lol our Technical Director wrote a MEL script that looks and works exactly like Edit Poly in Max. Maya isn't the best modelling program, but the navigation is pretty good. This wasn't a bad tutorial site: http://www.3dlessons.com/categories/3D-Tutorials-Maya-3D-Tutorials/page2.html This can be used to bake out AO and…
Hi, I am a 3dsmax user and would like to pick up the basics of Maya too. Anybody know of any good tutorials / websites or books that teach Maya from a Max users perspective? Thanks.
Also,. Maya has a really lovely feature. The hotbox. I usually work without any UI piece up thanks to it. Mmm lovely workspace. As for tutorials. Hmm. I don´t know really. I learnt the basics by picking up the autodesk maya beginners book. The quality of that one is... so-so to say the least.
http://www.paulneale.com/tutorials/MaxMaya/maxMaya.htm You might also find this quick ref chart from Paul Neale (PEN) pretty helpful when finding what features are called. Its easiest to ask about specific functions you do in Maya that seem to be missing from 3dsmax. You should probably start another thread for that, since…