yep, visiting the real world won't be a problem even though Maya IS addicting, I still have baseball, homework, B&G club, chores, all that other crap.
Anyway, I have a question: when I make a new primitive, like a cube or a sphere or something, it comes in wireframe mode.. How do I change it to a shaded mode like in most of the tuts and images I see?
Also, maya sometimes goes back to that "mode" where everything I try to do in it is slow as hell, and then it [usually] goes back to normal after 5 or 10 minutes. anyone have a solution to that?
it's like that again right now and I just got a "do you want to end this nonresponsive program now" thing.

Thanks