Switching Between World Space, Local Space And Object Space

[bokaj]

Hi

Can somebody tell me how to switch between world space, local space and object space? In the manual I can only find the description of what it is but not on how to use it.

I am using a german keyboard (because I live in Austria) and on that keyboard the comma (,) replaces the period (.) on the numpad. This is really annoying me because I always have to use the period next to the space Alt button. Maya doesn't take the comma as a period. Can I switch these buttons somehow? Or assign a period to the comma on the numpad?

Also it seems to me that Maya (and other programms like Photoshop and Word) sometimes switches the "z" and "y" buttons in the middle of my work. So when I'm pressing Ctrl+Z it doesn't do anything. Is there a way to fix this?

Thanks!
bokaj

edit: I have another problem : I am trying to make a room. It is quite big and this happens when I scroll out:
http://img522.imageshack.us/my.php?image=roomzb0.jpg
http://img148.imageshack.us/my.php?image=room2hp0.jpg

[joojaa]

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Can somebody tell me how to switch between world space, local space and object space? In the manual I can only find the description of what it is but not on how to use it.

Well actually it is, they mention this in the general inner workings* , anyway double click on the move tool for tool options. Alternatively hold w down and lmb, or click the second most top left button above the channel box.

*They don't repeat stuff once they tell you something they assume you know it, the manual is meant to be read from beginning to the end.
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Maya doesn't take the comma as a period. Can I switch these buttons somehow? Or assign a period to the comma on the numpad?

Yes define a new keyboard layout. Anyway my Maya accepts comma just fine.

QUOTE(bokaj @ 05/17/07, 12:16 PM) [snapback]266228[/snapback]
Also it seems to me that Maya (and other programms like Photoshop and Word) sometimes switches the "z" and "y" buttons in the middle of my work. So when I'm pressing Ctrl+Z it doesn't do anything. Is there a way to fix this?

Windows has this cool language switching feature, and by default its set to ctrl+shift or ctrl+alt varies a bit by country. Now the trick is to ask windows kindly to disable this feature. Go to control panel, select regional and language options -> languages -> details -> key settings -> change key sequence and unchek all. while your at it take the sticky keys switching off to wich is triggered by 2 quick shift taps.
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edit: I have another problem sad.gif : I am trying to make a room. It is quite big and this happens when I scroll out:

select camera ,hit ctrl-a and edit the far clipping plane (its a good idea not to make the range between near and far too big so if you push tha far also push the near, however the range can easily be 100 times that but you can et artifacts)

or just type:

viewClipPlane -acp

[bokaj]

Wow, is there anything you don't know about Maya?
Thanks a lot!! Do you mean I should make a new keyboard layout in Windows? Or is there an keyboard layout option in maya?

[joojaa]

QUOTE(bokaj @ 05/21/07, 01:16 PM) [snapback]266385[/snapback]
Wow, is there anything you don't know about Maya?

Lots of things. Its just that the question works as well the other way around, mostly Anyway ive used computers since i was 7 years old so ive had a lot of practice in understanding them. But more than that, im interested in computers form a far more deeper perspective than it just works. So for example i spend time weighting the implications of next generation web standards even tough they wont probably be here in yet 2 years. Likewise my favorite hobby is to outguess what adobe does next, my track reord has been good so far, and they haven't surprised me since illustrator 8.

[bokaj]

QUOTE(Joojaa @ 05/21/07, 09:39 PM) [snapback]266410[/snapback]
Likewise my favorite hobby is to outguess what adobe does next, my track reord has been good so far, and they haven't surprised me since illustrator 8.

so tell me, what is adobe going to do next?

[joojaa]

Well, id have to analyze the cs 3 generation first. But on the long run AE is going to die because photo shop will become more and more like AE in future, CS is going to continue on the road till it kills of frame maker line (tough because adobe is a conservative strategy comppany they will let the applications affected die a slow and horrible death). Illustrator will gain a similliar kind of frame painting toolset of photoshop. Eventually the two will merge into one. Or alternatively illustrator will be cut off and photoshop inherits ist s functions, while illustrator goeas along and lives as the next gen flash authoring tool

On the funny side the scripting api of either illustrator wont still have ability to adjust pen pressures after the fact and no tool for mesh colors. on the other hand i expect this to come up at some point but they are way too sluggish here if it is in cs 3 id be happy and surprised for the firts time in ages.

[bokaj]

Hm, wouldn't it be a huge sales decrease if they merge all programs into one? I mean, the more different programs Adobe sells the more money they will make, right?

[joojaa]

QUOTE(bokaj @ 05/23/07, 01:59 PM) [snapback]266511[/snapback]
Hm, wouldn't it be a huge sales decrease if they merge all programs into one?

Quantity perhaps but not money. They allready.split photoshop into 2 programs one more expensive then the other. See on the long run the price of both will come down. but by making gradually a super app you can continue keeping the value up because you can say its a newer app. Besides adobe sells bundles anyway, theesedays more than single apps. See problem is that unless they keep making changes into photoshop that make it better and more versatile they wont sell it at all (because theres only so much they can do for the app, many users still use archaic versions of photoshop), as they have allready saturated their market, so say 1/2 or 1/3 is form people doing upgrades, and form that point it makes sense.

However if they keep 2 titles that eventually are the same, then the other will die off. However they are also keeping the cost of development up with this scheme.

So it will become like the cellular phone market, wich does not grow inw western world by newe customers but by upgrading old ones. So you need to carter for these people, they dont need a new illustrator or photo shop. They already have that, but if they could stop paging between the two now thats a upgradeable prospect. This is also why PS went to animation and 3d arenas... their original print area is saturated.

[bokaj]

that makes sense.

though I didn't know that you could do animation (ImageReady?) and 3D with photoshop!?

[joojaa]

you can in cs3 extreme,, which brings adobe to a dillema. n where photoshop is eating their other lines. Its not a 3d modeler but it can read in 3d models to paint on.

[bokaj]

maybe Adobe'll come out with a 3D animation software in 5 years
would be possible, aye? I mean Google has done it - in some way, i guess

[joojaa]

QUOTE(bokaj @ 05/24/07, 02:13 PM) [snapback]266654[/snapback]
maybe Adobe'll come out with a 3D animation software in 5 years

They already did, it didn't do wery well tough.

http://www.adobe.com/products/dimensions/index.html

thing is adobe is far too slow to incorporate new technology or innovating new strategies to keep up with 3d production demands