Maya to Blender tips: Change Blender into Maya... Well, the look and feel anyway.

FredericCervini2022-09-23

Blender#Maya#CGI#Howto#tips#short cut keys#color scheme#look and feel

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💫 Short Summary

The video demonstrates how to customize Blender preferences to match Maya, improving efficiency and comfort. It covers adjusting color schemes, key maps, industry compatibility, and optimizing workflow with shortcut keys. Setting preferences in Blender and saving them as the startup file ensures consistency in layout and settings. Viewers are encouraged to like, subscribe, and provide motivation for more content creation. The importance of deleting the default cube and selecting preferred rendering engines is also highlighted. Overall, the video aims to help users transition smoothly from Maya to Blender.

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📊 Transcript

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Customizing Blender preferences to match Maya layout and shortcut keys.

00:58

Adjusting color schemes and key maps can help users work more efficiently and comfortably within Blender.

Setting industry compatibility to align Blender with other 3D programs like Maya.

Optimizing workflow with shortcut keys for editing modes.

Importance of deleting the default cube and selecting preferred rendering engines for a smoother experience.

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Setting preferences in Blender and saving them as the startup file.

04:02

Saving settings ensures that Blender opens with the customized preferences next time it is launched.

Customizing Blender to resemble Maya is also discussed.

Viewers are encouraged to like, subscribe, and provide motivation for more content creation.

The segment ends with a farewell and thanks to the audience.

00:00foreign

00:00[Music]

00:13ER tip video and this one will all be

00:16about preferences

00:18now the first time you open blender this

00:21will probably be the look and feel you

00:23get and also the shortcut keys will be

00:25very unfamiliar especially if you're

00:27using my app before when you're using

00:30Maya for several years you got the

00:32shortcut keys in your fingers it can be

00:34annoying or be quite a steep learning

00:36curve to switch over to the blender

00:38shortcut keys but there's an easy way to

00:41get in there and use the keys that

00:43you're actually used to and we can do

00:45this by going to edit

00:48preferences and then you're going to see

00:50a list of preferences we can change

00:53first of all we like to see the color

00:54scheme of Maya which I like anyway so we

00:58go to teams and then we have a lot of

01:00presets obviously we can set every

01:02individual setting here but in the

01:04presets we're gonna do a whole set of

01:07presets for all these things and luckily

01:11there's a Maya preset so if we click

01:13this there you go we got immediately the

01:16Maya color scheme which is a little bit

01:18more familiar for example when you

01:20select something it's going to be a

01:21green outline instead of an Amber one

01:23and that is already a little bit easier

01:26to understand

01:28okay another thing we can set is the key

01:30map this one is also set to blender

01:33where we click on the preferences we can

01:35see blender we can use blender 2.7x and

01:39the industry compatible now the industry

01:41compatible is

01:43exactly what it says it is what most 3D

01:46programs use and blender is completely

01:48different so when we can set it to

01:50Industry compatible it's going to look a

01:52little bit more the way Maya works now

01:55we have for example this Cube selected

01:58and when we press W for example we can

02:01move it if we press e we can rotate it

02:04if we press R we can scale it and this

02:06is exactly the way Maya works the same

02:10thing for object mode and edit mode if

02:12we press three we're gonna be in edit

02:15mode for faces for press 2 is for edges

02:19and if we press one it's for vertices

02:21and if we press four it's gonna be go

02:23back to object mode these are all small

02:26things that makes your workflow way a

02:29bit quicker when you're used to those

02:31shortcut keys in Maya

02:34and then there's a couple of other

02:36things we can set before we actually

02:38save this preference for example the

02:40default cube is something that always

02:42get loaded and there's a little gag

02:43around the internet that every time you

02:47see a tutorial they delete the default

02:49Cube I find it easier to just get rid of

02:52it and so whenever we start a blender

02:54it's not there anymore so let's delete

02:56it now and then one of the things that I

02:59also always like to set is that the

03:01render engine is by default EV but I

03:05prefer to render in Cycles so I set

03:08Cycles and then we can go to file

03:12defaults and save the startup file once

03:15we do that every setting we have set

03:18will be saved out and the next time we

03:21start a blender it will exactly look the

03:23way it is right now if I close this file

03:27and don't save anything I open blender

03:29up again

03:31you're gonna see it's gonna look exactly

03:33the way I want it and my preference is

03:36going to be exactly cycles and I don't

03:39have the default Cube anymore

03:41okay so that's it for the preferences

03:43and the way you can make blender look a

03:46little bit more like Maya and get going

03:48how do you say that in English with your

03:51feet hitting the ground running or

03:52something like that well there you go if

03:54you like this kind of content please

03:56give it a thumbs up and subscribe that

03:59will get me motivated to make more of

04:02these videos well that's it for this

04:04video I'll see you the next time bye

04:09thank you

04:13[Music]

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