Tim Naylor
Articles
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GUI Overview
The GUI is a dockable widget in Maya so you can have Aria has a free floating window or dock it to the main Maya interface to save real estate. The main interface is broken up vertically into four...
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The Shape View
The Shape View is the area in the Aria UI that displays the Network Nodes for the current Shape Network. The view is intended to be familiar to modelers based on Maya's Shape Editor. The Shape View...
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The Property View
The Property View shows properties of each network node type. There are properties that each network node type share in common (like the name) whereas certain properties are relative to each networ...
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The Split Maps View
The Split Maps View is the view to create and manage split map files. This view is an integrated view that allows for applying painted values to the neutral mesh for use when assigning Split networ...
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The Preferences View
The Preferences View gives you the ability to configure many aspects of the Aria system and shape network. Primarily the Preferences View provides a GUI for the configuration file that Aria looks t...
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The Combination Preview
The Combination Preview is intended to help modelers create combination nodes by showing possible combination nodes and existing combination nodes in the network from selected nodes in the Shape Vi...
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The Merged Network View
The Merged Network View shows the primary control attributes on the merged primary control after merging a network. Since Aria allows you to have multiple networks per file there might be cases whe...
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The RBF Training View
The RBF (Radial Basis Function) Training View is a view in Aria that allows Maya transforms to be trained using a special RBF solver contained within the flexSolver node. When creating characters ...