Maya adapted from slides by Hyuck Rea Rho

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Maya adapted from slides by Hyuck Rea Rho
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What is it?

• Animation making tool
• 3D rendering tool
• Around 280 for school work
• 10 License, Limited function
• (http//www.studica.com/products/search.cfm?search
  _strmaya)

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Why using Maya?

• Maya is everywhere, especially in game / film /
  animation.
• Maya expert Artist Computer Programmer.

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Example

• Load of the Rings
• (http//blog.naver.com/ssamddul?RedirectLoglogNo
  20024623957)
• Basic Animation
• (http//www.chungcg.com/chung_gal.asp)

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Introduction to Alias

• Alias Research, 1983.
• Wavefront Technologies, 1984.
• AliasWavefront under SGI, 1995.
• Alias, 2003.
• Autodesk, 2006.

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Introduction to Maya

• Released in 1998.
• Rumor has it that
• Implemented by over 200 PhDs.
• Too big s.t. no one knows it well.
• Alias is going bigger.

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Lets Use Maya

• Basic transformation.
• Selection by object, component.
• Polygonal modeling.
• Mirror.

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Maya Internal
Architecture
MEL Script Editor
Maya User Interface
MEL Interpreter
Maya Programmers API C/C
Dependency Graph
Render Engine
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3D Rendering Pipeline

• Static model
• Shading
• Texture
• Animation
• Rendering

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3D Rendering Pipeline

• Static model
• Shading
• Texture
• Animation
• Rendering

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3D Rendering Pipeline

• Static model
• Shading
• Texture
• Animation
• Rendering

See test.avi
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Animation

• Two way to do this

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Pipeline Data
Model
Viewpoint of data
Textured Model
Animated Model

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Pipeline Operators
Polygon Manipulator
Viewpoint of operators
Shader
Animation Curve

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Structure in Maya

• Node Structure
• Directed Acyclic Graph
• Dependency Graph

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Node Hierarchy
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Function Sets in Diagram
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Maya Programming

• 2 choices for Maya programming
• Maya Embedded Language (MEL)
• C API
• Not exclusive to each other.
• Not a set-relationship.

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Introduction to MEL

• Familiar C-style grammar.
• GUI maker.
• All you do is through MEL.
• Maya DLLs MEL.

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Bad Things

• Expensive ( 6999 for full function)
• Need At least 6 Month training

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Nice Place to learn

• http//www.tutorialfind.com/tutorials/3dsoftware/m
  aya/

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Reference

• Maya API White Paper
• Book
• David Gould. Complete Maya Programming,
  Morgan-Kaufmann Publishers
• 3D User Magazine
• Web
• http//www.aliaswavefront.com/
• http//www.highend3d.com/
• http//www.learning-maya.com/