Polyman

This is something I noticed while doing the polyman tutorial for the homework:

The tutorial is done using an older version of maya and some of the menu names are different. The big ones that I noticed so far have to do with modeling. In the top left of the maya screen, under "File", there is a drop down box that controls your menu sets. In the tutorial, when doing a boolean operation, you will be instructed to make sure you have the modeling menu set selected. In Maya 8.5, there is no modeling menu set. To do the polygon boolean operation, you need to select the "Polygons" menu set and look under the "Mesh" menu. Also, if he asks you to go to the "Edit Polygons" menu, you need to go to "Edit Mesh" instead.

As a final FYI, the menus and shortcuts for working with NURBS are in the Surfaces menu set and the Surfaces shortcut tab.

-Dave Mathews