How Customized is your MAYA?

[TheWraith]

mine is pretty plain actually. only the shelf's have been changed with some custom icons and elements of the gui hidden. though i too am interested in seeing a killer maya interface. would be nice to have a "my maya interface looks better than yours" contest or something :) good for getting new ideas for customizing it. i do need to change the splash screen though... with all the cool ones i've seen i still haven't bothered changing mine yet.

[Jozvex]

Hehe well mine's not exactly killer, but:

http://www.jozvex.com/interface.jpg

My custom marking menus didn't show up in the screenshots though... :shrug:

[ntmonkey]

I did a search for changing the splash screen, but I can't find out how big the image has to be. Anyone know the exact dimensions the maya splash screen has to be?

Thanks,

Lu

[wgreenlee1]

http://slaptogether.com/MayaInterface/maya.gif

[blackSTATIK]

wow, now that is customized...very simple, i like!

[NUKE-CG]

99% of the time I'm in full screen perspective. Dark grey background, selection colours, and editors colours changed.

I have 4 marking menus..

Main: Contains edit poly tools, Selection tools, Merge Tools, Creation Tools, Delete Tools, and Misc (center pivot, soft/harden edges).

Dupe: Duplicate, Instance, Instance and Mirror.

UI: Switches panels, layouts, and the UI depending on the task I wish to do.. FullScreen, Modeling, Animation, UV etc..

and Editors: Radial menu to get to Hypershade, Hypergraph, Tool Options, Graph Editor..

"8" is wireframe on shaded toggle, "9" is Isolate Selected toggle.
Shelf has a Project switcher for personal, and client folder, a timeline switcher (switch the timeSlider to 1|1 to 250|500), and a menu called MJ for MJ Polygon Tools.. sorry.. felt like typing a lot..

[Peter Reynolds]

Im definitely a hotbox hotkey addict. Minimal screen clutter and spacebar gets a good work out.

Wacom keycombos, etc also come in handy.

"nothin to see here"

I wish more applications had spatially oriented interfaces. I also like Mirai's contextual approach.

[dmcgrath]

What I use at school is to setup a user defined hotkey to hide and then restore all the UI elements, kind of like what wgreenlee has above (the HUGE pic!) :)

Ctrl+Spacebar = setAllMainWindowComponentsVisible 0

and then instead of using the same code above but with "1" at the end, I use:

Ctrl+Alt+Spacebar = restoreMainWindowComponents

[rebo]

I use Full screen and Xumi 2.1 a very nice combination.

[Aneks]

Gotta admit I have been using Maya since version 1 and I don't really change the interface much. I have seen a lot of folk with some outlanids shelves but they end up talking longer to sort through than the menus. Although I do have a MtoR shelf and a MEL shelf. Maybe because I was teaching it for a while and the students need to see the default interface more ???

The only thing I really have different is a three custom marking menus (which rock hard when using a wacom ) :

Dynamics : which has lots of options and settings for all things dynamic including hardware render buffer and relationship editor

Mover : A quick modelling MM for changing the move tool from world,object, local, normal and now along rotation axis

Displays : which does things like turn on wireframe shading and xray

Also I hide the 'pain' and main menu bars and that damn toolbox and I have some things like the lasso tool assigned to a hot key.

AND my main pet hate is transperant hot boxes..... ugh.

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