New to Maya

[stunndman]

if you are refering to history then try edit->delete history

[X-Tender]

Try

Edit | Delete All by Type | History

i hope i understand you right :shrug:

/e: DOH! To slow! :D

[steverage]

Spot on m8 cheers

[Maya Ayanami]

if you want to change the hotkeys you can go to windows->preferences->hotkeys.
and just delete the history if that is what you want to do.
the guys up there have already said how.

[bugo]

dont know about nothing on XSI, but I heard that Maya have the best visualization mode and have the best hotkeys on default, try to understand some new things!!! :thumbsup:

[Sgt.ArchAngel]

i know the fealing i jsut started using maya a couple days ago going throught he tutrials on it
and keep trying to use 3dsmax shortcut keys

its especialy hard sinse i dont have a 3 button mouse =/

[bugo]

yeah, to use Maya u really need a 3 button mouse!!!

[Sgt.ArchAngel]

yeah ive been realizing that more and more as i try to move the camera around and only able to rotate and zoom

think ill have to go buy one this weekend

had a 2 button with a middle wheel that doubled as abutton and wheel but my neice total it for me lol

[Maya Ayanami]

yep that must suck if you only have 2 buttons.
but Bugo what do you mean by maya has the best visualization mode thing.

[Ender0910]

yeah, when i first switched over from max to maya stuff was exploding all over coz i was pressing the wrong keys :P

it took me a while to realize how powerful they made the MMB :surprised

but now that I'm used to Maya I don't think I can go back! I love the way Maya is set up :D

[Maya Ayanami]

ha, maybe that is why everyone likes maya so much. everything is set up really nice. but I can sure see a problem when users of other software would get confused. a lot of things have weird names, like the dope sheet, the hypershade, the hypergraph and much much more(or do all of the high end programs do that).
I think that moving around your scene is the easiest of all of the other 3d pakages. I have used both 3ds max and lightwave and both require you to go all of the way to a small little button on the side or top or top side of the screen to use the camera transform tools. in bigger projects I can see how that can really slow you down.

too bad you cant change it from alt to something else in maya.
I have standard 3 button mouse with the wheel and an aditional 4th button for the thumb and the mouse software wont let me use alt for it. that would have been sweet if it did
and even the hotbox. how cool is that. and MEL you could possibly rewrite the entire program using its very own language(well partly).

and is it just me or has a lot of people been going over to maya since march 1st.

the only thing that I dont like about maya is that I cant use that brazil render that everyone has been talking about.

and arn't those weird names for windows strange. it can get confusing to even people who have been using maya for a while.

i dont mean to put down the other software. i just think that maya is the best. i havent used max much and am not used to lightwave yet. I have seen equally as good material that comes from max lightwave and xsi than stuff that comes out of maya.

Happy clicking:applause:

[M_Orlich]

by freeze, it sounds like you can get it back at some point. is that something you can do with XSI?

as far as i know, once you delete history in maya it's gone forever.

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[Carina]

Maya Ayanami, about Maya having weird names, I couldn't agree more.

I have been using Maya for more than two years now and I still discover really basic things which I haven't used before simply because of the fact that I get no hints from the name as to what the command will do.

This might be of help if you switch from softimage to maya:
http://www.aliaswavefront.com/en/products/maya/pdf/SoftImagetoMaya.pdf

And this if you switch from max to maya:
http://www.aliaswavefront.com/en/products/maya/pdf/3dMaxtoMaya.pdf

:wavey:

[Maya Ayanami]

sooo.

are u likeing maya better then xsi or do you want to go back.

[Lunatique]

Originally posted by Maya Ayanami
sooo.

are u likeing maya better then xsi or do you want to go back.

Haha, that's what I was wondering too. Never heard of a someone going from XSI to Maya--only the other way around.

[Rudity]

Originally posted by Lunatique
Haha, that's what I was wondering too. Never heard of a someone going from XSI to Maya--only the other way around.

Ive done it.

I liked maya better.
I liked the marking menu's and hotkeys.
And of course the shelves. Couldn't live without the shelves.
Cleaner interface IMO too.

Some things I miss about xsi.
Poly Modeling. God that is intuitive in XSI.
Moving XYZ with the mouse buttons.
Ghosting curve in graph editor.
Usable dopesheet.
Quaternion based. Like the orient constraints. :thumbsup:

Id work in either package. Id purchase Maya for myself.

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