#Maya right click showing display menu tv#
If you were working on a cartoon scene for TV that lasted one minute, youwould probably set the overall start and end to because there are 30frames per second and 60 seconds in a minute. Numerical entries at either end of the RangeSlider set (from left to right) the overall animation start frame, the focusrange start frame, the focus range end frame, and the overall animation endframe. Next down is the Range Slider, which allows the animator to focus on aspecific part of the animation. Below thosebuttons is the Time Slider, which serves several functions: first, to show thecurrent time point of the animation, and second, to allow the animation to bescrubbed (that is, click in the Time Slider and drag the mouse left and right tosee the animation move forward and backward). The bottom half of the Tool Box consists of a set of Quick Layout buttons,which adjust the panel layout to several popular configurations. The icon in this box changes tomatch the last tool used. The Last SelectedTool button is just thata quick way to get back to the last tool you used.It's helpful for speeding up your workflow. TheShow Manipulator Tool button lets you adjust the "history" of anoperation, such as when you previously applied a texture to an object and nowneed a manipulator to change where that texture is applied. The ShowManipulator Tool and the Last Selected Tool buttons round out this section. The top half of the Tool Box consists of the select and transform tools,which are used constantly to move, rotate, and scale things (collectively, theposition, rotation, and scale of an object is known as its transform). Moving down the left side, next is the vertical dialog box called the ToolBox. Depending on the project you are working on, you might have several custom "macros" you keep visible in the Shelf to speed up your work.
Below the Status Line is the Shelf, a Maya innovation that lets you easily add customizable quick buttons. The Status Line contains most of the toggles and buttons used for object manipulation and frequently used functions, such as the Quick Render button (the director's clapboard icon).
As you get the bigger picture, the logic of this layout will make more sense.Ĭoming down the left side of Figure 2.1, at the top is the title bar, followed by the menu barfeatures common to all computer applications. If the need or use for some features seems hard to fathom, just file it away for future reference. Some elements of the interface are explained in more detail in the sections that follow. We'll take you on a tour of the interface now and explain what it all means. When you start Maya for the first time, it looks like the window shown in Figure 2.1.
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