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

AstroZombie · Mar 2006

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 · Mar 2006

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 · Mar 2006

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 · Mar 2006

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

MoP · Mar 2006

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

AstroZombie · Mar 2006

what's a search engine?

MoP · Mar 2006

google it

motives · Mar 2006

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 · Mar 2006

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 · Mar 2006

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?

?

thomasp · Mar 2006

press F1 to access the help system

lots of customize options can be found in the window->settings/preferences branch.

AstroZombie · Mar 2006

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 · Mar 2006

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 · Mar 2006

Sticky this biatch, kubby!

Thx snowfly. Do you know alotta melscript?

-R

Snowfly · Mar 2006

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 · Mar 2006

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 · Mar 2006

Thanks a bunch, Snowfly.

Zergxes · Mar 2006

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 · Apr 2006

check out the vids

http://draster.com/ttrain_max_maya

http://draster.com/switcher_max

good luck,
Arash

SouL · Apr 2006

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

roflololololololcopter.

Tulkamir · Apr 2006

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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...

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Zergxes · May 2006

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.

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