Template Display & Components in Maya

Template Display

1. When do you use template display?

 When your scene becomes complex.

2. What does templating the display allow you to do?

Let's you can better see all the pieces of the project & work with them.

 

3. How does the object change when you template the display?

The objects change to wire frame versions of themselves & change color.

4. How does the template display help you?

By preventing you from changing or modifying something accidentally.

5. How do you change the display of objects to template mode?

In the Side view, with the Selection Mask set to Hierarchy, select all the objects in the scene. Then from the main menu select Display, the Object Display, then TRemplate & the selected objects get Templated.

6. How do you untemplate a templated object?

 Select all the object in the scene go to the main menu, then Display, then Object Display, then choose Untemplate & the objects selected get untemplated.

7. How did you work with template display in the last lesson?

By templating certain items so we won't mess them up by accident.

Components

1. What is a component?

Part of an object such as a polygon or NURBS in Maya. 

2. Give three examples of a component. 

The top of a cylinder, part of a sphere, a side of a cube.

 

3. What does a component allow you to do in Maya?

It allows you to edit part of an object, leaving the rest of the object the same.

4. What are the step to select a component of an object?

Set the Selection Mode to Component Mode, then right-click on the wireframe of an object,

5. How did you work with components in the last lesson?

By editing single parts of objects to be different sizes.