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Understanding the Hypergraph - Maya Tutorial
From the course: Maya 2018 Essential Training
Understanding the Hypergraph
- [Instructor] In addition to the Outliner, there are many other ways to view and organize your scenes in Maya. Probably the most important one of these is called the HyperGraph. So let's take a look at it. We can find the Hypergraph under Windows, General Editors and you'll see there's two entries here. One is called Hypergraph Hierarchy. The other one is called Hypergraph Connections. We're going to start with Hypergraph Hierarchy, because that simulates the functionality of the Outliner. When we select Hypergraph Hierarchy, notice how we get all of these different nodes. This window here is what's called a floating viewport, so you can navigate this like any other viewport. If you roll your middle mouse button, you can zoom in. You can hold down Alt or opt and middle click to drag, or right click to truck. The one thing that you can't do is orbit by left clicking, and that's because this is a 2D viewport. If you notice, inside this we have one node per object in the scene. And it's…
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