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Table Of Contents

Contents
Overview
- Introduction
- About the Getting Started lessons
- Before you begin
- Installing Maya
- Conventions used in the lessons
- Using the lesson files
- Using the Maya Help
- Additional learning resources
- Restoring default user settings
Maya Basics
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lessons
- Lesson 1: The Maya user interface
- Lesson 2: Creating, manipulating, and viewing objects
- Lesson 3: Viewing the Maya 3D scene
- Lesson 4: Components and attributes
Polygonal Modeling
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lesson
- Lesson 1: Modeling a polygonal mesh
- Lesson 2: Sculpting a polygon mesh
NURBS Modeling
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lessons
- Lesson 1: Revolving a curve to create a surface
- Lesson 2: Sculpting a NURBS surface
- Lesson 3: Lofting curves to create a surface
Subdivision Surfaces
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lesson
- Lesson 1: Modeling a subdivision surface
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
- Lesson 5: Inverse kinematics
Character Setup
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lessons
- Lesson 1: Skeletons and kinematics
- Lesson 2: Smooth skinning
- Lesson 3: Cluster and blend shape deformers
Polygon Texturing
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lesson
- Lesson 1: UV texture mapping
- Lesson 2: UV unfolding
- Lesson 3: Normal mapping
Rendering
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lessons
- Lesson 1: Rendering a scene
- Lesson 2: Shading surfaces
- Lesson 3: Lights, shadows, and cameras
- Lesson 4: Global Illumination
- Lesson 5: Caustics
Dynamics
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lessons
- Lesson 1: Particles, emitters, and fields
- Lesson 2: Rigid bodies and constraints
Painting
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lessons
- Lesson 1: Painting in 2D using Paint Effects
- Lesson 2: Painting in 3D using Paint Effects
- Lesson 3: Painting textures on surfaces
Expressions
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lessons
- Lesson 1: Creating a simple expression
- Lesson 2: Conditional expressions
- Lesson 3: Controlling particle attributes
Scripting in Maya
- Introduction
- Some basic concepts
- Preparing for the lessons
- Lesson 1: Commands in MEL
- Lesson 2: Saving scripts to the Shelf
- Lesson 3: Using Variables in MEL
- Lesson 4: User interface creation and procedures
- Lesson 5: Using Python in Maya
Assets
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lessons
- Lesson 1: Setting up an asset
- Lesson 2: Using assets in a scene
Hair
- Introduction
- About hair simulation
- Preparing for the lessons
- Lesson 1: Creating a basic hairstyle
- Lesson 2: Creating a dynamic non-hair simulation
Fluid Effects
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lessons
- Lesson 1: Creating a dynamic 2D fluid effect
- Lesson 2: Creating a non-dynamic 3D fluid effect
- Lesson 3: Creating a dynamic 3D effect
- Lesson 4: Creating an ocean effect
Fur
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lessons
- Lesson 1: Assigning a fur description
- Lesson 2: Rendering fur
nCloth
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lessons
- Lesson 1: Creating nCloth collisions
- Lesson 2: Creating nCloth constraints
- Lesson 3: Creating nCloth Clothing
nParticles
- Introduction
- Preparing for the tutorials
- Lesson 1: Creating nParticles
- Lesson 2: Creating a smoke simulation with nParticles
- Lesson 3: Creating a liquid simulation with nParticles
Live
- Introduction
- About Live
- Preparing for the lessons
- Lesson setup
- Lesson 1: Track and solve
- Lesson 2: Solving with survey data
Index

illustration. (The second track area will be mostly green or all green in

the Track Summary.)

If the tracker fails to create a graph similar to the above illustration, three

actions might have occurred:

■ The tracker stays stuck at the same frame and the animation frame doesn’t

advance

■ The tracker stops before the final frame

■ The tracker drifts off target

Whichever of these actions occurred, repeat the previous step, but this

time shorten the track box’s inner target box.

Importing tracking data

To reduce the repetition of tracking many more points in this lesson, you

import additional track points for the scene from a file we created for your

use in this lesson.

To import track data

1 Choose Track > Import Track Points from the Live menu set.

2 Navigate to the MayaLiveLessonData/points directory and open

fence_1.txt.

This imports the track point data for seven more points. (The track data

was created using the Track > Export Track Points operation.) Ordinarily,

you will not need to use the export and import operations; they are

intended for situations where you start over with a new scene but want

to retain track information.

Preparing to solve

Are there enough track points for you to solve the camera movement? Follow

these instructions to see how you make this decision.

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