You can also break off this window if you find yourself using it a lot.Īctually took me much longer than I thought it would to find this one. Edit Mesh- It’ll use the previous command you used in that menu, until you click on something else. Same as Soft, but Maya also has an additional way to find commands and if you hold space bar to access the quick selection-you will see “Recent Commands” which stores about 10 of the last commands/tools you used. I noticed that if you middle click on a menu, for eg. Top right icons lets you Hide/Un-hide the menu. At least it works with soft selection (Proportional modeling in Softimage) I found that in the “Modeling Toolkit” Side bar. There should be a way to enable/disable that. (and you have to hold a key, baahhhh) Not 100% sure but it looks like its always in sliding/magnetic mode. Hold the ~ tilde key to tweak components. It also doesn’t automatically enter component mode. It doesn’t have multiple options like welding etc. Maya version you should enter Multi component mode to have a similar effect. Man… Sad to lose the way the tweak tool worked in Soft. Go to Object Mode) but now you can right-click + hold and choose Object Mode per object you want to switch or just hit F8 (I just don’t like how far away the F buttons are, so I might end up with custom hot keys again.) I used to use Space bar to drop the selection (ie. Select a poly and double click the poly next to your selection and it’ll select the entire loop Select a poly and double click on another poly further away or in the same loop and it’ll connect your selection (useful for selecting specific loops) I find its faster than using the F9-F12 buttons (which do the same thing)ĭouble click on a poly to select entire polygon shell. Working with Face/Edge/Vert component modes. Right-Click on selection to quickly get to a component mode. Maya help also have this Guide which cover a few of the more obvious things.Īlright! I’ll start this off with some miscellaneous stuff. I’ve always used Maya/Custom hot keys, so I won’t go into comparing hot keys too much. If anybody as advice/other options or the correct way to do things-I’m all ears (or eyes :P) Perhaps I can help other people who have to do the same thing at some point. So it’s happened…I’ve begun the transition in to Maya 2016 from working in Softimage (2011/2013) for about 7 years, I thought I would write down all the annoying or useful things I’ll discover along the way.