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Navigating in Maya

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Navigating in Maya

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- [Instructor] Now let's take a look at how to navigate in Maya. Navigation in Maya requires a three button mouse. Now, if you have a laptop with a touch pad, or maybe a Macintosh with a one or a two button mouse, you're going to have a rough time. So go out and get yourself a three button mouse. Now with that in mind, let's go ahead and take a look at how to use those three buttons. Navigation in Maya is a combination of one keyboard key and one mouse button. If you hold down Alt and left click you can orbit the scene. So, here I am left clicking and dragging and I'm orbiting the scene. Now you'll notice that if I go left and right it orbits left and right. And if I go up and down, it tilts the camera up and down. Now the next control is the middle mouse button. So if I hold down Alt and middle click I can pan the scene. So, left click, orbit, middle click, pan. Now, the right click is camera truck. So basically, it moves the camera towards, or away, so if I were to truck all the way…

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