From the course: Maya: Bifrost Extension
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Navigating nested compounds - Maya Tutorial
From the course: Maya: Bifrost Extension
Navigating nested compounds
- [Instructor] Picking up from the previous movie, I've got the Standard Explosion Graph open in the Bifrost Graph Editor. I'd like to talk about navigating inside the components to see that the graph is hierarchical in structure. Some of the nodes in this graph have an icon indicating that they are a compound, which is a combination of nodes, and actually some of the compounds have different icons. For example, this source_air compound has got an arrow icon. But a generic compound icon looks like this. It looks like a bunch of nodes connected in the little mini graph. If I double click on one of these compounds, I'll go inside that compound to see its structure. And we can navigate here in the usual way, using the middle mouse button to track or pan and zoom in with alt + right mouse button. And as we do, we see that this compound is kind of complex. Also notice that we see a message down here. In this particular case, it…
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