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Duplicating objects

Duplicating objects - Maya Tutorial

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Duplicating objects

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- [Instructor] Now let's take a look at the duplication tools in Maya. Now you can find these under edit, and actually I'm going to tear this off for just a second here. So we have Edit, we have Duplicate, Duplicate Special and Duplicate with Transform. And notice how the hot keys are Ctrl D, Ctrl Shift D, and Shift D. So I'm going to remember those. And actually I'm going to go ahead and close this so we can see what happens on the screen. So I'm going to go ahead and select the spaceship, and notice that there's only one spaceship. If I hit Ctrl D for duplicate creates a second one. But that spaceship is located exactly where the other one was. So I'm going to go ahead and use my Move tool to move this a little bit to the right. Now I'm going to show you the next tool immediately. I'm going to go ahead and hit Shift D for duplicate with Transform. Now notice what happens, it creates a second one, but in this case, it actually transforms it by exactly the same amount that the…

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