Welcome to Maya, the world’s leading software application for 3D digital animation and visual effects. Maya provides a comprehensive suite of tools for your 3D content creation work ranging from modeling, animation, and dynamics through to painting and rendering to name but a few. With Maya, you can create and edit 3D models in a variety of modeling formats and animate your models using Maya’s suite of animation tools. You can create convincing visual simulations of rigid and soft body objects interacting in the physical world using the computational dynamics and particles tools. Maya also provides a range of tools to allow you to render your animated 3D scenes to achieve photo realistic imagery and animated visual effects
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This brief handout gives a short introduction to MAYA. Only the most important and basic commands are listed here. For further information and special knowledge to all the commands you can temporarily lend a MAYA manual at the Lynn studio. For any other questions contact us.
In this intro several abbreviations are used:
LMB – Left mouse button
RMB – Right mouse button
MMB – middle mouse button
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This document is intended to be a guide or a reference for those who, using Maya to create their characters, want to export them into the Quake III Arena engine. It’s based on our experience at the Virtual World of Art (VWA) where we wanted to create our own avatars for our environments, and reflects as well some particularities due to the specific needs of our project, that might not be the same of the average user willing to create boths for the game. We just use Quake III Arena as an engine for a very different context than what the game itself is about, but I think that it can be a useful reference nevertheless for those Quake III Arena enthusiasts that, using already Maya to model, texture and animate their characters, would like to see them fighting in Quake III Arena.
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Viewing the Maya 3D scene Introduction Camera tools Workflow overview Viewing objects in shaded mode Grouping objects The Hypergraph Selection modes and masks Pivot points Save your work Beyond the lesson Lesson 4 Components and attributes Introduction Template display Components The Attribute Editor Surface materials Save your work Beyond the lesson Getting Started with Maya 4 Table of Contents 3 Polygonal Modeling Introduction Preparing for the lesson Lesson 1 Modeling a polygonal mesh Introduction Setting modeling preferences
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Creating a basic hairstyle Introduction Lesson setup Creating hair on a surface Styling the hair Setting up hair collisions Rendering the hair Modifying hair attributes Setting up shadowing on hair Beyond the lesson Getting Started with Maya Unlimited 3 s Lesson 2 Creating a dynamic non-hair simulation Introduction Lesson setup Setting up the curtain scene Making the hair collide with another object Assigning a Paint Effects brush to the hair Setting up constraints Rendering the curtain scene Beyond the lesson 3 Fluid Effects Introduction Preparing for the lessons Lesson 1 Creating a dynamic 2D fluid effect Introduction Creating a two-dimensional fluid container Adding a fluid emitter to a container Changing the behavior of a fluid Combining colors in a fluid Colliding a fluid with an object Beyond the lesson Lesson 2 Creating a non-dynamic 3D fluid effect Introduction Creating a 3D fluid container Adding fluid to a container Defining shader attributes for a fluid.
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Comprehensive Life Platform for Creating Highly Interactive 3D Applications The Virtools 4 Life Platform ushers in a unique solution for pervasively developing and deploying 3D experiences on personal computers, game consoles, Intranets and the web, demonstrating Dassault Systèmes’ commitment to bringing the power of 3D to all user communities. The open-ended architecture of Virtools 4 supports a wide variety of 3D formats. 3D Content Capture plugins support most commonly used DCC software formats (3ds Max®, Maya®, XSI®, Lightwave®, Collada®) for importing/exporting 3D XML files, making real-time 3D technology easily available. Now based on the new Product-Context Scenario (PCS) paradigm, Virtools 4 allows users to imagine, share and experience highly interactive 3D content.
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