The following page will tbe part of the quiz #1 and quiz #2 study guide. http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/m/classDay1.html View tools: Tumble, Track, Dolly The WER hotkey shortcuts of QWERTY tools. Manipulators. Move, Rotate and Scale. Q WER TY tools... W E R - - - M rotatE Resize = Scale up or down, scale larger or smaller - - - PIVOT POINTS - Insert Key on PC or Home Key on Mac. TRANFORMATIONs occur around the PIVOT POINT. RGB and XYZ for exciting Maya 3D. Red Green Blue R G B x y z width height depth X Y Z Red Green Blue Pivot Points for transformations W E R tools, RGB and XYZ, Pivot Points, Tumble, Track, Dolly, etc. All of these are on the classDay1.html review page --- -------------- http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/m/classDay1.html Know the following elements of the Maya User Interface, which is discussed on the class2.html review page at: http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/m/class2.html 1. Menu Sets APSDR 3. Status bar should be called Status Line 5. QWERTY Tools 6. Channel Box 7. Quick Layout Buttons 9. Time Slider 10. Playback controls 11. Range Slider 13. Command Line (area to the right where you see feedback after you do Animate menu, Set key - for example. Result // 1 or Result // 10 or Error or Warning Just know the Command Line is a good place to watch and check AFTER you tried to do something or create something in Maya). 14. Help Line Know WHERE these 10 User Interface elements are for a matching or a fill in the blank question. Know the Names and the locations and you will be fine for quiz number one. http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/m/class2.html The following two web pages are enough of a study guide for quiz one in Maya: 1. http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/m/classDay1.html 2. http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/m/class2.html These two pages will be the study guide for quiz two also! Quiz two will probably include additional material but its good to realize you are studying these concepts for at least two different quizzes. The quiz will take only 10 or 12 minutes of class on Wednesday. It is NOT an exam, just a quiz. We have 10 quizzes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ VIP: From the Fall 2009 Maya syllabus... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ten quizzes will count for 30 %. There will be a 10 to 15 minute quiz every Wednesday, starting during week #4. On Wednesday September 16th we will have quiz one at the end of the 10th class. There will be no quiz during week #15, which is the last week of class. Most or all of these 10 Wednesday quizzes will be at the end of class. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ See the class web page often. http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/m/ Mark