Having been requested to do a project that would be best suited to do in Maya because of some of the features Maya provides by default, namely fluids, I have been using Maya several weeks for the first time in a really long while.
I thought I would share, especially from a Softimage perspective, apparently Maya has some hidden hotkeys and some hidden commands associated to existing hotkeys that did not exist in the past. 1. Z key executes Undo. a. Its supposed to be Ctrl-Z, not Z, but apparently Z by itself does the same thing b. As a former Softimage user, prone to hitting the Z key very often, I've been hitting this key a lot this week. c. This command is documented, at least its searchable in the hot key editor. d. The command is redundant and inconsistent and makes it to easy to undo something. e. It has the potential to bite you by undoing your work without your knowledge. 2. Ctrl-V executes a scene read, of the currently saved scene into the existing scene a. This happens if you are in the outliner b. Its basically the equivalent of import scene c. It uses the current scene name as the import d. If the scene is previously saved it will add a copy of the scene into the existing scene e. I was in outliner, renaming groups for a massively large scene, in excess of 40000 objects, I forgot to double click an item in the outliner to initiate the rename of the object name, now it is reading another 40,000+ objects into my scene. It will be tomorrow before I can salvage it, if at all... f. This command is undocumented, the hot key editor provides no context for this behavior related to the outliner. 3. This occurs in Maya 2017. I am sure there are other insanities like this lurking. Be warned.... Joey
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