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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
- Lesson 2: Sculpting a polygon mesh
- 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
- Assets
- Hair
- Fluid Effects
- Fur
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lessons
- Lesson 1: Assigning a fur description
- Introduction
- Lesson setup
- Duplicating objects across an axis of symmetry
- Renaming surfaces on a model
- Assigning objects to a reference layer
- Assigning a fur description preset to a model
- Reversing surface normals
- Modifying the fur direction
- Painting fur attributes
- Modifying the color of a fur description
- Creating a new fur description
- Beyond the lesson
- 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
- Introduction
- Lesson setup
- Making the dress into an nCloth object
- Making the character wear the dress
- Caching nCloth to speed up playback
- Adjusting the fit of the dress
- Defining the behavior of nCloth clothing
- Painting nCloth properties
- Open the second scene for the lesson
- Setting the initial state
- Constraining nCloth clothing
- Improving the quality of the nCloth simulation
- Smoothing nCloth clothing
- Beyond the lesson
- 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
- Introduction
- Lesson setup
- Creating a Water style nParticle object
- Adjusting Liquid Simulation attributes
- Adding fluidity to the nParticles
- Open the second scene for the lesson
- Convert nParticles to a polygon mesh
- Cache your nParticle simulation
- Adding Motion Streak
- Open the third scene for the lesson
- Render your liquid simulation
- Assigning material shaders
- Rendering a simulated frame
- Beyond the lesson
- Live
- Index
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Creating a new scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Primitive objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
The Toolbox: Layout shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
The Toolbox: Transformation tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
The Channel Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Duplicating objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Save your work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Beyond the lesson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Lesson 3: Viewing the Maya 3D scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Camera tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Workflow overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Viewing objects in shaded mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Grouping objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
The Hypergraph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Selection modes and masks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Pivot points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Save your work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Beyond the lesson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Lesson 4: Components and attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Template display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
The Attribute Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Surface materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Save your work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Beyond the lesson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Chapter 3
Polygonal Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Preparing for the lesson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Lesson 1: Modeling a polygonal mesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Setting modeling preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Using 2D reference images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Creating a polygon primitive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Modeling in shaded mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Model symmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Selecting components by painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Selecting edge loops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Editing components in the orthographic views . . . . . . . . . . 86
Editing components in the perspective view . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Drawing a polygon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Extruding polygon components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Bridging between edges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
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