Maya 8 for Windows and Macintosh

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Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Maya Basics

About Maya

Mayas Interface

Beginning a Project

Importing, Exporting, and Referencing

Maya Help

Chapter 2: Navigating and Changing the Interface

Dollying, Tracking, and Tumbling

Using the View Menu

Changing the Layout

Changing the Interface

About Display Options and Smoothness

Keyboard Shortcuts

Chapter 3: Creating Primitives and Text

About Primitive Types

Creating Primitives

About Text

Naming Objects

About Construction History

Chapter 4: Transforming Objects and Components

Moving, Rotating, and Scaling Objects

About Pivot Points

Duplication Options

Mirroring and Instancing Objects

Soft-Modifying Objects

Chapter 5: Selection Modes, Hiding, and Templating

Selecting Objects

Selection Modes and Masks

Using Quick Select Sets

Hiding and Templating

About Layers

Chapter 6: Grouping, Parenting, and Aligning

Grouping

Parenting

Grouping vs. Parenting

Aligning and Snapping Objects

The Snap Align Tools

Chapter 7: NURBS Curves and Surfaces

About NURBS Objects

About NURBS Curves

Creating NURBS Curves

Editing NURBS Curves

Opening, Closing, and Attaching Curves

Altering Whole Curves

Interactions Between Curves

Creating Surfaces from Curves

Surface Curves and Trims

Modifying and Matching NURBS Surfaces

Chapter 8: Polygons

Modeling Polygons

Creating and Deleting Polygon Components

Splitting and Merging Polygon Components

Subdividing and Merging

Refining Polygons

Surface Normals and Display

Chapter 9: Subdiv Surfaces

Subdiv Surface Components

Refining Subdiv Surfaces

Creasing Subdiv Surfaces

Mirroring and Subdivs

Subdiv Hierarchies

Sculpting Subdivs

Chapter 10: Skeletons and Rigging

About Joints

Adjusting Hierarchies

About IK Handles and Solvers

About Spline IK

About Constraints

The Connection Editor

Basic Rigging

About Full Body IK

Chapter 11: Parenting and Binding to a Skeleton

Parenting to a Skeleton

Using Rigid Bind

Using Smooth Bind

Chapter 12: Animation

Animation Controls

About Setting Keyframes

Setting Animation Preferences

Importing Sound Files

About the Graph Editor

About the Dope Sheet

Muting Animation Channels

Ghosting and Motion Trail

Path Animation

About the Trax Editor

Previewing Your Animation

Chapter 13: Deformers

Nonlinear Deformers

Blend Shapes

Lattices

Clusters

Sculpt Deformers

Jiggle Deformers

Wire Deformers

Wrinkle Deformers

Wrap Deformers

About Deformer Weights

About the Deformation Order

Hiding, Showing, and Deleting Deformers

Chapter 14: Shaders, Materials, and Mapping

About the Hypershade

About IPR Renders

About Materials

About Texture-Mapping NURBS Surfaces

Combining Materials

About Projection Maps

About Texturing Polygons

Editing UVs

Swimming Textures

Texturing Using Painting Tools

Chapter 15: Creating Lights

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