From the course: Maya 2022 Essential Training
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Manage object history - Maya Tutorial
From the course: Maya 2022 Essential Training
Manage object history
- [Instructor] When you model in Maya you create a history of your modeling operations. Now we've looked at a little bit of this in the attribute editor. But as you start to finalize your model you may want to do what's called delete history. So let's take a look at this simple coffee cup. Now, if I go into my attribute editor you'll see that I've got all sorts of nodes here. I've got my main positional node here, over here I have my shape which is where I can control how the mesh moves. But then I have additional nodes here. I've got some bevels, I've got a split ring which is essentially inserting an edge loop. I've got my poly bridge which connected the coffee cup handle to the body. And so on. I've got all of these different nodes and as you can see I've got a whole bunch of them. And when you select this object Maya has to go through and calculate all these nodes. So this overhead can get a little heavy. Now,…
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