WEBVTT 00:00.470 --> 00:05.210 Welcome to this first lesson in Mile, where we're going to cover the interface, it's the first thing 00:05.210 --> 00:06.330 you see when you open mine. 00:06.380 --> 00:08.210 So it's good to get familiarized with it. 00:08.540 --> 00:13.550 And as you go through this course, you will become more and more familiar with it and comfortable using 00:13.550 --> 00:13.760 it. 00:14.060 --> 00:19.160 But it's a great place to start just so that we know what we're looking at, because it's easy to get 00:19.160 --> 00:21.930 intimidated when you're first starting to learn 3D. 00:22.160 --> 00:29.270 I know I was when I opened up a program and you see all of these buttons and all of these menus and 00:29.270 --> 00:31.730 you have no idea what's important and what's not. 00:32.180 --> 00:35.890 And it just looks like some crazy alien interface. 00:35.900 --> 00:37.330 And where do you even begin with that? 00:37.670 --> 00:39.500 So that's why I have this lesson. 00:39.710 --> 00:44.660 You can refer back to it, but it's also just kind of to ease your fears, right? 00:44.670 --> 00:50.000 Like you're not going to need to learn every single little button and menu option here to be successful 00:50.000 --> 00:51.350 and Miah and use it. 00:51.830 --> 00:54.530 I'm going to show you the things that we use the most. 00:54.890 --> 01:00.740 And in this interface, I'm going to show you kind of how to visually categorize these things so you 01:00.740 --> 01:03.800 can kind of know, OK, I'm probably not going to use this. 01:03.800 --> 01:08.060 So visually, I don't need to worry about kind of that chaos of all these buttons up here. 01:08.420 --> 01:11.210 So let's just kind of take an overall look at this. 01:11.210 --> 01:14.990 Normally, when you open up, Maya, you're going to get some type of a view like this. 01:15.290 --> 01:22.700 And you can see down here that it says RSP and that tells us the camera view that we're viewing in the 01:22.700 --> 01:23.210 viewport. 01:23.210 --> 01:25.070 And that's what this middle section is here. 01:25.070 --> 01:26.300 This is called the viewport. 01:26.750 --> 01:29.090 And you can see the axes down here on the lower left. 01:29.610 --> 01:33.190 So you can see why is up and Z is kind of to the left. 01:33.740 --> 01:38.390 And so this is where we're going to see everything that's happening in our scene. 01:38.810 --> 01:41.690 And down here, we have a timeline for when we start animating. 01:42.080 --> 01:44.810 We can scrub this, we can play it over here. 01:44.810 --> 01:49.010 We can set it to loop back several times by clicking that. 01:49.010 --> 01:53.900 We can turn on auto key, turn that off, change the frame range, all these things. 01:53.900 --> 01:57.890 But typically when I'm using this, I use it just like this. 01:57.890 --> 02:04.430 I scrub, I look, and then I can change frame range clicking and dragging that or typing in numbers 02:04.430 --> 02:04.790 here. 02:05.240 --> 02:12.140 And these two numbers actually just mean the kind of in and out points of what we're looking at versus 02:12.140 --> 02:12.830 the whole scene. 02:12.830 --> 02:13.130 Right. 02:13.130 --> 02:20.240 So you can see we can kind of adjust this and slide this around, but it doesn't change the first number. 02:20.240 --> 02:26.150 And that's why that's kind of the absolute values of the in and out of the scene. 02:26.480 --> 02:34.760 But we can temporarily change that kind of scale so we can see, you know, a smaller scale of the timeline. 02:34.910 --> 02:38.600 So it's easier to scrub a smaller section if it's a very big shot or something like that. 02:38.990 --> 02:45.020 And if you double click it, it will jump out to the whole thing and maximize to the entire length of 02:45.020 --> 02:47.090 the frame range that you've said. 02:47.870 --> 02:49.250 So that's the bottom part. 02:49.250 --> 02:53.810 And you can see down here in the bottom left, this will be very helpful as you're starting this whole 02:53.810 --> 02:56.930 display, short help, tips and tools and selections. 02:56.930 --> 03:03.710 So if I'm going up here and I don't know what this is and I hover over it, I'll get a tool tip that 03:03.710 --> 03:04.370 will pop up. 03:04.820 --> 03:07.730 But if you're looking in the lower left as well, it'll say the same thing. 03:07.730 --> 03:12.050 So if you're a little impatient for the tooltip to pop up, you can just look in the lower left and 03:12.050 --> 03:16.160 you can see as I scrub my mouse through, I'm not clicking anything. 03:16.160 --> 03:16.940 I'm just hovering over. 03:16.940 --> 03:22.160 Everything you can see is showing me what each one of these tools is named and what they do. 03:22.610 --> 03:26.620 And if you leave it over there, you know, the tool tip will also pop up. 03:27.170 --> 03:30.710 So that's one quick way to figure out what all these little things do up here. 03:31.460 --> 03:33.380 Don't worry about what each one of them does yet. 03:33.380 --> 03:34.340 We'll get into that later. 03:34.340 --> 03:38.480 But just know, you know, these are different tabs for different kind of sections. 03:38.930 --> 03:45.080 And these sections are also kind of related to these different dropdown menus here. 03:45.350 --> 03:52.490 Maya tries to organize the menus into different disciplines so you can see modeling, rigging, animation. 03:52.670 --> 03:57.380 It's all separate into their own menu sets because typically, if you're doing one, you're not really 03:57.380 --> 03:58.280 going to be doing the other. 03:58.610 --> 04:05.840 And in a production, normally, this is kind of the linear workflow of how things are made anyways. 04:06.050 --> 04:10.790 First model something, then you riggert the animated, for example, you can't really animate something 04:10.790 --> 04:13.160 that doesn't exist, so you have to model it first. 04:13.520 --> 04:16.340 And if you're going to regret that, you need to rig it before animation. 04:16.610 --> 04:21.470 So it's just kind of they try to do it in a way, an order that makes sense for how you're going to 04:21.590 --> 04:24.180 create things and animate things and render things. 04:24.230 --> 04:26.390 That's why these are ordered the way they are. 04:26.780 --> 04:31.790 And you can see that they change the menu options up here, but only after windows. 04:32.090 --> 04:33.710 You can see watch windows. 04:33.710 --> 04:37.160 And as I change the options, Windows stays the same. 04:37.160 --> 04:42.860 So everything from file to windows is never going to change and everything after that will and a lot 04:42.860 --> 04:43.580 of these things. 04:43.580 --> 04:49.430 So I'm in the animation tab here and the drop down menu and I'm on the animation shelf here. 04:49.850 --> 04:52.400 And you can see there's a play blast. 04:52.430 --> 04:54.200 There's different kind of options. 04:54.590 --> 04:57.740 And a lot of those things are also here. 04:58.040 --> 04:59.210 So you can see play blast. 04:59.350 --> 05:00.260 Is here as well. 05:00.820 --> 05:06.220 It's the same icon, it's the same tooltip, so even though there's all these different buttons, they 05:06.220 --> 05:08.320 actually just put them in more than one place. 05:08.320 --> 05:14.170 So it makes it look more complicated than it is because the same option is put in several different 05:14.170 --> 05:14.820 places. 05:15.130 --> 05:17.680 So, for example, with play blast, I could actually even. 05:17.680 --> 05:17.950 Right. 05:17.950 --> 05:21.610 Click on the timeline down here and it's off the screen. 05:22.060 --> 05:26.950 But if you do this on your and your Miah, you can go down to the bottom and you can see an option for 05:26.950 --> 05:27.850 play blast again. 05:28.120 --> 05:30.970 So Play Blast, for example, is in three different places. 05:31.300 --> 05:36.160 So, you know, this is also another reason why not to get overwhelmed by all these options, because 05:36.670 --> 05:38.500 visually, it looks like there's a ton of them. 05:38.500 --> 05:44.260 But really, they're just the same ones over and over in different ways, you know, depending on how 05:44.260 --> 05:50.740 you want to work or select options or menus or how you want to select tools, then they try to give 05:50.740 --> 05:54.450 you as many options as you want to, really, which is a little too much. 05:54.460 --> 05:57.820 Typically, you're only ever going to, you know, use this up here or the shelf. 05:57.820 --> 05:59.110 It's whatever you're comfortable with. 05:59.380 --> 06:06.350 I find it kind of hard to remember what each one of these icons are and then to wait for the, you know, 06:06.370 --> 06:07.390 tooltip to pop up. 06:07.390 --> 06:15.460 Typically what I'm going through the menu up here and I'm not using this as much, but it's definitely 06:15.490 --> 06:20.710 nice to have sometimes on a couple of different things, like, you know, in this course I'm probably 06:20.710 --> 06:23.610 going to make, you know, a couple of sphere's just to show you how things work. 06:23.630 --> 06:25.720 We'll get into manipulating things in the next lesson. 06:26.110 --> 06:30.580 But, you know, besides that, I don't really use the shelf options all that much. 06:30.910 --> 06:35.920 So now that we have this kind of shelf option and some of these menu things covered, let's look at 06:35.920 --> 06:36.880 what's in between them. 06:36.910 --> 06:39.880 We kind of see this, you know, drop down menu that we talked about. 06:40.150 --> 06:46.420 Then there's all these buttons up here and they all do different types of things that we're going to 06:46.420 --> 06:47.790 get into a lot later. 06:48.040 --> 06:53.380 So for right now, just know that you don't really have to worry about any of these things and we'll 06:53.380 --> 06:55.420 slowly cover these later. 06:55.450 --> 06:57.460 These aren't super, super important and getting started. 06:57.460 --> 06:59.520 So we're just going to skip them now for the interface. 06:59.530 --> 07:00.670 Don't worry about these. 07:01.300 --> 07:05.560 So the next kind of thing we want to look at are these different windows as well. 07:05.560 --> 07:08.350 So we have, you know, a blank window here. 07:08.350 --> 07:09.700 We have blank window here. 07:10.000 --> 07:11.800 They have their own little tabs here. 07:12.340 --> 07:14.290 And then there's these tabs on the side. 07:14.560 --> 07:18.480 So, again, it seems like there's a ton of options, but it's really not. 07:18.490 --> 07:25.450 So, for example, with this tab, this can actually be, you know, closed down by clicking it or double 07:25.450 --> 07:26.710 clicking it to open it back up. 07:27.130 --> 07:32.770 But if you noticed here, this little button gets highlighted and again highlighted as we're clicking 07:32.770 --> 07:32.980 it. 07:33.220 --> 07:35.620 So it's the same thing like we were talking about earlier, the play blast. 07:35.920 --> 07:40.240 It's just a different way to select kind of menu options here. 07:40.660 --> 07:44.110 So you can do it from up here or you can do it from this tab. 07:45.370 --> 07:46.960 So you can see the modelling tool kit. 07:46.960 --> 07:49.600 We can go back to the attributes or we could select over here. 07:49.630 --> 07:55.990 So why this is significant is because if I create a sphere, this is going to tell me the name. 07:56.350 --> 07:58.480 It's going to tell me where it is and space. 07:59.050 --> 08:04.030 Is it on as a visible and the history of the object and any inputs there are. 08:04.780 --> 08:06.250 So I can see what the inputs are. 08:07.230 --> 08:14.940 So this is kind of a quick way to see what's the status of this object where it is if I go to the attribute 08:14.940 --> 08:15.420 Ed? 08:16.650 --> 08:22.290 I can kind of see this information displayed a little bit differently so I can see translate as all 08:22.290 --> 08:26.280 zero if we go back to the channel box, we can see that's shown here as well. 08:26.610 --> 08:29.310 Just the same thing shown twice like we're talking about earlier. 08:29.580 --> 08:33.360 I want to help simplify this stuff in your mind so you don't feel like that. 08:33.720 --> 08:35.640 You know, this is something different than this. 08:35.640 --> 08:36.090 It's not. 08:36.090 --> 08:37.020 It's the same thing. 08:37.020 --> 08:38.180 It's just in a different place. 08:38.370 --> 08:44.100 So just to kind of emphasize this again, I wanted to show you something that I use quite a bit. 08:44.220 --> 08:50.460 If you hold down spacebar, you will get the hotbox many what Maya calls the hotbox menu. 08:50.910 --> 08:56.520 And I'm holding down Space Bar and I have all of the menu options available to me. 08:56.640 --> 09:02.330 You might be able to tell that is ordered the same exact way that the tabs over here ordered. 09:02.670 --> 09:10.770 So modeling, you can see mesh mesh, edit mesh, edit mesh mesh tools, mesh tools and so on and so 09:10.770 --> 09:11.010 on. 09:11.220 --> 09:14.220 You can see rigging, animation effects and rendering. 09:14.510 --> 09:16.860 That's the exact same way this is laid out over here. 09:17.140 --> 09:22.860 So it's just a quicker way to get to all of these menus is by holding down Space Bar and I use that 09:22.860 --> 09:23.480 quite a bit. 09:23.490 --> 09:28.680 It took me a couple of years to get used to it and actually use it because I think it does take a little 09:28.680 --> 09:31.500 familiarity with Maya to feel comfortable with this. 09:31.500 --> 09:34.620 But the sooner I use this, the quicker you'll be in Maya. 09:34.620 --> 09:40.080 And I would highly encourage you to use this instead of having to hunt around for stuff up here and 09:40.080 --> 09:41.250 changing menus. 09:41.610 --> 09:44.520 You can get to everything right here by holding down space bar. 09:44.550 --> 09:48.810 So that's a pretty useful tip that I think will be useful even more later. 09:48.930 --> 09:54.870 Now that we know what the channel boxes and the difference with the attribute editor, let's jump over 09:54.870 --> 09:56.140 to this section. 09:56.170 --> 09:58.650 We can see the viewport has its own options. 09:58.650 --> 10:02.010 And if you hover over each one of these objects, you'll also get the tooltip. 10:02.010 --> 10:07.950 And so I won't go over each one of these because to be honest, they're not very helpful as a beginner 10:07.950 --> 10:09.720 starting out, these aren't really that important. 10:09.720 --> 10:12.600 But I did want to talk about the different views and Maya. 10:12.600 --> 10:15.420 So if I don't hold on space, want to just tap it. 10:16.320 --> 10:18.510 You can see I get multiple views. 10:18.510 --> 10:22.410 And typically what you'll see, just click this over here is something like this when you're just starting 10:22.410 --> 10:22.980 out, Maya. 10:23.460 --> 10:28.920 So if I had spacebar again with my mouse just hovering over a different window, I'm not clicking anything 10:28.920 --> 10:29.520 with my mouse. 10:29.910 --> 10:36.720 I can jump into those views and you can see what the views are by the camera name, top Y, front Z, 10:36.720 --> 10:38.130 side X perspective. 10:38.610 --> 10:40.950 And so we can jump between different perspective views. 10:40.950 --> 10:44.520 If we need to see something top down and modeling, we can do that. 10:44.970 --> 10:48.360 So that's one quick way to divide up the screen as well. 10:48.780 --> 10:55.170 So if we want to divide the screen in a different way, we can go to panels, layouts and we can say 10:55.170 --> 10:56.460 two pane side by side. 10:56.460 --> 11:01.740 And that's what I had earlier that you saw, because this is the way I like to animate sometimes so 11:02.100 --> 11:03.730 I can get back to the perspective. 11:03.750 --> 11:09.480 You just by hitting space bar and these kind of buttons over here just kind of like shortcuts to these 11:09.480 --> 11:10.740 different modes as well. 11:11.250 --> 11:13.860 Instead of hitting spacebar, you can kind of jump through. 11:14.250 --> 11:18.870 And one of the last things I want to talk about is the outliner and outliner. 11:18.900 --> 11:20.790 You're going to have open and spend a lot of time. 11:20.790 --> 11:26.310 And because it's basically a table of contents of what's in your scene, you can see that we have these 11:26.310 --> 11:29.850 different cameras that we saw earlier when we were in the kind of four view setup. 11:30.300 --> 11:31.980 And they're all great because they're hidden. 11:31.980 --> 11:37.590 We can actually see them in the interface so we can see the the previous one. 11:38.010 --> 11:43.050 And that's one way that we can select this object or we can select it just by clicking it left. 11:43.050 --> 11:45.990 Mouse clicking So that's kind of two ways. 11:45.990 --> 11:50.010 This like things you either through the outliner or through the viewport. 11:50.790 --> 11:55.020 So that is a quick rundown on the interface. 11:55.020 --> 11:58.190 I hope it got you a little more familiarized with what you're looking at when you open up Miah. 11:58.200 --> 12:00.120 It's not as intimidating as it seems. 12:00.510 --> 12:04.890 And if you follow along with this course, you will just pick up these things. 12:04.890 --> 12:11.700 And so that I won't have to walk through each little button kind of in a dry way, we'll take a project 12:11.700 --> 12:17.130 based approach so that you'll get more familiar with the interface as we go along. 12:17.400 --> 12:18.660 So thanks for watching. 12:18.660 --> 12:25.320 And I'll see in the next lesson where we will briefly cover manipulators and how to move stuff around. 12:25.320 --> 12:26.640 And Maya, thanks for watching.