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Configuring viewports

Configuring viewports - Maya Tutorial

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Configuring viewports

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- [Instructor] When we navigate in Maya, we're navigating in what's called a view port and that's this big window here. Now view ports are really where most of the work happens in Mayas. Where we can see our 3D scene and manipulate it. Now view ports can be changed to your liking. So this view port here has a menu as well as a number of iconic buttons along the top. Now this happens for every single view port. If I press this four view button here, you'll see that every single view port has this menu. So, I'm going to go ahead back into my main view here by just selecting this button. And let's take a look at what some of these menus and buttons do. Probably the most important one is the shading menu. And this allows us to choose between wire frame. Smooth shaded. Flat shaded. As well as turn on or off texturing. Now the easier way to do this is to just use keyboard shortcuts. So, the number four, gives us wire frame. Five, gives us shaded. And six gives us shaded with textures. Now…

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