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Project 01
LEARNING AUTODESK MAYA 2009 | FOUNDATION
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Setting display options
The view panels let you interactively view your scene. By default, this means viewing your
scene as a wireframe model. To better evaluate the form of your objects, you can activate
hardware shading.
Turn on hardware shading
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To help visualize your objects, you can use hardware shading to display a shaded view
within any panel.
From the Perspective view’s • Shading menu, select Smooth Shade All.
This setting affects all of the objects within the current view panel.
Smooth shaded view
Tip: You can also turn on Smooth Shading by moving your cursor over the desired
panel, clicking with your middle mouse button and pressing the 5 key. The 4 key
can be used to return the panel to a wireframe view.
Hide the grid2
You can hide the world grid to simplify your view using one of two options:
From the view panel’s • Show menu, select Grid to hide the grid for that view only.
OR
From the • Display menu, deselect Grid to hide the grid for all views.
Moving inside the environment
In order to have the feeling of being inside the environment in the Perspective view, you need
to move the Perspective camera inside the sky dome geometry. You will soon realize that even
if you can see inside the sky dome, sometimes its geometry will appear in front of the camera
while moving, thus hiding the interior. The following steps will prevent this from happening.