What is the name of Maya's material editor?
Shader Editor
Vipershade
Material Component Editor
Material Editor
Hypershade
What tool allows you to blend animation clips
Attribute Editor
Hypergraph
Graph Editor
Trax Editor
what is the recommended folder for saving .ma or .mb files in maya?
file export
file save as
scene folder
all of the above
image folder
To finish create a new polygon, you can press:
Double click the last point you placed
'Enter' key
'Delete' key
To extrude edges or faces along a path curve, you can use:
With the help of the wrap deformer
Edit mesh >
extrude > options
Edit mesh > project curve on mesh > options
A collection of faces, vertices, and edges form...what?
Picture
Mesh
Face
FK stands for:
Further Kronor
Forward Kronor
Further Kinetics
Forward
Kinematics
What file formats does maya scenes save as?
.ma .mb
.ba .ama
.atu .mb
.am .mya
What does the Extrude tool do?
Finishes the project for you
Pushes out or in
selected component
Nothing
Connects two selected faces
To extend the functionality, Maya provides a scripting language:
JavaScript
Boo Script
C#
MEL or Python
What does MEL stand for?
Maya Extreme Logo
Maya Embedded
Language
Maya Error Language
Maya Error Loop
What Hotkey allows you to jump between viewports
spacebar
shift
"V"
ctrl/cmd
What is the script language that Maya utilizes?
JSON
GOB
MEL and Python
MAL Script
Which option allows you to render shadows?
Bump Mapping
Incandescence
Translucence
Raytrace
What is the best way to remove unwanted vertices and edges?
Nothing can be done
Hide them
Delete
Edge/Vertex
Hit the delete key
Which of these can you use to edit an animation?
Attribute Spread Sheet
Graph Editor
Hypergraph
Connection Editor
What is the name of the tool used to add additional edge loops to selected geometry?
Insert Edge Loop
Tool
Bridge
Offset Edge Loop Tool
Slide Edge Tool
Merge Edge Tool
When finished modeling, what needs to be done, before applying custom textures?
Nothing
Lay out the UVs
Sing a song
Sud-divide the object
What are the keyboard shortcuts for Translate, Rotate and Scale?
G, Shift+Alt, Right Mouse Button
W, E, R
G, R, T
T, R, S
IK stands for:
Inverse
Kinematics
Inverse Kronor
Introverted Kinetics
Introverted Kronor
The attributes of the default Lambert shader in Maya can be modified
True
False
When selecting a Render engine, if Mental Ray is not listed as available where would you go to enable it?
Node Editor
Panel Editor
Hypergraph
Component Editor
Plug-in Manager
If faces are appearing black in the viewport, one sided lighting is on, and there is no black material applied to geometry, what is the solution?
Delete all work and start over
Smooth the object
Reverse the
normals
Reverse the edges
what is the hotkey, to view object in wireframe mode?
5
4
6
7
What does Maya's classic 4-panel layout consist of?
Perspective View (Camera), View from Light Shape,
Render View, Hypershade
Perspective View (Camera), View from Render Camera,
Top View, Side View
Perspective View
(Camera), Top View, Front View, Side View
Perspective View (Camera), Curve Editor, Hypershade,
Outliner
Perspective View (Camera), Hardware texture, Side
View, Render View
What hot-key focuses your active view on a selected object?
TAB
Shift + F
F
Ctrl + F
Alt + F
Which camera viewport is not an orthographic viewport?
Perspective
Top
Side
Back
Front
When ready to render, where in the Rendering menu set is the "batch render" located?
Render
Lighting/Shading
Assets
File
What is the name of the window that allows you to view a list of every item in your scene?
Show All
History
Rendering
Outliner
Hypershade
Which one of these is not a scripting language you can use in Maya:
Python
Ruby
Mel
What is the hotkey to view model in smooth mode?
3
5
4
6
What is a line that connects two vertices on polygonal mesh?
Line
Mesh
Curve
Edge
Face
Shortcut to decrease or increase the size of the Pivot Manipulator ?
In the Maya preferences
Double click the move tool
The ‘+’ or ‘-’
key
Right click in the pivot it self
How do you convert a procedural texture or shading network into a file texture?
In the edit menu
of the hypershade
In the outliner
In the render setting
Which shortcut repeats your last action?
M
T
N
R
G
How many edges can the Create Polygon Tool support?
Unlimited
20
4
100
What is a single point in 3D space, defined by X axis, Y axis, and Z axis?
UV
Face
Vertex
Edge
What material channel does a specular map plug into?
Color
Eccentricity
Specular Color
Translucence
Cosine Power
What is a geometric entity that fills the gap between edges?
NURBS
Face
UV
Material
What is the default Maya render engine?
Maya Software
Maya Hardware 2.0
Maya Hardware
Mental Ray
Maya Vector
Which is NOT a UV projection Method?
Planar Mapping
Volume Mapping
Automatic Mapping
Cylindrical Mapping
Spherical Mapping
What does NURBS stand for?
Never Us Resizing Basic Speed
Non-Unified Robust Basis Spline
Non-Uniform
Rational Basis Spline
Non-Uniform Rational Basic School
Which material channel enables an object to appear to have detailed geometry without modeling it?
Diffuse
Specular
Translucence
Bump Mapping
What is the fastest method to create a doughnut?
Torus
Create polygon tool
Cylinder
Cube
What is the name of Maya's unique, stroke based geometry creation system?
Paint Effects
Optical Flow
Fluid Effects
GrowFX
Maya L-System
As from Maya 2014, how would you open a newer version file into a previous version of maya ?
Its not possible to open a newer version file in
older version.
Check
"ignore version" preference
What type of texture map is a VDM?
Voxel direction map
Vertex data map
Value depth map
Vector
displacement map
What deformer lets you change the shape of an object into other shapes?
Blend Shapes
Smooth Bind
Transfer Maps
Sculpt Geometry
What is the window called that displays a lists of all polygons,lights,dynamics, groups, and etc in a maya scene?
Outliner
Hypergraph
Visor
Connection Editor
When setting up a leg or arm rig, you would typically use:
Smooth Bind
Rigid Bind
IK
FK
What is Maya's default linear working unit?
Centimeter
Inch
Meter
Yard
What is a vertex?
The center point of a X-Y Axis
Another name for a polygon
A data structure
that describes a point in 2D or 3D space
What channel do you put normal maps into?
Diffuse
Bump Mapping
Incandescence
Specular
What is the shortcut key to duplicate objects?
Cmd (Ctrl) + D
Cmd (Ctrl) + A
Shift + A
Shift + D
When zooming up close on an object and some of the object disappears, what should you adjust?
Near Clip Plane
Far Clip Plane
The lighting
Nothing to do
Maps which use the RGB channels to encode surface information on geometry at render time are called:
Phong E
Normal Maps
Bump Maps
Blinn
Which of these is required to bake ambient occlusion maps?
Lambert
Hypergraph
Mental Ray
What key would you hold down to snap to vertices?
X
S
V
C
Where is “Hypershade” located in the menu?
Window>Animation Editors>Hypershade
Window>Hypershade
Render>Hypershade
Window>Rendering
Editors>Hypershade
Window>General Editors>Hypershade
What camera should you create if you want to create a 3D image that you can view with red/blue glasses?
Stereo
3D
Two cameras manually placed
Camera, Aim, and Up
How many faces does the primitive cube have?
Twelve
Four
Six
Eight
Which of these allows you to configure the skin weights of multiple vectors at once:
Hypershade
Hypergraph
Component Editor
Graph Editor
One of the advantages to save a scene in the Maya Ascii file formats (.ma) is:
To move between
Maya's previous versions
Takes less disk space when compared with .mb file
What are the functions of each light in a Three-Point Lighting system?
Rear Light, Top Light, Fill Light
Back Light, Front Light, Fill Light
Back Light, Fill
Light, Key Light
Fill Light, Front Light, Side Light
What is a Playblast?
The viewport
A low-resolution
crude render
A render of each frame based on the render settings
The Hotbox in Maya is a:
Snapping operation
MEL command
Menu
navigational tool
What does the lattice tool create around its selected surface?
Cage
Circle
Face
Edge loop
Double click in the Select Tool, will open the:
Tool Help
Attribute Editor
Channel Box
Tool Setting
How can one render an animation project in maya?
animation render
timeline render
file render
all of the above
through render
menu set, render, batch render
what is the time limit for a timeline in maya
unlimited
24frames
48frames
timeline lengh
time code
I can connect the output of a node from Maya's hypershade to the input of a transform node
True
False
What is a n-gon?
A Polygon with more than two vertices
A Polygon with more than three edges
A Polygon with
more than four edges
A cube with more than four edges
Maya can import .3ds geometry files by default
True
False
Which shading simulates global lighting on an object?
Ambient
Occlusion
Phong E
Phong
Surface Shader
In 3D computer graphics, what color is generally used to represent the Y axis as opposed to the X and Z?
Yellow
Green
Blue
Red
The Trax Editor is a animation tool that lets you:
Tool to simplify tracking a live-action shot
Create, re-arrange, and manipulate camera shots
Control
characters and their animation clips, layer and blend animation sequences
Displays animation curve segments, keys, and key
tangents
What key would you hold down to snap to the grid?
V
S
C
X
What button makes a selected object a parent of another selected object?
Shift+Right-Click
Shift+P
Alt+P
P
Animation layers
Can work only for Characters
Don't give you the option of layering material
attributes
Works only if you used IK rigs
Are used for non
destructively editing animation
Which of these tools will allow you to smooth out geometry?
Jiggle Deformer
Lattice
Sculpt Geometry
Tool
Smooth Bind
What tool will you use to connect sets of edges or faces?
Bevel tool
Insert edge loop tool
Bridge tool
Combine tool
What technique imprints shadows from the scene onto the textures used?
Area Light
Point Light
Light Map baking
Ambient Occlusion
What shortcut do you use to grow your selection (ie. when working with faces or vertices)?
Shift + <
Shift + >
There is no shortcut
Cmd + ^
How do you display “Poly Count”?
Window>Poly Count
HUD>Poly Count
Display>Poly Count
Display>Heads
Up Display>Poly Count
Window>Heads Up Display>Poly Count
In animation, if you want a character’s hand to stick to an object, while the rest of the body is free to move, what would you use on the arm?
FK
Rigid Bind
Precise Timing
IK
Dynamic Relationships Editor, is used to control relationships of:
Character editing
Particle objects
Deformer set editing
Light linking
If you want to save the weights after weighting the rig, the first thing you should do is:
Open a new scene
Unbind the skin
Export Weights
Make a new UV set
What does the term Valency refer to?
The number of
edges connected to a single vertex
The total number of faces on a polygon object
The number of unique objects in a scene
The total number of edges on a polygon object
What option brings a skeleton back to its default pose?
Reset skeleton
Go to bind pose
Reset joints
Joint Tool
What does the hotkey f4 in maya do?
It changes the
main menu bar to surface mode
It changes the main menus to lighting
Nothing
It closes the maya application
For photo-realistic rendering which of these has to be true?
Anti aliasing should be remove by highest setting
Polygonal Facet has to be minimum
Light has to
have Quadratic decay rate
Geometry Has to perfect
What is the Hotkey for soft select?
"B"
"S"
shift+"S"
"V"
"A"
what does the hotkey F3 do in maya?
It opens the render settings menu
It changes the
maya main menu to polygon group of menus.
It changes the maya main menu to rendering group of
menus
It shows the help menu of maya
What is the keyboard shortcut to hide selected objects?
CTRL/CMD + H
Shift + H
F12
CTRL/CMD + Shift + B
CTRL/CMD + Shift + H
What is the hot-key to add a function or tool to a shelf tab?
Ctrl (Cmd) + Shift + right click
Ctrl (Cmd) +
Shift + left click it in the menu
Ctrl (Cmd) + middle click
Space + right click
To adjust the timing of an animation while holding attribute values at points on the animation curve, you would use:
Motion capturing
Breakdowns
Geometry caches
Drivers
On a rig, what would you use to change the orientation of an IK joint chain directly?
Component Editor
Rotation tool
Pole Vector
Lattice
What is the keyboard shortcut key used add shortcut for any tool from mesh, surface, animation, etc to shelf editor.
Alt+Shift+Ctrl (Cmd)+click
Alt+Shift+click
Shift+Ctrl
(Cmd)+click
True or False? To deform (influence) particles, you can use Deformers like Bend and Twist.
True
False
What is the short command to change the main menu bar to animation ?
F4
F1
F2
F3
What is the shortcut to simply change the background viewport colors?
Alt + Shift + b
Shift + b
Alt + b
What is a voxel?
A container of
volume data
Volumes as they are represented at render time
A result of the conversion of pixels to volumes
You can isolate objects for rendering by:
Parenting them to a camera
Isolating them
toggling render
selected objects only
Toggling off the display of their type of geometry
in the viewport
Using only Maya native renderer
Which mode allows you to orient joint axis?
Object Type
Component
Joint
Hierarchy
The option that defines how far apart the left and right cameras are in a stereo rig is called:
Focal Length
Interaxial
Separation
Zero Parallax
Angle of View
In stereoscopic renderings the ______ defines the zero point of depth of field.
Field of Vision
Red square
Depth of Field Plane
Zero Parallax
When Gamma correcting an 8bit file for use in a linear workflow, what value should be used for the RGB gamma values, assuming you are correcting a 2.2 gamma?
4.5
.454
.6
1.11
The Maya built in renderer will render particles
If you have enough particle count
Of All types
If you turn on the render particles option on the
renderer options
if they are
meant for software rendering
What material channel controls how glossy a Blinn material is?
Reflectivity
Glow Intensity
Eccentricity
Specular Color
Cosine Power
in the graph editor to make an animation curve repeat down the time line from it's LAST set value, you have to follow this list:
Curves > Post Infinity > Oscillate
Curves > Pre Infinity > Cycle
Curves > Pre Infinity > Cycle with Offset
Curves > Post
Infinity > Cycle with Offset
Curves > Post Infinity > Cycle
What are the Hotkeys for the various menu groups?
there are no hotkeys for the menu goups
The Function
Keys
spacebar
ctrl/cmd+shift number pad
The Number Pad
What button do you hold down to move a joint without moving the children?
Alt
D
Shift
M
True or False? The Trax Editor is not allowed to control motion path animation.
False
True
A hull is to nurbs as ______ is to polygons
Boundary edge
Isoparm
Edge loop
Edge
What material channel controls how glossy a Phong material is?
Reflectivity
Eccentricity
Specular Color
Cosine Power
Glow Intensity
If an object has a positive parallax, when viewed stereoscopically, it will:
Seem further away
Go into the
screen
Be darker
Appear to the right
The object selection mask is used for
Making objects selectable but not components
Determining what
type of data the selection operation can be performed on in the viewport
Selecting masked objects
Determining what type of object I can select
If you render a nurbs surface with Mental Ray for Maya and it does not look as smooth as in the view port, one of the things you may have to do to fix the problem is:
Neither of these
Check its approximation settings
Both of these
Check its tassellation values
IPR stands for
Infrared Rendering Report
Interactive Preview Rendering
Interactive
Photorealistic Rendering
Intermittent Render Pulse
Under what menu is the Normal Map transfer at?
Lighting/Shading>Transfer
Maps
Rendering>Transfer Maps
Lighting/Shading>Batch Bake>Transfer Maps
Rendering>lighting>Transfer Maps
Although you can examine multiple types of blind data at one time in the Blind Data Editor, you are only allowed one type of ______ action
Stitching
Color/query
Light source
Extrusion
To edit length of anchor handles in the graph editor, first you must:
unify tangents
Lock tangent weight
Free tangent weights
Break tangent
Create weighted
tangent
What is the best way to translate components along any arbitrary direction?
World
Along rotation axis
Object
Custom axis
orientation
For some reason I suddenly realize that my camera is tumbling faster than normally. I may have:
Chosen a pivot that exceeds acceptable boundaries
Messed with my
tumble scale
Increased my clipping plane
Changed my scene scale size
True or False? To eliminate undesirable deformation effects where the mesh loses volume as a bone twists on its axis, you would use the classic linear smooth skinning method.
False
True
In Maya, what does DAG stand for?
Dipole Auxilary Graphics
Directed Acyclic
Graph
Deeply Accessed Graphics
Directly Accessible Graph
The "by frame" option in the common tab of the render global settings allows you to:
Render frames in any order
Renders on the specified frames in the range
Define a
sub-frame sampling factor for rendered frames
None of the above
You can choose the wireframe color for your geometry
By selecting the geometry and invoking a color
chooser
If its renderable
From a limited
pallete
How many assemblyDefinition nodes can a Maya scene contain?
It depends on how many assembly representations you
have
Ten
One
Unlimited
When modeling with nurbs and using the boundary command, the curves involved in the operation must obligatorily be touching each other in 3D space.
False
TRUE
True or False? The IK/FK Spring solver is a valid solver in Maya.
False
TRUE
True or False? Blendshapes can work only as long as the target is not deleted.
False
True
