Date: Wednesday, 10th of September 2008 1:40 PM (Central Daylight Time)
   From: Mark Francis Joseph Jacobson <jacobson@cns.uni.edu>
     To: 810-088-11-fall@uni.edu
Subject: Set Driven Key (SDK) animation in Maya... review/preview...

Hi Maya students,

     Set Driven Key (SDK) animation in Maya...

     The review page for that is linked to from our class page:

           http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/maya/info.html

     Class #7 review, in case you want to go there directly:

           http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/maya/sdk/SDK.html

     We will have our 2nd quiz next Wednesday and catch up sometime
by having a quiz on a Monday (or a take home quiz), but not this Monday.
Only one quiz next week, on WEDNESDAY.  Quiz Two.

     Please go through the textbook H A N D S tutorial from
chapter four and see if you can do it all now.  I will demonstrate
one or possibly two more things related to the HAND modeling on
Friday, and then we will continue with SDK animation and have a dog
run through a swinging pet door.

      The DOG will be the Driver object        One of the Translate
                                                  attributes will be
                                                  the driver attribute.

  and the PetDoor will be the Driven object.   One of the Rotate
                                                  attributes will be the
                                                  driven attribute.

       DOG                  translateX or Y or Z

       PET DOOR             rotateX or rotateY or rotateZ

   It will look as if the cute puppy dog is pushing the door open to
        get outside, perhaps to chase a squirrel out of the yard, or
        at least up a tree in the yard.

   See you on Friday in StudioIT 1 lab again.

   Mark