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Overview of the Maya interface

Overview of the Maya interface - Maya Tutorial

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Overview of the Maya interface

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- Let's get started by taking a quick look at the Maya Interface. Now, when you first open Maya it looks a little bit complicated. There are a lot of buttons and Maya has a lot of functionality but let's go ahead and just break it down by parts, so you can understand where everything is at. Now, like most programs, Maya has a menu along the top and we have the standard menu options such as file, open and close the scene, edit, cut, copy, and paste, we have a create menu, allows you to create all sorts of different objects, a select menu, modify, display. We also have a windows menu which allows you to open all sorts of different windows that allow you to edit your scene. Now, once you get to the right of the windows menu, you'll see we have a couple of menus here that say, mesh, edit, mesh, and so on. Now these are modeling tools. Now Maya has so much functionality that it can't fit everything it needs a long one top…

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