From the course: Maya 2016 New Features

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Integrating the Modeling Toolkit

Integrating the Modeling Toolkit - Maya Tutorial

From the course: Maya 2016 New Features

Integrating the Modeling Toolkit

- Over the years Maya's polygon editing tools have been improved vastly with successive versions of the application. In Maya 2014, a new tool set was introduced called the Modeling Tool Kit, and it added a lot of new interesting functions for polygon modeling. However, it lived in its own little world in the modeling tool kit panel, and wasn't well integrated into Maya. Well with Maya 2016, that integration has been completed, and now, the best tools from both the Maya Classic Polygon Modeling Set, and the best tools from the Modeling Tool Kit have been combined into a unified interface. And whether you choose to use the menus or the modeling tool kit panel is purely a matter of personal preference. If we go into the menu's Mesh Tools, you'll see Show Modeling Toolkit, that's one way to get at that panel. The other way is through the buttons up here in the upper right. You've got the Modeling Tool Kit, you can show it or hide it. Significantly, there's no longer a power button in the…

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