Ball Bounce Failure

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

9:30pm-11:10pm

I watched the one minute tutorials on Maya to refresh my memory on the controls and commands. I feel like this will be a frequent occurrence until I fully understand and get the hang of it. Right now my memory seems short when attempting to remember all of the graphs, frames, axises, and such all at once.

When watching the Ball Bouncing animation tutorial, I attempted to follow along on Maya at the same time. A few problems came up, requiring me to re watch much of the content of the video numerous times. When I Shift+W to set the translated axis and location, the frames do not turn red like in the video. I have no indication of where I set frames. I believe this is another reason why I could not copy and paste frames (even in the graph), making me have to keep making new frames, guesstimating where I had the previous ones.

By the time I had done all of this, I realized my sets have too few frames between them, making the ball bounce extremely quick and almost impossible to see in real time. I feel like I need to restart. I've already undid my progress several times over to fix other mistakes, such as when I would hit Shift+W and the frames wouldn't set.

I save every few minutes, which helps when I set a frame wrong and can't figure out how to fix it- so then I exit out, which deletes my unsaved mistakes, and I can start over where the decent progress left off. I've already done this once.

Looking back on my notes I found that I should use "Merge" when copying and pasting.

I tried to look for it, but must have hit something else on accident, because now my ball won't move when I hit play. Undo-ing did not fix it...

This process takes me much longer than anticipated. I will have to set aside more time to complete outside-of-class work.


(Also, these posts are set to PST for some reason. So when I post this at 11:30pm, the computer thinks it's 8:30 pm... I don't know how to permanently change it to EST)

~Jennah A