[Technical Talk] - Making the Max to Maya Switch?

AstroZombie

Ok, I know this has been posted a few times before, and I really did try and use the search feature before I posted but I could not find previous posts on this subject. Anyhow ...

Tomorrow I am being assigned to work on a Maya project. I have minimal past experience with Maya. Any tips or advice from those of you who have had to make the switch in the past would be much appreciated.

MoP

Set up your hotkeys to be as similar to Max commands as possible.
Get MJ Poly Tools script for modelling.

Use this guide as reference (I GOOGLED IT SON)

http://www.alias.com/eng/products-services/maya/file/3dmax_to_maya.pdf

Jeff Parrott

Woah, Mop is laying it down!

Get used to using the shelf. I have every command I need up there. It really speeds me up.

AstroZombie

Sweet! thanks MoP. But what is this "google" thing you speak of?

MoP

google? not sure... i stumbled across it one time when using a search engine.

AstroZombie

what's a search engine?

MoP

google it

motives

you might wanna get the OMToolbox. Way faster than mjpolytools..
http://www.alias.com/glb/eng/community/developers_corner.jsp

You probably also want multischnap IE. target weld
http://www.users.on.net/~neilandbron/multiSchnap.mel

good luck

Marine

that toolbox thing is much faster. lacks some of the functionality in mj that i use a lot though, like selecting four sides of a poly and creating a diamond of edges within it, and splitting an individual edge.

AstroZombie

ok, slight delay on getting started on this project. I am presently trying to set up my hot keys. How do I assign function keys?

Example, I want to match the max settings:

f2 = Shade selected faces (in sub-object mode - not sure that this applies to maya or not)
f3 = toggle wireframe on/off
f4 = toggle edged faces on/off

Also, is there anyway I can change swap the space bar for right click?

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thomasp

press F1 to access the help system
lots of customize options can be found in the window->settings/preferences branch.

AstroZombie

Yea, I've been customizing from there, but I think the terminology is throwing me a wee bit.

[edit]
found it. It is bound to "4" and "5" in Maya by default

Now ...
how do I set my viewports to:
"f" = front
"l" = left
"r" = right
"t" = top
"b" = bottom
"p" = perspective

?

Snowfly

Here you go AstroZombie. Just bind these to hotkeys.

//Front
string $currentPanel = `getPanel -withFocus`;
viewSet -f `modelEditor -q -camera $currentPanel`;

//Left
string $currentPanel = `getPanel -withFocus`;
viewSet -ls `modelEditor -q -camera $currentPanel`;

//Right
string $currentPanel = `getPanel -withFocus`;
viewSet -rs `modelEditor -q -camera $currentPanel`;

//Top
string $currentPanel = `getPanel -withFocus`;
viewSet -t `modelEditor -q -camera $currentPanel`;

//Bottom
string $currentPanel = `getPanel -withFocus`;
viewSet -bo `modelEditor -q -camera $currentPanel`;

//Perspective
string $currentPanel = `getPanel -withFocus`;
viewSet -p `modelEditor -q -camera $currentPanel`;

These are crude by the way. They don't preserve the zoom that you were working at.. and they don't really switch viewports, they just move the camera to a predefined location.

which in practice might make them useless, I don't know... There are more refined scripts out there I'm sure.

PaK

Sticky this biatch, kubby!

Thx snowfly. Do you know alotta melscript?

-R

Snowfly

Pak - Nope actually I don't. Cobbling together new commands from the script editor to speed up my workflow, yeah, but I can't make anything widely useful.

Justin Meisse

Hey, if you open up the script editor (icon in the lower right) then go to script>echo all commands, it helps when you want to figure out what certain commands do.

AstroZombie

Thanks a bunch, Snowfly.

Zergxes

Maybe hit up some of the free tutorials on digitaltutors.com. The DVD's they sell are pretty good, less of a deep coverage of everything and more of a fast functional overview.

Good luck!

dRaster

check out the vids

http://draster.com/ttrain_max_maya

http://draster.com/switcher_max

good luck,
Arash

SouL

Anyone have a spare bat I can use to beat this dead horse with some more? kthxbye.

roflololololololcopter.

Tulkamir

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Anyone have a spare bat I can use to beat this dead horse with some more?

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Well... if you really want you can use mine...

Zergxes

mmm... found this

http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/files/3dmax_to_maya.pdf

Any info on switching the other way? It's high time I figure out Max.

Aliraza149

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