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# 10 12-04-2010 , 10:11 PM
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Originally posted by kittykate
Thank you soo much. The link you gave me worked. You've been an excellent help. I was about to tear my hair out.

No problem but next time I suggest a little pro-active googling or searching DT's forums if working on one of their product tuts. Just like you wouldn't go to their forums and ask them for help on one of Simplymaya's tutorials. It's just bad form. That being said, there's a good community of helpful folks here so if you have any Maya questions have at it.

Btw, you said you didn't have access to DT's forums but the answers were all in their forums so how did that work out for ya? user added image

Originally posted by ctbram
I am not sure but the ` character you are using looks fine. It is the key to the left of the 1 key on a standard US keyboard. The ` character instructs the interpreter to execute the command contained between the ` characters.

My bad if I was wrong about that...I thought that was supposed to be a single prime/single quote/apostrophe. Didn't know the back quote/grave was actually used.

Originally posted by ctbram
If you look at what you have posted you have a different kind of " symbol at either end of the double quoted items. They have a tilt to them. I can't even find those quote symbols on my keyboard?

That's what threw me off. Those are smart quotes. Sometimes software automatically converts quotes into smart quotes...forums, CMS, etc. so I figured she cut it from something that made a mistake. Since I hadn't actually seen the video she's referencing I couldn't really tell if that was the intent or not. Smart quotes are the proper formatting for actual quotes...the way a keyboard typically types them is as prime and double prime marks which are what should be used for measurement (ala 6'5"), not for real quotes and apostrophes.


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