What IS vertex painting?
Initial VC mode
Color picker
Flood
snap to face centers!
obviously this won’t cover all the shortcuts you need in Maya. Going to assume you’re good with copy/paste/duplicate/etc
Task | Shortcut | Notes |
toggle isolate select | shift+e | |
extrude | cmd+e | |
merge selected to center | ||
merge based on distance | ||
combine objects | shift+c | |
separate objects | shift+s | |
detach component | ||
vertex paint mode | ||
delete history | ||
freeze transformations | shift+f | |
center pivot | cmd+shift+c | |
toggle grid | shift+g | |
toggle wireframe on shaded | shift+w | |
duplicate special | cmd+d | I use duplicate special rather than the standard duplicate because I like to set it to duplicate input graphs. This way if I duplicate a cube, I still have the option to set its scale/subdivisions/etc |
change background color | alt+b | |
use the transform tool!
shift
cmd
alt
shift+cmd