General

Folders

File

What is the 3D Paint Tool?

.ma file format

.mb file format

.mel file format

3D Paint Tool limitations

3D_Paint_Toolaie.html

A simple window

About file referencing

About particle expressions

About proxy references

About proxy tags

About the Reference Editor

Accessing global variables

Activating the software from a serial number

Add a marking menu to the hotbox

Add a new panel to the list of available panels

Add a tool, action, or MEL script to a shelf

Add dynamic attributes

Add spring behavior to strokes with tubes

Adding comments

Additional Linux notes

Additional resources

Additional setup for networked licenses

Advanced_animation_expressions_topics.html

Advanced_customization.html

Advanced_programming_topics.html

AIFF file format

Align_and_snap.html

angular velocity

Animate a plant growing up a column

Animate a starfield

Animate rain effects

Animate textures on strokes

Animate the stroke path

Animate tube growth, gaps, twist, and textures

Animating_strokes.html

Animation (Display) preferences

Animation (Settings) preferences

animation control

Animation expressions

Animation playblast limitations

Animation_dynamics_and_rendering.html

Animation_expressions.html

Annotate or document objects

Annotate_and_measure.html

API and Devkit limitations

API_and_Devkit.html

Application preferences

Array arguments are passed by reference

Array_functions.html

Arrays_vectors_and_matrices.html

Artisan limitations

Artisan Tool Settings editor

Artisan_3D_Paint_and_Paint_Effects.html

Artisan_Menus.html

Artisan_overview.html

Artisan_Windows_and_Editors.html

Assign a marking menu to a hotkey

Assign a MEL script to a hotkey

Assign a predefined command to a hotkey

Assign to a custom attribute

Assign to a particle array attribute of different length

Assign to a vector array attribute component

Assign to a vector variable

Assign to vectors and vector arrays

Assigning values to variables and attributes

Attach brushes to curves

Attaching commands to UI elements

Attribute Editor

Attribute Editor

Attribute names

Attribute Spread Sheet

Attribute Spread Sheet

Attributes overview

Attributes.html

Autodesk Maya 8.5 release notes

Autodesk Maya Error Report

automatic mapping

Automatic type conversion

Automatically paint multiple strokes on a surface

backface culling (backculling)

Background.html

barrier constraint

Basic_interface.html

Basics_Menus.html

Basics_Nodes.html

Basics_Tools.html

Basics_Windows_and_Editors.html

Before you begin: checklist

Before you begin: checklist

Before you begin: checklist

Blend preset brush settings

bone lattice flexor

bone sculpt flexor

Boolean operation

Break connections between attributes

broadcast quality

Brownian texture

Bullet-proof scripting

Calling MEL from AppleScript and vice-versa

Calling procedures

Cameras preferences

Can I specify a dynamic matrix?

Center the view on selected or all objects

Change an object’s wireframe color

Change attribute values in the Attribute Editor or Channel Box

Change one type of selection to another

Change the brush outline color

Change the Brush Type

Change the display of shelves

Change the length (scale) of normals in the display

Change the look and smoothness of the selected objects

Change the name of one or more objects

Change the order of nodes

Change the panel layout

Change the panel lighting

Change the pivot point

Change the visual layout of nodes in the Hypergraph

Change user interface colors

Change_and_resize_panels.html

Change_history.html

Change_the_display_of_nodes_and_attributes.html

Change_the_display_of_objects.html

Changing the user script locations with MEL

Channel Control

character mapper

character partition

character setup

Character_setup.html

Checking where a procedure comes from

Clear the canvas

cluster deformer

Commands to pick curve on surface

common end point

Common error messages

Common expression errors

Common problems

Component Editor

Component Editor

component video

composite video

compound attribute

comprehensive solver

concave polygon

Confirming Maya startup

Connect attributes with an expression

Connect input and output attributes

Connection Editor

constrained object

construction history

Construction history

construction plane

Construction planes

Contacting Support Services

contour rendering

Control the display of attributes in the Channel Box

control vertex (CV)

Control what camera is shown in a view

Control which objects or attribute types appear in an editor

Controlling_the_flow_of_a_script.html

Conversion_functions.html

Convert Paint Effects to curves

Convert Paint Effects to NURBS

Convert Paint Effects to polygons

coordinate system

Copies vs. instances

Create > Adobe Illustrator Object

Create > Annotation

Create > Arc Tools > Three Point Circular Arc, Two Point Circular Arc

Create > Construction Plane

Create > CV Curve Tool

Create > Empty Group

Create > EP Curve Tool

Create > Locator

Create > Measure Tools > Distance Tool, Parameter Tool, Arc Length Tool

Create > NURBS Primitives

Create > Pencil Curve Tool

Create > Polygon Primitives

Create > Sets > Quick Select Set

Create > Sets > Set, Partition

Create a custom heads-up display readout

Create a custom panel layout

Create a Paint Effects modifier

Create a window from the contents of a panel (tear off)

Create Adobe Illustrator Object limitations

Create an Artisan tool shelf

Create and edit sets

Create animated textures

Create geometric primitives

Create new brush presets

Create new images

Create or edit a marking menu

Create or edit a script node

Create seamless repeating textures

Create textures from painted 3D objects

Create, edit, or delete custom attributes

Create, open, or save a scene file

Create, rename, rearrange, or delete a shelf

Create_and_edit_models.html

Creating animation expressions

Creating_interfaces.html

creation expression

Creation expression execution

current character set

Current limitations

curvature modulation

curve attractor

Curve_functions.html

curve-on-surface

Custom menu sets

Customize the hotbox

Customize_hotkeys.html

Customize_how_Maya_works.html

Customize_marking_menus_and_the_hotbox.html

Customize_menu_sets.html

Customize_shelves.html

Customize_the_look_and_feel_of_the_interface.html

Cut, Copy, and Paste

CV

cylindrical projection

Data type conversions

Data types of attributes

Debugging_optimizing_and_troubleshooting.html

Define template brush settings

Defining procedures

deformable object

deformation chain

deformation order

Delete an animation expression

Deleting UI elements

Delimiters and white space

Dependency graph

dependency graph (DG)

depth constraint

Differences between expression and MEL syntax

digital disk recorder

directional light

directional point emitter

Directly modify the settings files

Disconnect an attribute

displacement map

displacement material

displacement to polygons

Display > Animation

Display > Heads Up Display

Display > Hide, Show

Display > NURBS

Display > Object Display

Display > Paint Effects Mesh Display

Display > Polygons

Display > Rendering

Display > Stroke Display Quality

Display > Subdiv Surfaces

Display > Transform Display

Display > UI Elements

Display > Wireframe Color

Display attribute and variable contents

Display Layer editor

Display preferences

Display RGB, luminance, or alpha channels

Display the Paint Effects canvas

distance constraint

Documentation.html

double transformation effect

dynamic attribute

Dynamics limitations

Dynamics preferences

Dynamics Time Playback

Each attribute can only have one driver

Edit > Delete All by Type

Edit > Delete by Type > Channels, Static Channels, Non-particle Expressions

Edit > Delete by Type > History

Edit > Deselect

Edit > Duplicate

Edit > Duplicate Special

Edit > Duplicate with Transform

Edit > Invert Selection

Edit > Lasso Select

Edit > Level of Detail

Edit > Paint Selection

Edit > Quick Select Sets

Edit > Recent Commands

Edit > Select All

Edit > Select All by Type

Edit > Select Hierarchy

Edit > Undo, Redo, Repeat

Edit > Unparent

Edit all objects on a layer at once

Edit an animation expression with a text editor

Edit completed commands (construction history)

Edit component numeric values directly

Edit reference paths in the Reference Editor

Edit text in an animation expression

Edit the contents of a shelf

Edit the MEL script associated with a shelf item

Edit_objects.html

environment fog

environment map

environment variable

Erase paint from the canvas

Error message format

ethernet address

Examining a licensing log file

Example_scripts.html

Executing MEL commands in an expression

Executing MEL commands in an expression can have unintended side effects

Executing system commands

Explicit and implicit typing

Exponential_functions.html

Export objects as a referenced file

Export objects to a new file

Expression editor

Expressions, operators and statements

FBIK (full-body IK)

FFD (free-form deformation)

field rendering

File > Create Reference

File > Export All, Export Selection

File > New Scene

File > Open Scene

File > Optimize Scene Size

File > Project > Edit Current

File > Project > New

File > Project > Set

File > Recent Files

File > Recent Projects

File > Reference Editor

File > Save Preferences

File > Save Scene

File > Save Scene As

File > View Image

File > View Sequence

File formats limitations

File reference and node structure

file referencing

File Referencing

File referencing limitations

File referencing tips

File referencing workflows

File_formats.html

File_management.html

File_referencingaan.html

Files/Projects preferences

Find an animation expression you created previously

Finding licensing problems with diagnostic tools

Finding Unshaded Objects

FK (forward kinematics)

Flip Tube Direction

floating license

Flood the surface

Fluid Effects limitations

free-form geometry

Fresnel reflection

Full body IK limitations

fur description

fur render settings

fur shading effects

gamma correction

General animation limitations

General attributes

General character setup limitations

General deformer limitations

General Fur limitations

General Maya limitations & workarounds

General nCloth limitations

General polygon and games limitations

General rendering limitations

General scene limitations

General UI limitations

General_commands.html

geometry constraint

Get and change the size of an array

Get help on a MEL command

Get the most out of Maya

Getting and setting attributes

Getting and setting multi-value attributes

Global and local variables

Glossarybua.html

Graph Editor limitations

Graphics requirements for Maya

Group objects together

Grow, shrink, or change the selected region of CVs or polygon components

Hair limitations

Handling errors with catch and catchQuiet

hardware render

Hardware rendering limitations

Hardware shading limitations

Help preferences

hidden attribute

Hide and show strokes and curves

high-quality interactive shading

hinge rigid body constraint

Hotbox Controls > Hotbox Style

How Artisan brush tools work

How can I change an integer to a string?

How can I change the order of extra attributes in the Channel Box?

How can I count polygons?

How can I create a closestPointOnSurface node?

How can I export selected data to an already opened file?

How can I find out what variables have been declared?

How can I get an object’s pivot point in world space?

How can I get the name of a (selected) shape node?

How can I get the names of selected objects?

How can I make a list of what objects are connected to what shading groups?

How can I render from within a script?

How can I select a set of particles?

How can I stop a MEL script that is running?

How do I execute a statement created at runtime?

How do I export sets from a Maya file?

How do I get and set specific UV values on a polygon?

How do I get or set the position along the timeline using MEL?

How do I kill individual particles?

How do I list all global variables?

How do I set the batch render directory in MEL?

How Maya keeps track of edits to file references

How often an expression executes

How the 3D Paint Tool works

How the Paint Effects Tool works

How to randomize keyframes?

Hypergraph limitations

Hypergraph overview

Hypergraph tips

Hypergraphe.html

If the licensing is not successful

if...else if...else

IGES import and export

IK (inverse kinematics)

IK spline curve

image-based lighting (IBL)

Important differences between MEL and Python

Improve performance, quality, or interactivity

industrial quality

influence object

Initialization is different from assignment

Inline numeric calculation in multiple cells

input connection

Install the Maya Web browser plug-in

Installation and Licensing

Installation directory (Linux)

Installation directory (Windows)

Installing a license

Installing license server software

Installing Maya (Linux)

Installing Maya (Mac OS X)

Installing Maya (Windows)

Installing Maya 8.5 alongside previous versions

Installing Maya 8.5 alongside previous versions of Maya

Installing the Maya Shader Library

Installing_license_server_software.html

Installing_Maya_for_Linux.html

Installing_Maya_for_Mac_OS_X.html

Installing_Maya_for_Windows.html

Installing_mental_ray_for_Maya_satellite.html

Installing_the_Shader_Library.html

Integer and floating point numbers

Interface preferences

Interface_overview.html

intersection line

Introduction to array functions

Introduction to conversion functions

Introduction to curve functions

Introduction to exponential functions

Introduction to general commands

Introduction to limit functions

Introduction to random number functions

Introduction to trigonometric functions

Introduction to vector functions

Introduction.html

Introduction_to_release_notes.html

invisible object

IO_and_interaction.html

Issues at startup

Japanese Maya Overview

Japanese user interface

jiggle deformer

joint chain plane

joint chain plane indicator

joint cluster flexor

joint lattice flexor

joint sculpt flexor

Keep a collection of sets from having overlapping membership

Keyframe brush and stroke attributes

Kinematics preferences

lattice deformer

Layer painted textures

Learning from Maya’s own script files

Level of Detail group node

Licensing of satellite rendering

Licensing_Maya.html

light fog (illuminated fog)

Limit_functions.html

Limitations when rendering Fur in mental ray for Maya

Limitations when rendering Fur in the Maya Software renderer

Limiting the use of Maya Unlimited product licenses

lineModifier node

List of particle attributes

List, copy, or remove reference edits

Load or unload Maya plug-ins

Load the default shelves

Local array collection

Lock a manipulator to the current selection

Lock the value of an attribute

Locking a file reference

Loop brush animations

Make a shelf button for a script

Make an attribute paintable

Make an object unselectable (template)

Make tubes react to forces

Manage custom menu sets

Managing complex scenes

Managing your files

Manipulating files

Manipulators preferences

Map file textures to color and opacity

Marking Menus editor

Maya commands limitations

Maya for Linux limitations

Maya for Mac OS X limitations

Maya for Windows limitations

Maya Help limitations

Maya Help overview

Maya on 64-bit systems

Maya on 64-bit systems

Maya on Intel Mac OS X

Maya Paint Effects

Maya Software rendering limitations

Maya Terminal window provided with Maya

Maya Web browser plug-in

Maya_commands.html

Maya_Fluid_Effects.html

Maya_nCloth.html

Maya_Paint_Effectsabl.html

Mayas_Interface.html

Mayas_interfacec.html

MayaToAlias and StudioImport limitations

Measure the distance between two points

MEL and Expressions

MEL for programmers

MEL script nodes

MEL_debugging_features.html

MEL_Windows_and_Editors.html

mental ray for Maya rendering limitations

Menus and menu sets

Miscellaneous translators

Miscellaneous_and_translators.html

Modeling preferences

Modify > Add Attribute

Modify > Center Pivot

Modify > Convert > NURBS to Polygons

Modify > Convert > NURBS to Subdiv, Polygons to Subdiv

Modify > Convert > Paint Effects to Curves

Modify > Convert > Paint Effects to NURBS

Modify > Convert > Paint Effects to Polygons

Modify > Convert > Subdiv to NURBS

Modify > Convert > Subdiv to Polygons

Modify > Convert > Texture to Geometry

Modify > Delete Attribute

Modify > Edit Attribute

Modify > Evaluate Nodes

Modify > Make Live

Modify > Paint Attributes Tool

Modify > Paint Scripts Tool

Modify > Prefix Hierarchy Names

Modify > Reset Transformations, Freeze Transformations

Modify > Search and Replace Names

Modify > Snap Align Objects > Align Objects

Modify > Snap Align Objects > Align Tool

Modify > Snap Align Objects > Point to Point, 2 Points to 2 Points, 3 Points to 3 Points

Modify > Snap Align Objects > Snap Together Tool

Modify > Transformation Tools > Default Object Manipulator

Modify > Transformation Tools > Move Normal Tool

Modify > Transformation Tools > Move Tool, Rotate Tool, Scale Tool, Show Manipulator Tool

Modify > Transformation Tools > Proportional Modification Tool

Modify > Transformation Tools > Soft Modification Tool

Modify > Transformation Tools > Universal Manipulator

Modify brush settings for existing strokes

Modify existing strokes

Modify stroke display quality

Modify textures applied to surfaces

Modify tube behavior using control curves

Modifying a file reference

Modules preferences

motion history dependence

Move, rotate or scale components proportionally

Move, rotate, or scale components with reflection

Move, rotate, or scale objects and components

Move_and_rotate_the_camera.html

nail rigid body constraint

Naming variables

node-locked license

Nodes and attributes

Nodes_and_attributes.html

nonlinear deformer

nonmanifold topology

non-planar polygon

normal constraint

numeric render type

NURBS modeling limitations

NURBS preferences

NURBS_modeling.html

Obj limitations

Objects and components

occlusion culling

Online Product Activation (OPA)

Open multiple Attribute Editors

Open recently saved files

OpenFlight limitations

Operator precedence

optical FX node

Optimize expressions

Optimize scene size

Optimize scripts

Optimizing Paint Effects Mesh quality

Optimizing_script_and_expression_speed.html

Organize files into projects

Organize nodes into logical groupings

Organize objects on display layers

Organize_objects.html

Organizing objects

orient constraint

orthographic projection

output connection

outside points transform

Overview of installing Maya for Linux

Overview of installing Maya for Mac OS X

Overview of installing Maya for Windows

Overview of MEL script painting

Overview of mental ray (satellite)

Overview_of_installation_and_licensing.html

Paint attributes

Paint attributes not seen in hardware texturing

Paint attributes not shown in the Texture list

Paint Effects > Apply Settings to Last Stroke

Paint Effects > Apply Settings to Selected Strokes

Paint Effects > Auto Paint > Paint Grid

Paint Effects > Auto Paint > Paint Random

Paint Effects > Brush Animation > Bake Spring Animation

Paint Effects > Brush Animation > Loop Brush Animation

Paint Effects > Brush Animation > Make Brush Spring

Paint Effects > Create Modifier

Paint Effects > Curve Utilities > Attach Brush to Curves

Paint Effects > Curve Utilities > Make Pressure Curve

Paint Effects > Curve Utilities > Set Stroke Control Curves

Paint Effects > Curve Utilities > Simplify Stroke Path Curves

Paint Effects > Flip Tube Direction

Paint Effects > Get Brush

Paint Effects > Get Settings from Selected Stroke

Paint Effects > Make Paintable

Paint Effects > Paint Effects Globals

Paint Effects > Paint Effects Mesh Quality

Paint Effects > Paint Effects Tool

Paint Effects > Paint on Paintable Objects

Paint Effects > Paint on View Plane

Paint Effects > Preset Blending

Paint Effects > Remove Brush Sharing

Paint Effects > Reset Template Brush

Paint Effects > Save Brush Preset

Paint Effects > Select Brush/Stroke Names Containing

Paint Effects > Share One Brush

Paint Effects > Template Brush Settings

Paint Effects and 3D Paint

Paint Effects and 3D Paint Tool Reference