Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 2
This course will look in the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. It's aimed at people that have some modeling experience in Maya but are having trouble with
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Little annoyance
I been having a little issue with maya lately.
It seem that I cannot change the selection mask mode to "object" the default is "All Objects".
When I try switching this to "initial default" it goes back to "All Objects"
Its annoying when I am selecting an objects verticies in component mode. Its selecting everything.
How can I reset the "initial default" to be "Object" again?
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In this example,
When I go in component mode and select the cube's vertex, I also select the sphere behind it.
In "object mode " I used to select the vertex without interfering with any other object in the scene.
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when i select an object, then right click and select vertex. Maya does'nt automatically puts me in component mode. therefore when I select the vertices of the object I also select the stuff around it.
My other computer system goes into component mode automatically.
Is there a setting I need to turn on for that?
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If I switch to anything other than polygons or animation, then I can't switch back to objects. I have to switch to polygons or animation, and then switch back to default. Weird for sure. Hopefully yours can be fixed in the same way. That would TOTALLY be annoying always selecting other objects like that.
If it doesn't work, you could always switch to polgons until you find a fix.
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If you havn't remapped, then you could always use F8 for object mode, F9 to switch to verts, F10 for edges and F11 for faces. Those will switch you to component mode.
The other good thing about using F9, F10 and F11 is that it's easy to convert a selection. For example..
I have a cylinder with no end cap so I can't secect the top edge loop without having to click on EVERY edge. But I can press F11 and select the top face, then press ctrl and F10 to switch from the face to all the edges surrounding the face. It's really quick. It works with ctrl-F9 and ctrl_F11 too.
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