Maya Adventures (Part one?)

In 3D class, recently, we've started doing some relatively difficult stuff in Maya. And by difficult stuff, I mean UV mapping... which still makes no sense to me.

It makes WAY more sense than it did a few weeks ago, but, still... I have no idea what I'm doing. Teachers and Upperclassman reassure me that it'll make sense soon, so... I'll take their word for it.

Unfortunately, I am still not allowed to post screenshots (I wish, though!) so I'll just use this as a way to complain about some Maya functions that absolutely piss me off. That way, I can come back to this post a year from now and laugh about how stupid I was. Great.

First of all, ALL of my Maya hatred manifests in the "Unfold" tool. Now, I understand there are different ways (and yes, I have used them successfully so don't worry), but... this tool seems like it's trying to simplify the process. But all. It does. Is make it. WORSE. Ten times worse. It RARELY ever works, and when it does, it usually screws your UVs up, and you have to undo or remap them completely. God, I /REALLY/ hate this tool.

Not exactly a specific tool this time, but something that straight-up pissed me off was when I was working on a cloth piece... and an upperclassman showed me a tool called something like "sculpt polygon tool". What. The. %(#^. If I would've known about this tool before, I wouldn't of spent four hours trying to model a fluid piece of cloth out of polygons. Jeeze.

Well, that's all the rage I have today. Stay tuned for more infuriating lectures later.