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Use the Modeling Toolkit

Use the Modeling Toolkit - Maya Tutorial

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Use the Modeling Toolkit

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- [Instructor] Once you become familiar with modeling you may want to start using the modeling tool kit. Now you can find that along the status line right here. And that brings up this interface. Now, this tool kit has a lot of the same features that you'll find under the menus. It just makes it easier to access. So, we can go from object mode. To vertex mode here. Edge mode. To face mode. So I have a number of different modes that I can go into. I can also go into the UV mode which we haven't gotten to, but we will. We can also pick marquee. We can drag so I can actually select different types of vertices here, or edges. We can also turn on or off symmetries. So if I want to, I can turn on object symmetry. We can also manage soft selection, so if I want to, I could turn off soft selection. Or turn it on. And then we have a number of really nice tools here. We have combine and separate. Which are two of our main mesh tools. We also have boolians. We also have smooth, which allows you…

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