Outline

What IS vertex painting?

Initial VC mode

Color picker

Flood

 

Handy Stuff

snap to face centers!

Keyboard Shortcuts

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