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Davido Hyer
3D Animator/Effects artist
Brigham Young University
USA
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performing math operations within maya
Is there any sort of built in mathematical function in maya for entering values? for example, say you want a sphere that has a radius of 1/27. is there a way to type this into maya rather than having to consult a calculator every time I have a fraction I need to enter? Thanks.
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Scott Englert
Character TD
Sony Pictures Imageworks
Los Angeles,
USA
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in a way yes and no..
there is a little trick I didn't know until someone told me a little while ago. I haven't fully tested where this will work, but I do know it works in the channel box and in the graph editor, so I am assuming it will work in most places that have a text field box. Using your example, if you had a sphere and you wanted to reduce it to 1/27th is radius than in the radius (or scale depending on where you want to put it) you would enter this in replacing the number currently there: *=0.037037 this will take whatever the current value and multiply it by 0.037037 which is the same as multiplying it by 1/27 or you could say divide it by 27... Maya for some reason does not like /=27 nor does it like *=(1/27) you can do this with +=NUMBER and -=NUMBER, I haven't tried any other math expressions, but it greatly helps out with quick reductions or multipies. so yo umay have to do some initial math.. but I hope that helps! -Scott its very simple and if you wanted |
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