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CHAPTER 1 Working in Autodesk MAyA
The Channel Box
The term channel is, for the most part, interchangeable with attribute. You can think of a channel
as a container that holds the attribute’s value. The Channel Box is an editor that lists a node’s
attributes for quick access. The Channel Box displays the node’s attributes, which are most fre-
quently keyframed for animation.
The Channel Box is located on the right side of the screen when the view mode at the end of
the status bar is set to Show The Channel Box/Layer Editor (see Figure 1.14).
There are two tabs on the very right side of the screen that allow you to quickly switch
between the Channel Box and the Attribute Editor, as shown in Figure 1.15. (The Attribute
Editor is discussed in detail later in this chapter.) These tabs are visible when both the Attribute
Editor icon and the Channel Box icon are activated on the status bar in the upper-right corner of
the interface.
Figure 1.14
The icon in the
upper right of the
interface toggles
the visibility of the
Channel Box/Layer
Editor.
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