How to control an object easily in Maya? step by step process
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First create a cube
Create – polygon primitives- Cube
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Select the cube and right click on it, an option will come
like that
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Then go to the top option, it is Edge
Hold right click and drag the mouse to Edge option
The object color is changed into blue edge.
Select First Move Tool or press w
Now select one edge of the Cube
You can move now
Again Hold right click and drag the mouse to Vertex
option
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The cube change now in blue edge and point of the corner is
in pink when you select it, it will be changed in yellow color.
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Select the move tool and move the vertex where you want
Again Hold right click and drag the mouse to Face option
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The cube change now in blue color and you can see there is a
blue color point in the middle of the cube, click it and select the face.
Select move tool and you can move the face
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Now how you return to the object mode?
Again Hold right click and drag the mouse
to the Object Mode option
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This is the basic selection of an object. Practice it again
and again.