Midterm - SGD-114

Which type of image file should be used for texture maps within Maya as well as game engines?

.PNG

What is the main file extension that Maya uses when saving out your Maya scene?

.mb

Which of the following is NOT a proper power of 2 texture size?

486X486

After applying a material to an object, what is the keyboard shortcut to turn on "shaded with textures" mode in the viewport?

6

What keyboard shortcut turns on lighting mode in the viewport?

7

To pan in the viewport, you have to hold down what other key along with the middle mouse button?

Alt

What is one way to orbit or rotate around in the viewport?

Alt+Left Mouse Button

What type of light can be used to fill the dark areas of a scene produced by a second lights shadows?

Ambient

Which tool allows you to connect polygons or edges together across a distance and add more polygonal detail?

Bridge

What is the keyboard shortcut that when held down allows you to snap to a curve in the viewport?

C

After an object is created, what is the name of the menu on the right side of the user interface where you can go to change the basic parameters, such as width, height, and subdivision?

Channel Box

Which of the following is not a standard polygonal primitive?

Circle

What selection/editing mode is associated with adjusting the vertices, edges, faces, and UVs of an object?

Component

What type of object can you use with the loft tool to create complex, organic geometry?

Curves

What is the proper order of UV mapping steps as discussed in class?

Cut UV Edges, Select Faces, Unfold Faces, Refine UV Placement

This command clears out and ensures that none of the previously used commands or tools on a selected object. What is the name of this command?

Delete By Type > History

This type of light creates parallel rays of light throughout the entire scene. It is similar to a sun or moon light which replicates like from a far distance away. What type of light is this?

Directional

How do you turn on the Poly Count option to be able to see how many polygons are in your scene?

Display > Heads up display > Poly count

The layers menu allows you to place objects on separate layers so you can do what?

Display and hide them

All of the following are ways to add material to a selected object except which one?

Double click on a material with an object selected.

Which of the following commands allows you to create a copy of an object that is referred to as an instance because you can edit vertices, edges, faces, or UVs of one instance and the same is changed on all of the other copies?

Duplicate Special

Which of the following is NOT a keyboard shortcut or command that changes the pivot point location of an object?

Edit > Adjust Pivot

Which of the following is not one of the Curve Tools used to create a curve as a basis for a custom NURBS surface?

Elastic Polygon Curve

All of the following are types of polygons we have discussed except which one?

Equilaterals

What is the keyboard shortcut to center a selected object in the viewport?

F

What keyboard shortcut switches to Face Component mode of a polygonal based geometry?

F11

What keyboard shortcut switches between Object Mode and Component Mode for polygonal surfaces?

F8

A procedural texture created within Maya's Hypershade is dependent on UV mapping the object correctly.

False

NURBS geometry can be directly imported into game engines and rendered without any distortions or issues.

False

The keyboard shortcut "5" turns on wireframe mode in the viewport.

False

Using the Soften Edge option for polygonal edges will add more vertices to the polygons in order to give the object a smoother appearance.

False

When saving a texture map out of Photoshop or other like programs, the UV layer and other layers should be kept on and saved with the final detail.

False

All of the following are examples of procedural textures created within Maya except which one?

File

What render node is used in a material of hypershade to plug a texture map into the base color channel of a shader?

File

What command allows you to combine multiple objects to manipulate them together but keeps the ability to adjust the individual objects?

Group

Which of the following is NOT a component mode of polygonal geometry?

Group

What is the menu called that allows you to create and edit an object's surface parameters and texture detail?

Hypershade

Which of the following shaders does not allow the option of specular highlights, or shininess for a material?

Lambert

Which of the following NURBS tools creates a surface between two or more open or closed surfaces by skinning a surface along a series of profile curves.

Loft

A congruent selection of edges that can be done by double clicking on an edge is called what?

Loop

What is one way to zoom in and out of the viewport?

Middle Mouse Wheel

What is one way to zoom in and out of the viewport?

Middle mouse button

What is the name of the menu that can be opened up on the right side of the user interface that has many of the most used polygonal tools?

Modeling Toolkit

Any polygon with more than 4 sides is called what?

N-Gon

What does the term NURBS stand for?

Non-uniform Rational Basis-Splines

What is the name of the fool that allows you to create an edge loop on both sides of a selected edge?

Offset edge loop

When using the move, rotate, or scale tool, the object transforms based off which of the following?

Pivot Point

A texture that is created within Maya that produces a tile-able pattern without having to go outside of Maya is called what?

Procedural Texture

What is the keyboard shortcut for the Select tool?

Q

Why are quads important to use for polygonal editing tools and higher polygon modeling?

Quads allow you to subdivide a mesh cleanly with no surface distortions.

What is the keyboard shortcut for the Scale tool?

R

Which of the following NURBS surface creation tools with create a vase/wine glass shape from a single curve profile?

Revolve

What is the name of the command that allows you to stitch edges back together when trying to unwrap UVs for an object? This is the opposite of the Cute UV Edges Tool.

Sew UV Edges

Holding down which key and clicking allows you to select multiple objects?

Shift

Holding down what keyboard key opens up the hotbox, a contextual menu that allows you to select options/tools from the menus around where your curser is located?

Spacebar

What is the keyboard shortcut when tapped allows you to switch between the default perspective viewport and orthographic viewports?

Spacebar

This type of light has a cone angle that can be changed to determine how wide of an area the light reaches out from it's initial point. It is similar to a theatrical light. Which type of light is this?

Spot

Soft selection allows you to select a component of an object and determine if falloff for the effect of any transformations to that surface. This option is similar to hardness of a brush in Photoshop.

True

Specularity, or specular highlights determine if an object is shiny or not. It creates light reflections that determine if an object or part of an object is matte or shiny in finish.

True

The texture map is created to determine the color, value and material detail can be called either the diffuse map or the base color map?

True

Using as much of the UV space as you can when unwrapping an object's UVs is important for maximizing texture resolution.

True

When a quad polygon is rendered out in a game engine, two triangle individual faces are actually produced and rendered.

True

Which of the following is NOT an effective way to combine two vertices?

Use the Connect tool to connect one to the other

What is the keyboard shortcut for the Move or translate tool?

W

What is the keyboard shortcut that when held down allows you to snap to the grid points in the viewport?

X

UVW texture coordinates are equivalent to what coordinates in 3D space?

X,Y,Z