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Using the hotbox and marking menus

Using the hotbox and marking menus - Maya Tutorial

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Using the hotbox and marking menus

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- [Narrator] Maya has a lot of functionality that's hidden that you can actually access from under the mouse. Now, probably the most important ones of these are called the hotbox as well as marking menus. Now, the hotbox happens when you hold the space bar down. And when I do, notice how this menu comes up. And this menu is basically all of the menus for Maya, so you notice we have our file, edit, create, which are here, but we also have our mesh commands here as well as rigging, animation, and others. So just by holding down the space bar, you can access a lot of different menus. Now, another nice thing in here is a recent commands menu, which shows you all the commands that you just executed. So if you want to do something that's repetitive, this might be a way to make that go easier. Now, the marking menu can also change your viewport. So if I click in the middle here, I'm on a perspective view, but if I wanted to, I could go into top view and view that from the top. Again, space…

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