Maya Flashcards
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In Maya, what is the purpose of the Outliner panel?
Answer: Show the hierarchical scene structure of all nodes and objects
The Outliner displays all scene nodes in a hierarchical tree, allowing selection, grouping, parenting, and visibility management.
Which Maya tool creates a flexible control rig with forward and inverse kinematics for character limbs?
Answer: Joint Tool + IK Handle
The Joint Tool creates the skeleton and IK Handles apply inverse kinematics, together forming the foundation of a character rig.
In Maya, what does MASH provide for motion graphics work?
Answer: A procedural node network for cloning and distributing objects with effects
MASH is a motion graphics toolkit that procedurally distributes and animates objects using a network of nodes with effectors.
Which Maya simulation system handles secondary motion for hair and clothing dynamics?
Answer: nDynamics (nHair / nCloth)
nDynamics includes nHair and nCloth solvers for simulating hair, fur, and fabric with collision and wind effects.
In Maya, what is XGen primarily used for?
Answer: Generating and grooming hair, fur, and instanced vegetation on surfaces
XGen is Maya's procedural system for generating and grooming hair, fur, feathers, and scattered instanced geometry on surfaces.
What Maya tool is used to bake complex node-based shading networks into texture maps?
Answer: Transfer Maps
Transfer Maps bakes lighting, normals, ambient occlusion, and other shading data from a high-res source mesh to a target mesh's UV texture maps.