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# 1 14-12-2002 , 01:18 AM

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I'm always curious to see how people work in 3D apps. Max's interface is so abhorent that I've pretty much stripped it apart and customized it to something unrecognizable. With Maya, no need to do that. All I really do is remap hotkeys and create custom shelves.

Here's the current state of my Maya workspace:

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Please share yours if you'd like.

Danny Ngan
Animator | Amaze Entertainment
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# 2 14-12-2002 , 01:40 AM

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I like to have as much screen space as possible but still have all the stuff for the particular job i'm doing at hand. I use hotkeys, the hot box and custom shelves (and some of the built in too) all the time. I usually have the status line, main menus, the tool box and the help line hidden...

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# 3 14-12-2002 , 03:44 AM

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heres mine, rather small res compared to urs user added image

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My Website: www.Glass-Prison.com

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# 4 14-12-2002 , 10:16 AM

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I removed my toolbox, as the layouts are accessible from via the spacebar! user added image

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# 5 14-12-2002 , 03:29 PM

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Mine =) All in 1 self hahahah=)

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination, knowledge is limited, imagination encircles the world. (Albert Einstein)

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# 6 14-12-2002 , 05:59 PM

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Kurt: same here! having shelf tabs turned on takes up too much space on 1280x1024 for me so i had to rationalise user added image

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# 7 14-12-2002 , 06:02 PM

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I have to learn how to install plugings better!!!!!!!!! By the looks of it eveyone uses them.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination, knowledge is limited, imagination encircles the world. (Albert Einstein)

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# 8 14-12-2002 , 06:18 PM

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hey kal, thats one cool colour scheme user added image

where did ya get it from?

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# 9 14-12-2002 , 07:28 PM

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No special plugins here, mostly because my main workstation is a Mac. I do, however, use RenderWare on my PC, but that's purely a job thing. Heavy usage of mel scripts on both platforms though.

And I really need to use shelf tabs to keep my shelf buttons organized. I haven't gotten around to cleaning out the default tabs from 4.5 (I could care less about having Dynamics and Deformation tabs), but I'm just too damn lazy to do it. user added image

Danny Ngan
Animator | Amaze Entertainment
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