09/29/2020: Spent more than a few hours today improving the setup and actually implementing this blog – hence why you can see Day One below me actually posted today as well. Changing my setup to two monitors was a nobrainer – now I can watch the tutorials on one monitor while following along in Maya on the other. So far the different refresh rates between them isn’t melting my face or anything like it. When returning to the basic Maya tutorial the coolest thing so far was soft select of objects allowing the movement of multiple objects – the example in the tutorial was the individual rocks in the retaining wall of a pond, so by using a soft select the instructor demonstrated grabbing one stone and pulling the others out with it to make a more organic curved wall. Cool stuff, and all the other review was extremely helpful – lots of good fundamentals on how important is to build a proper heirarchy in the outliner. In many ways Wings3d, my tool of choice for my amateur projects, has a very simplified version of the Maya outliner.
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