Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
Navigating with Menu Sets, Marking Menus, and The Hotbox
There are various ways to navigate the menus in Maya. Each person has their own prefer-
ence, but you will no doubt use every method at some point in your work with Maya.
Across the top of Maya's user interface is the
main menu bar.
This menu can be changed,
dependingonwhatareaofMayayouareworkingin,byusingthe
menu sets.
Themenusets
are located at the left of the status bar (
Figure 2.6
)
. You can change among the Animation
(F2), Modeling (F3), Dynamics (F4), and Rendering (F5) menu sets. Each group opens up
new tools specific to that job.
FIGURE 2.6
Menu sets
Right-clicking an object will open up a
marking menu,
Maya's term for a contextual menu
(
Figure 2.7
)
.Thesemenusgivequickeraccesstosomeofthetoolsyouwillcommonlyuse
with that object—for example, component selection.
