Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:27:56 -0600 (CST)
   From: Mark Jacobson <jacobson@cns.uni.edu>
     To: 810-088-11-spring@uni.edu
Subject: Quiz outline and study guide for Wednesday...

Hi Maya students,

     If you missed class today, I will have the handouts taped to my office
door (ITT 307), but it is not at all critical that you get them before
Wednesday.

     The Sun, Earth and Moon animation assignment is not due until next
week.  You have until 10 p.m. on Monday evening, February 9th to finish
it up.  You will just email the scene file to me as an attachment so I can
open it up in Maya and see what you created and how it animates the planet
and moon rotations and orbits.

      The email would be sent to:     jacobson@cs.uni.edu

                                           or

                                      jacobson@cns.uni.edu

      Do NOT SEND IT TO BOTH!!!

      Either CS for Computer Science               jacobson@cs.uni.edu

          or CNS for College of Natural Sciences   jacobson@cns.uni.edu

      goes to the same place.

   Again, this is not due until 10 PM next Monday evening, meaning that
        I see the class again 3 more times BEFORE the assignment is due.

   Review this page to get you warmed up for the Sun, Earth, Moon
   animation assignment:

              http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/m/wk2/sunEarthMoon.html

   Questions about the assignment will be appreciated during any of the
   next 3 classes.                                           ---

   I will get a review page for today's class up on the web page later
      today sometime.  If you have any questions about the assignment that
      was handed out, let me know.

   Quiz on Wednesday:

   See       http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/m/jan.html   and

   link to:  http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/m/wk3/PracticeQuizWk3.html

             for 3 practice questions that you saw last week on a handout
                 for an in-class group exercise.

   The following page will also be part of the quiz #1 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.
   W          E     R
   -          -     -
   M     rotatE     Resize = Scale up or down, scale larger or smaller
   -          -     -

   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 is enough of a study guide for quiz one in Maya:

      1.  http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/m/wk3/PracticeQuizWk3.html

      2.  http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/m/classDay1.html

      3.  http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/m/class2.html

   The quiz will take only 15 or 20 minutes of class on Wednesday.
It is NOT an exam, just a quiz.

   Mark