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After opening
MAYA....
- Set your preference to "inifinite
undo".
- Set the "set key" option so that the tool
will give you a prompt box and will set keys below.
- Check that your animation units are set to
30 fps.
Shortcuts
General:
- "q" cancels a command
- "w" is a move
- "e" is rotate
- "r" is scale
- "h" is hide selection
- "d" is duplicate
- "f" frames the selection in the active
window
- "x" is grid snap
**you can view all your hotkeys (and manipulate
it) by going to Window > Settings/Preferences >
Hotkeys...
Setting Keys:
- "s" sets key
- "SHIFT+w" sets move
- "SHIFT+e" sets rotate
- "SHIFT+r" sets scale.
Graph Editor:
- "ALT+SHIFT+left click+middle click" lets you
move the view in the direction you move the mouse.
- "SHIFT+middle click" moves keys and curves
in one direction. The direction is the first direction your mouse
moved in.
- "w" and "r" can be used for translate and
scale in the graph editor and dope sheet.
- To weight tangents, you have to first
specify that tangents be weighted (tangents->weighted
Tangents) and then you have to free the tangent weights.
- You can set the way your keys are set
through Options>General Preferences>Animation>Keys. You
can change how the default tangent comes in and how the default tangent
goes out.
Channels Box
- Greyed out means the attribute is
locked.
- Yellow means there's a key on it.
- If you highlight the attribute itself (not
its value) and it's an attribute you assigned, you can use the middle
mouse button to change its value.
Outliner
- To select multiple items, hold down the
"CTRL" key.
- You can drag things by holding down the
middle mouse button. You can also use this to move things under
groups, to parent and un-parent items.
- If you click the "+" symbol, you'll see
what's immediately childed under the object. If you hold the
"SHIFT" key while clicking the "+" symbol, you'll see the entire tree of
parents and children.
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