Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 1
This course will look at the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. We'll look at what makes a good model in Maya and why objects are modeled in the way they are.
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Then hit play. After you hit play, it will walk automatically. You can change the gait by hitting buttons that control it.
If you just want to see what it does before you skin the character, just hit the control to create the skeleton and then hit the play button.
Most of the controls on the window that appears are quite intuitive. If you are doing a biped, there is a button that you need to hit that will allow you to open the hand all at once or control the individual fingers in the hand.
You may need to expirement a little to get the results that you want, but the big advantage with this program is that if the skinning does not work quite right, all you have to do is hit the rewind button, and the character will be re-posed, unskin the character, change what needs to be changed and then re-skin it again . . . . you can't do that so easily with the standard animation methods.
As far as the tutorial goes, it is something that I work on based on the questions I am asked, so it gradually grows bigger, and it is all in the installation file. I will be adding this question and answer to the file. I also added your earlier questions to it, and they will be released with the final version that I will be releasing once the owners of this website update the download section.
To see it "walk", you need to set the forward speed to something other than zero!
Let me know if you have further questions . . .
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on the gait changes for the final version of this program, that will make it easier for everyone. The reason I set it initially to zero speed is because it makes it easy to see the different gaits rapidly, but in this case I think it would be easier for users to get things going faster if the speed for each gait was already set, then if they want to modify that, they can still do it, so instead of having the speed at zero for each gait, it will be set already when the skeleton appears . . . .
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As far as the tutorial goes, I have included the latest version with this zip file, but you will not see much new in it, as I have so far been working on it based on question that people ask regarding how to do particular things.