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Maya 8 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual Quickstart Guide
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Maya 8 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual Quickstart Guide

by Morgan Robinson, Nathaniel Stein
March 2007
Beginner content levelBeginner
544 pages
18h 55m
English
Peachpit Press
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2. Navigating and Changing the Interface

Maya’s interface is highly customizable, so you can alter it to suit your current project and workflow. For example, if you’re modeling, you may want to hide the animation controls and use a standard four-view layout (Figure 2.1). If you’re animating, you can hide everything but the animation controls and use a single Perspective view (Figure 2.2). However, even when the menus are hidden, you can access them via the Hotbox by holding down the Image.

Figure 2.1. You can customize almost every aspect of Maya’s interface.

Figure 2.2. By using keyboard shortcuts and the Hotbox, you can work effectively in Maya with ...

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