WEBVTT 00:00.300 --> 00:05.630 Welcome back and let's quickly cover how to move things around in Miah, there's a couple of things 00:05.640 --> 00:07.760 I understand, especially in 3D that's important. 00:08.040 --> 00:11.430 And so let's jump right in and cover that from the previous lesson. 00:11.430 --> 00:12.750 I still have this fear here. 00:12.750 --> 00:17.430 If you don't have that, I can just delete that and we can go up here to this polygon sphere and click 00:17.430 --> 00:17.760 that. 00:18.150 --> 00:22.890 You can also get to it by going to create polygon primitives and sphere. 00:23.080 --> 00:26.190 One other thing that's kind of fun with these menus is you can actually tear them off. 00:26.190 --> 00:28.800 So you can see there's this little option here. 00:28.920 --> 00:34.230 If I hover my mouse just above this and most menus have this, this one has it, you know, most all 00:34.230 --> 00:35.960 of these menus have this little option here. 00:36.360 --> 00:41.730 So if I knew I was going to make a lot of primitives, a lot of spheres or something, just as an example, 00:41.730 --> 00:45.390 I can just click that and I'll have this kind of menu torn off. 00:45.390 --> 00:47.220 So I now I can just click this a bunch of times. 00:47.220 --> 00:54.090 And if I open up my outliner, windows, outliner, I can see I made a bunch of spheres really need 00:54.090 --> 00:54.450 one. 00:54.450 --> 00:59.790 So I'm going to shift select all of those below it and hit delete and I'll select the sphere here. 01:00.180 --> 01:06.360 I'm also going to click and drag this outliner and let it over here and let go. 01:06.360 --> 01:12.990 So it'll kind of dockett and the window here when I close this menu that I had hovering and now I can 01:12.990 --> 01:14.910 get back to it, you know, up here if I want. 01:15.840 --> 01:22.140 Now that we have the sphere, you can see that there's these kind of squares and different things going 01:22.140 --> 01:22.590 on here. 01:22.590 --> 01:27.900 So let's take a look at the way that we manipulate things in Maya is basically through several different 01:27.900 --> 01:31.230 tools, one of which is you may have already seen by hitting. 01:31.230 --> 01:34.410 Q You can get to the select tool or you can select it up here. 01:35.100 --> 01:36.690 It's just the cursor option. 01:36.690 --> 01:38.820 I can select the object here just by left. 01:38.820 --> 01:42.090 Mouse clicking I can also select it from the outliner here. 01:42.870 --> 01:46.080 So we've got the object selected, but now I want to move it. 01:46.080 --> 01:46.710 How do I move it? 01:47.040 --> 01:51.570 I can hit w all my keyboard to pull up the shortcut for the manipulator. 01:51.570 --> 01:53.310 I can also selected over here. 01:53.430 --> 02:00.210 You see the move tool is what the tooltip says, and you can see as well that in parentheses it says 02:00.210 --> 02:03.900 W so we can also see the shortcut is listed there. 02:05.360 --> 02:11.810 So now with the spear selected and if you notice, even with even with the move to a selected, I can 02:11.810 --> 02:12.950 select different objects. 02:13.100 --> 02:16.460 You don't always have to have the select tool selected to select new things. 02:16.760 --> 02:19.910 You can have the move to a selected and you can still select stuff. 02:20.390 --> 02:24.320 So you can also click and drag to select things in a group. 02:25.100 --> 02:28.460 So now that we have this one thing, let's move it around. 02:28.730 --> 02:33.470 I can click access and it'll be isolated to that access on do that. 02:34.010 --> 02:40.070 And you can see it's isolated because the axes manipulator turned yellow. 02:40.370 --> 02:44.030 If I click the vertical one, it turns yellow or the Z axis. 02:44.030 --> 02:45.210 It also turns yellow. 02:45.530 --> 02:51.110 So now I know no matter if my mouse is going up and down or something weird, that it's only going to 02:51.110 --> 02:52.220 go along that axis. 02:52.640 --> 02:58.790 But if I want to have a free movement, I can just click in the middle and move the thing around wherever 02:58.790 --> 02:59.210 I want it. 03:00.020 --> 03:05.600 The other thing I can do is isolate on two axes and that's what these little squares are here at that 03:05.600 --> 03:10.880 I can you know, no, I'm only moving it in the vertical and x axis. 03:11.480 --> 03:17.210 I use little I use these quite a bit, actually, because in 3D space, it's hard to tell where you're 03:17.210 --> 03:19.490 moving something sometimes. 03:19.490 --> 03:24.410 So, you know, it's hard to tell if that's actually vertically up or if I moved it back in space. 03:24.740 --> 03:29.000 So by selecting these, you can tell that I'm not moving it up, I'm moving it. 03:29.000 --> 03:32.840 And the X and Z on this flat plane, this grid. 03:33.680 --> 03:38.660 And if you can't see this grid for some reason, if didn't default to that, you can also turn that 03:38.660 --> 03:39.800 on here or turn it off. 03:39.800 --> 03:42.460 If it's distracting, that's just one of these little options up here. 03:43.490 --> 03:50.840 So now that we know how to move things around, let's rotate it so we can hit it on the keyboard. 03:50.990 --> 03:54.830 And similarly, we can find it over here and this little tool box window. 03:55.430 --> 04:01.820 And you can actually turn off these options from Windows UI elements and you can turn off the. 04:03.080 --> 04:03.770 Toolbox. 04:05.020 --> 04:10.900 Now you see that disappears, you find yourself not using those, it's nice to turn them off and you 04:10.900 --> 04:12.820 have more screen real estate for the viewport. 04:13.540 --> 04:18.040 But for now, since we're all beginners and we're just starting out, let's leave that up. 04:18.040 --> 04:19.690 So I'll go back to the. 04:20.900 --> 04:28.610 UI elements, meaning user interface, and I'll go down the toolbox and bring that back, so with the 04:28.610 --> 04:34.700 rotation, it's very similar that we can isolate different axes and they turn yellow and we can click 04:34.700 --> 04:38.200 in the middle here and have a free form option. 04:38.990 --> 04:42.920 One thing to keep in mind is because we're working on 3D. 04:44.470 --> 04:49.490 Watch the x axis, if I click the Zhaxi and drag the red one down. 04:50.170 --> 04:54.880 Now the red one is where the green one used to be. 04:55.150 --> 04:55.740 Did you see that? 04:55.750 --> 04:56.650 So I just undid it. 04:57.460 --> 05:01.420 So right now, the green one is kind of going around. 05:02.600 --> 05:08.090 And and if I bring the x axis, the red one down now, that's replaced it. 05:08.570 --> 05:11.660 So who's to say which axis is which now? 05:12.110 --> 05:15.980 Because before I rotated it, the green one was down near the Y axis. 05:16.340 --> 05:19.420 But now because I rotated Z, X axis is down here. 05:19.880 --> 05:26.030 So this option, this kind of view that we're seeing is based on the object, right. 05:26.300 --> 05:28.970 Because the object is rotating, the axis are changing. 05:29.570 --> 05:34.480 And that's something very important to keep in mind because that'll be important later in animation 05:34.490 --> 05:34.850 stuff. 05:35.150 --> 05:41.900 So just keep that in mind that because now we're in 3D, these things actually kind of matter and we 05:41.900 --> 05:44.020 can control them in different ways. 05:44.030 --> 05:50.120 If we hold down E, which is the shortcut for rotation, if we hold down on our keyboard and then click 05:50.780 --> 05:56.190 left mouse click, we can drag to the world option. 05:57.320 --> 06:04.280 So now you can see the manipulator pop back to have the green going around here like it was before, 06:04.280 --> 06:06.540 even though the object is rotated. 06:07.070 --> 06:13.490 So what this is saying is we're now rotating based on the world axis, which never change. 06:13.490 --> 06:13.840 Right? 06:14.090 --> 06:19.310 So even when we move an object around, you can see the manipulator itself is not changing. 06:19.880 --> 06:24.440 So we can always have the option even if an object is rotated. 06:24.440 --> 06:27.320 Weird to isolate based on the world axis. 06:27.320 --> 06:32.270 We just need to change that by holding down E and clicking and choosing this option. 06:32.960 --> 06:36.380 If we go back to object, you can see it still kept all those changes. 06:37.190 --> 06:42.350 And now based on the objects rotation, we can see the axes are moving all around. 06:42.740 --> 06:46.390 And and so that's just something to keep in mind for later. 06:46.790 --> 06:49.280 So when we get an animation, this will be important. 06:49.280 --> 06:51.990 And I'll explain later in animation why that is important. 06:52.220 --> 06:58.100 So the other thing that just for myself, I like to do as I like to only ever stay on the channel box 06:58.400 --> 07:03.140 unless I'm doing something very specific, because you can see this attribute, Ed here. 07:03.140 --> 07:05.480 You can see it, says Ashrita, editor, right here on the side. 07:05.810 --> 07:06.980 It takes up a ton of room. 07:06.980 --> 07:09.620 There's just a lot of stuff going on and we don't need it. 07:09.630 --> 07:16.760 And so I like to keep the channel box open because now we can see the values. 07:16.760 --> 07:21.190 We can zero them out, we can click and drag them and then hit zero and zero everything out. 07:21.650 --> 07:27.500 This is way more useful when we're moving stuff around than the appropriate editor and also can can 07:27.500 --> 07:30.890 slide that down to free up more space for the viewport. 07:31.610 --> 07:38.810 So similarly to the rotation axes being different, the move axes can also be different. 07:39.080 --> 07:44.780 So right now you can see even though the object is rotated, the axes are pointing relative to the world. 07:45.170 --> 07:50.750 So if we hold down w similarly like we held on E earlier, we hold down W in left click, we get the 07:50.750 --> 07:53.360 same option, right world object. 07:54.110 --> 07:57.260 So now we can see it's following the rotation. 07:57.530 --> 08:00.050 So it's following the object axis now. 08:00.590 --> 08:06.740 So that's just two different ways to manipulate the same object based on its own axes or based on the 08:06.740 --> 08:07.870 world axes. 08:08.360 --> 08:10.330 So that's important. 08:10.640 --> 08:13.180 The final thing we're going to talk about is the scale. 08:13.490 --> 08:20.000 And if you hit R or you can go over here and click the scale button or the scale tool and we can scale 08:20.000 --> 08:23.480 uniformally and we can also scale on axes. 08:23.990 --> 08:25.340 And that's pretty straightforward. 08:25.770 --> 08:29.630 So we've gotten this far and we haven't moved around anything. 08:29.630 --> 08:30.890 How do we move around? 08:31.460 --> 08:34.330 So we have an object now let's move around it. 08:34.340 --> 08:39.800 I want to zoom into it how I zoom in, I can mouse scroll, which I don't use that much. 08:40.550 --> 08:44.690 But the other option I have is a hole down alt and right. 08:44.690 --> 08:48.920 Click and then drag my mouse and you can see I'm doing the same thing. 08:48.920 --> 08:49.760 I'm zooming in out. 08:50.510 --> 08:54.650 And this is why you need a Three Mighty Mouse, because now if you click and hold the middle mouse button, 08:55.010 --> 09:03.560 I can pan around and then if I still holding alt if I left click I can rotate around an object. 09:04.400 --> 09:14.370 So with the combination of these three things, I can do all sorts of moves and zoom in on things and 09:14.380 --> 09:18.260 say I get way out here and I can't really see what I'm working on. 09:18.650 --> 09:23.660 I can click and drag and select the thing I can select from the outliner and then I'm going to hit F, 09:24.260 --> 09:30.740 so F and I jump back to the selection that I have and now I'm free to move around again and do all that 09:31.040 --> 09:36.080 and also get to that option from the View menu here and go to view frame selection. 09:37.300 --> 09:42.940 One other thing that's very helpful is look at selection, so, for example, if we're over here, I'm 09:42.940 --> 09:46.770 rotating around, I'm not rotating around the object anymore. 09:47.200 --> 09:47.860 And why is that? 09:47.890 --> 09:53.380 That's because my center of interest is somewhere over here and I can't rotate around the object. 09:53.710 --> 09:57.340 So if I want to rotate around the object, I can go look at selection. 09:57.730 --> 10:02.110 So the position of the camera didn't change, but now it's just rotated, looking at this selection 10:02.110 --> 10:05.170 and now I can pivot around that object. 10:05.800 --> 10:09.150 So that's one way to help control your camera. 10:09.490 --> 10:13.120 And if your camera gets too crazy, you can always select it from here. 10:13.840 --> 10:18.300 Select camera, which is whatever camera this viewport is, will select it. 10:18.580 --> 10:20.950 You can also selected from the outliner because we know it's Persse. 10:20.980 --> 10:28.060 You can see on here PZP Persse perspective and you can see now we have all the values here and we could 10:28.060 --> 10:30.370 just zero those out if things got too crazy. 10:30.850 --> 10:36.880 And of course now we're inside the sphere because we're at zero worldspace and now you can see I'm rotating 10:36.880 --> 10:38.410 from some crazy point out there. 10:38.590 --> 10:42.730 I can select my object, hit F and I'm rotating around it and I'm back. 10:43.120 --> 10:48.180 So that's a quick introduction on how to move scale, rotate and move the camera round. 10:48.550 --> 10:50.680 Thanks for watching and I'll see the next lesson.