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Maya 3D Computer Modeling

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The front - side - top views.






2. Modified shape to specular






3. Includes translating - rotating - and scaling an object in (x -y -z).






4. Has specular - Fall off differs from Blinn






5. Imitates light bulb - Omni-directional light rays - Fog






6. Has sepcular - Used for really shiny objects






7. Defines where material is transparent - AKA Scalar Maps






8. Image or color that wraps around the model.






9. The starting box where you add details needed.






10. Where x - y - z all meet. (0 -0 -0) the very center of a shot.






11. A light used to simulate sunlight and works by rotation.






12. Do alter silhouette edge of object - Require higher tesselation of surface






13. Software that uses graphics to click on/buttons instead of typed commands.






14. The 3D view of your shot.






15. When you don't parent 3D textures to the model properly and the object moves independently of its texture.


16. Scaling all directions at once.






17. Imitates rectangular neon light source - Light comes out of source area






18. Combine color map with transparency map to create a label that can be applied to surface






19. Only through Ray Tracing - Requires at least two surfaces - Requires modeling inside and outside of glass vessels






20. The connection between a shader and texture.






21. A light that is being emitted in all directions.






22. A container that has either a shader - texture - etc.






23. Textures that the software makes for you so that they render faster. 2D texture wraps around the model - 3D goes inside the object.






24. Imitates theatrical spot light - Can be focused






25. Fakes true environment - Less time to calculate - Resembles true reflections - Image projected on virtual shape






26. The darkest color an object will ever be.






27. Apply more than one material on object depending on position of ramp






28. When one object is a parent object - one is a child object - and whatever the parent object does - the child does the same.






29. A CG term where an imaginary line sticks out perpendicular to the faces so that you can see the exterior of the model.






30. Imitates sun - Position of light is irrelevant - Rotation orientation of light is important






31. Shows you the resolution of your shot and the aspect ratio of your render cam.






32. Off-the-shelf software that anyone uses.






33. Something that shows how light will affect a model (Blinn - Lambert - etc.)






34. Create a primitive shape - add edge loops - edit edge loops/faces/vertices. Made up of faces - edges.






35. A part of the software where you tell Maya that you only want certain lights to affect certain objects.






36. A small box so that the title doesn't get cut off.






37. Naming all files in the same way so that they're easy to find.






38. The box where an important action must fit so that nothing gets cut off.






39. Apply more than one material on object depending on transparency






40. Gesture thumb to right - index up - and middle towards you. Represents the axis: positive X is your thumb - positive Y is index finger - and middle finger is positive Z.






41. Mathematically most simple - No specular - Used for matte finishes






42. A texture that was taken from a file.






43. Made up of isoparms (edges) - controlled vertices - patches (faces).






44. Basic shapes (spheres - cubes - cylinders) that act as building blocks to create a project.






45. Polygons - NURBS - SubDs






46. When you take all rendered images into a software and turn them into a single movie file.






47. True reflections - Vector based math - Computationally heavy - More bounces = More power needed - Calculates refraction






48. Rendering (taking pictures of) a whole sequence or "batch" of images.






49. The flow of how the edges are patterned around the model.






50. Picking one arrow and scaling one direction at a time.