Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:11:18 -0600 (CST) From: Mark Jacobson To: 810-088-11-spring@uni.edu Subject: [810-088-11-SPRING] Maya 2009 Unlimited 30 day trial Hi Maya students, On Friday we will have a hands-on class in StudioIT 1 (ITT 134) which is a lab full of tablet PCs, i.e. laptop computers with tablet feature. I tested on Maya tonight on my office machine in WRT 338 Statistical Consulting Center (SCC) lab which is an older Dell PC. I was pleased to find out that: Maya Unlimited 2009 version runs fine on 1/2 GB of RAM, i.e. of memory. It does run a bit slow when I try to do some special effects with special twists, but everything else we do in class seems to test out fine. So even though Autodesk Maya state that the minimum requirement are 2 GB (gigabytes) of memory, you can get by fine on 0.5 GB of memory. See you Friday in StudioIT 1 which is 2nd floor ITT 134 multimedia classroom. http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/m/jan.html and review today's Sun, Earth, Moon animation class and preview Friday's class where we might get to the Temple Lessons 2, 3 and 4. I will create a review page for what we did today that was not on the web page later tonight or else on Thursday morning. That will review and cover the following: Grouping objects with Edit menu > Group Snap to Grid so an object or a pivot point just is always at a Grid line after you move it. (0, 0, 0) (1, 0, 0) Between 0 and 6 there would only be 7 locations (2, 0, 0) where you could MOVE any object starting (3, 0, 0) from the origin (0,0,0) and dragging in (4, 0, 0) the positive direction but not past 6 on grid. (5, 0, 0) (6, 0, 0) would be the ONLY POSSIBLE locations where you could move an object, say the Polygonal Sphere you named Earth, if you had Snap to Grid on and were dragging by the RED X manipulator handle. Snap to Grid is what we did to ensure the Earth was exactly at (8,0,0) for its TranslateX 8 TranslateY 0 and TranslateZ 0 The you would use Snap To Grid to ensure that the pivot point for the MoonOrbit group got moved to exactly the center of the Earth sphere. Journey that Pivot Point to the center of the earth. ------- -------------------------- Sounds like a movie possibility! Oh ya, speaking of journey to the center of the earth, dig just a little deeper into your academic studies once every week or so this spring and have an even better semester than you would have otherwise. Can you dig it? ---------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.3dbuzz.com/xcart/product.php?productid=32#samples has a 3:48 (3 minute 48 second long) video on The Pivot Point --------------- which would be great to watch sometime to help you eventually understand the Sun, Earth, Moon animation. ---------------------------------------------------------------- UNI beat Bradley tonight, so I picked a good basketball game to get a ticket for at the last minute! UNI was alone in 1st place in the Missouri Valley and would have been tied for 1st place with Bradley had Bradley won tonight. Winning the game, we are still alone in first place. Can you animate "March Madness" as it might be a possibility soon? Take 3 minutes and 48 seconds before Friday and watch the video tutorial on "The Pivot Point" in honor of UNI basketball! --------------- Mark