Maya notes on UI
MAYA NOTES - User Interface
- Bottom line: Help Line
Put cursor over an item and this displays a helpful hint about it
- Main viewing area
For display of:
- Object views
- Hypergraph
- Material properites
- etc.
- Menu of tools and functions - top 4 lines
- top line: Main menu
- 2nd line: Menu set - selection by leftmost pull-down menu
- 3rd line: pulldown manuls of menu set
- 4th line: Shelf: Menu shortcuts for tools including MEL scripts that you write
- Left tool panel
Column at left for selection, transformations, quick layout
- pointer, lasso
- translate, rotate, scale
- perspective view, 4 panel view
- Right Panel
Selected by the upper rightmost 3 icons
- Channel Box & Layers
- Attribute Editor
- Tool Editor
- Animation Aids
2 lines near bottom (just above last 2 lines at bottom) across width of window
- Timeline
- Playback controls
- Range Slider
- Character Menu
- MEL input
The second to last line at bottom of page:
- single MEL command input box (left)
- system feedback to command (right)
- Icon to pull up the MEL input/output panel (extreme right)