Using Vertexes & Edges in Maya

Video Transcript

"Hey everybody! My name is Matt and I'm speaking to you on behalf of Expert Village. If you hit the number 5 at the top of you keyboard, that's going to turn on shading. It makes it a lot easier to visualize your objects than with wire frame on. If you hit 4, that'll take you back wire frame. Like I said, with 5, it makes your object so it’ll now see through and it's a little easier to figure out what's going on. If you select your object and hold down your right mouse button, it's going to bring up this dialogue. You can select different parts of your object. I'm going to select the vertex. What this does is it makes it so your vertexes or the points on your object are selectable. You can go ahead and select. I'm going to select a vertex. If I hit W, we can use all the transformations we learned about earlier on the vertexes. You can click and drag a vertex around. We can select multiple vertexes and you can also hit E to rotate, like we said earlier, or hit R and we can scale them as well. If you click and hold your right mouse button again, you can select the edge. You can select the edges of your object and that works a little bit differently. You can do all the same things as we were doing with our vertexes. If you right click and hold and select object mode, that's going to take you back to your object mode so that you can select your entire object and apply transformations like we were doing earlier. "