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Component tags - Maya Tutorial
From the course: Maya 2024 Essential Training
Component tags
- [Instructor] Maya's component tags help you remember the selections of your components when modeling in Maya. So let's take a look at this. I'm going to select this engine pod and hop over to the attribute editor. Now in the attribute editor we have a couple of different tabs here. And the first tab is the main node and that contains all of your translation information. The second tab should be the shape node and that contains the geometry information for the object. So in this shape node you should have a rollout called component tag. So if I click on that and scroll down you'll see I have a couple of component tags already set up. So before we use these, let me explain how this works. We have our component tag name, so basically just a descriptive name. We have the type of components, so faces, vertices and edges, the location, in other words what object we're using that on, as well as some numbers for how many…
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