What gems you found there. The lack of logical thinking behind the Maya UI and tool design is appalling - I am greying rapidly these days.
Morten > Den 24. august 2017 klokken 23:50 skrev "Ponthieux, Joseph G. > (LARC-E1A)[LITES II]" <[email protected]>: > > > Having been requested to do a project that would be best suited to do in Maya > because of some of the features Maya provides by default, namely fluids, I > have been using Maya several weeks for the first time in a really long while. > > I thought I would share, especially from a Softimage perspective, apparently > Maya has some hidden hotkeys and some hidden commands associated to existing > hotkeys that did not exist in the past. > > > 1. Z key executes Undo. > > a. Its supposed to be Ctrl-Z, not Z, but apparently Z by itself does > the same thing > > b. As a former Softimage user, prone to hitting the Z key very often, > I've been hitting this key a lot this week. > > c. This command is documented, at least its searchable in the hot key > editor. > > d. The command is redundant and inconsistent and makes it to easy to > undo something. > > e. It has the potential to bite you by undoing your work without your > knowledge. > > > > 2. Ctrl-V executes a scene read, of the currently saved scene into the > existing scene > > a. This happens if you are in the outliner > > b. Its basically the equivalent of import scene > > c. It uses the current scene name as the import > > d. If the scene is previously saved it will add a copy of the scene into > the existing scene > > e. I was in outliner, renaming groups for a massively large scene, in > excess of 40000 objects, I forgot to double click an item in the outliner to > initiate the rename of the object name, now it is reading another 40,000+ > objects into my scene. It will be tomorrow before I can salvage it, if at > all... > > f. This command is undocumented, the hot key editor provides no > context for this behavior related to the outliner. > > > > 3. This occurs in Maya 2017. I am sure there are other insanities like > this lurking. Be warned.... > > > Joey > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] with > "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. ------ Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.
