Equivalents

[jclausingjr]

In digging thru maya, i find it useful to think of some things in terms of Softimage.....it might be helpful to fling them in here as you get them....sort of a shortcut to maya using softimage language. these wont be complete equivalents, but i find that if i make myself a list, it at least points me in the right direction.

to start:

maya/softimage

sets/groups
ramp shader/incidence, gradient, toon
shader map/constant
ipr/render region (i told you some of these were a stretch)


anyone? thoughts?

[AlanEddie]

Someone has developed something similar to the Softimage draw render region, I would expect Maya will adopt it. In the meantime, I have a marking menu to drag left in a perspective - which loads ipr render view in the panel ready to draw the ipr. Then marking menu to pop back to the previous view. As good as it gets for now.

[AlanEddie]

Model structure = Group in Maya

Am I right about that, think I am.

[jclausingjr]

Kudos, a lot of the "equivalents" that i'm writing, as i said, are only my impressions....very few are exactly interchangeable, but i think, "sets" seem to be the closest thing to "groups"

[jclausingjr]

oops, sorry Kudos, you meant "maya groups"...cool, thanks

[jclausingjr]

a bunch more as i go thru:

Maya Quick Keys

F focus on object
Alt lft mouse tumble view
Alt mid mouse track view
Alt rt mouse zoom/dolly
Space bar switch from 1 to 4 views
Click n drag create shape
1,2,3 subdivision (apparent) not real
Rt mouse (over obj) pop up menu (marking menu)
Shift add to selection
Ctrl remove from selection
Space Bar hot box
S set a key frame
q select
w move
r scale
t show manipulators
y last tool used
Ctrl shift when in pull down menu, will put item on shelf

Hypershade:

- Ramp shader can be used as “incidence”, “toon”, or “gradient
- Shading map is basically a “constant” shader
- Placement node “place2dtexture” is an “image” node in Softimage
- Ctrl/click in numerical box is “middle click”
- Middle/click and drag connects nodes
- The texture attached to the “place2dtexture” hollow arrow bottom right can function as a sort of “picker” node
- “Graph Editor” is essentially the “Animation Editor”
- The “Layered Shader” behaves like a “mix node” in the render tree
- “Convert to file texture” behaves like “stamp” in that it gives an unfolded uv layout of a texture
- “UV Texture Editor” is like the “Texture Editor”
- “Connection Editor” can be used like complex “wiring” in the “Render Tree”….you can “drive” attributes with other attributes. i.e. “incidence” node driving “transparency”.
- “Attribute Spreadsheet” behaves almost like “multi-selecting” in soft, but on steroids. You can adjust all the attributes of an asset, independent of the others while seeing the others