Well, if you avoid looking at tutorials you're going to have a rough time learning any software. Surely you didn't instinctively know how to use every feature in Maya the first time you opened it. Luxology's official tutorials are quite good as well: http://community.thefoundry.co.uk/tv/training/ I'll say it again, action…
That seems the main complaint. As mentioned earlier is right it's mentioned in the 5th-ish page of the viewport tutorial when you first open the program!!
Are you watching any tutorials? I think a lot of this would be cleared up with a few videos. Pat Crandly has a bunch of good ones on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/patcran/playlists The Luxology site itself also has a ton of Spotlight videos.
I don't want to burst a bubble here, but surprised this is still an issue. Being that we now have access to CG softwares and tutorials for free. Than again I assume you already know this and just fall under the category of people that feel the incentive to pay for the tool even if they can get it for free. In that case, I…
I guess I'm trying to avoid it because there's no reason I should have to watch an entire video where someone drawls on and on for 5-20 minutes while I try not to fall asleep while locating the 1 sentence answer I want. I think I'm emotionally scarred from watching an 'advanced' digital tutors rigging video in the past…