kingmango
11-15-2005, 03:47 AM
Jumping from Maya to Max and it's like starting all over again.
Many of the things I did in Maya seem to be difficult to find in the Max tutes.
Navigation/Viewports
Do I really have to click the buttons in the lower right corner every time I want to move?
In Maya you could hold down 'alt' and use mouse movements to naviagate a scene.
I'm resigned to having to right click a viewport to activate it, but how do I maximize/minimize viewports? In Maya whatever viewport the mouse pointer was over was the active view port and you could press shift bar to maximize/minimize viewports.
Is there some sort of a Maya to Max help guide somewhere?
Objects
How do I move the pivot point of an object?
I had a scene with three objects which I grouped and the pivot point seemed to reassign itself to the center of the geometry. I want it back at the base but how?
Grid Units
How can I make the grid units equal to UED?
At least Max is Z up by default lol.
The tutorials that came with Max aren't really very informative for some reason. At least, I dont' seem to be getting as much from them as I feel I should. It's like they've just been glossed over. And a lot of the time they refer to things w/o linking to other documents to help you if you're clueless when they say click 'such and such' in the rollout. You have to stop for a minute and figure out what a rollout is. It doesn't 'roll' out so it's hard to know w/o a link. Stuff like that.
Anywho, from your experience where can a complete newbie go for a course that is more about learning the interface and workflow as opposed to modelling a head or a car rim?
Many of the things I did in Maya seem to be difficult to find in the Max tutes.
Navigation/Viewports
Do I really have to click the buttons in the lower right corner every time I want to move?
In Maya you could hold down 'alt' and use mouse movements to naviagate a scene.
I'm resigned to having to right click a viewport to activate it, but how do I maximize/minimize viewports? In Maya whatever viewport the mouse pointer was over was the active view port and you could press shift bar to maximize/minimize viewports.
Is there some sort of a Maya to Max help guide somewhere?
Objects
How do I move the pivot point of an object?
I had a scene with three objects which I grouped and the pivot point seemed to reassign itself to the center of the geometry. I want it back at the base but how?
Grid Units
How can I make the grid units equal to UED?
At least Max is Z up by default lol.
The tutorials that came with Max aren't really very informative for some reason. At least, I dont' seem to be getting as much from them as I feel I should. It's like they've just been glossed over. And a lot of the time they refer to things w/o linking to other documents to help you if you're clueless when they say click 'such and such' in the rollout. You have to stop for a minute and figure out what a rollout is. It doesn't 'roll' out so it's hard to know w/o a link. Stuff like that.
Anywho, from your experience where can a complete newbie go for a course that is more about learning the interface and workflow as opposed to modelling a head or a car rim?