Painting with an Artisan brush
In the following steps, you paint various colors on the texture you just
assigned. You also change the size of the brush strokes.
There are two types of brushes you can use. The default is the Artisan brush,
which you’ll use in the next steps. (Artisan refers to a group of painting tools
in Maya that share common tool settings.) The other brush is based on the
Paint Effects brushes; you’ll use it later in the lesson.
To paint using an Artisan brush
1 If you have a tablet and pen, you can experiment with pressure sensitivity
as you paint. Open the Stylus Pressure section and turn on Stylus Pressure.
(You do not need to have a tablet and pen to complete the lesson.)
By default, when you paint with Artisan brushes, the pressure you apply
to the pen affects the Opacity setting of the 3D Paint Tool. The harder
you press, the more opaque the stroke.
2 In the Color section of the Tool Settings, click the box next to Color and
select a color in the Color Chooser. Leave the Color Chooser open. You’ll
use it in the next few steps.
3 Paint a stroke by dragging on the model.
4 Select another color from the Color Chooser and paint over your first
stroke.
The new color paints over the first color by default. Note that you can
blend the colors by choosing a different Blend Mode setting, under the
Paint Operations heading. You won’t blend the colors in this lesson.
5 Move the brush onto Dino, hold down the b key and drag to the left to
make the brush smaller. Drag until the number at the brush icon changes
to about 0.5. You don’t need to be precise.
Use this hotkey when you need to change the brush width. To make the
brush wider, drag to the right. You can also change the width by changing
the Radius (U) setting.
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