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Configuring viewports

Configuring viewports

- [Instructor] You can also configure your viewport so you can view your scenes differently in Maya. So here, we have a perspective viewport and along the top, you'll see that we have menus for view, shading, lighting, and so on. We also have some buttons that also give you that same functionality along the top of the viewport. Now I'm going to hop out to this four view here, and you'll see that every viewport has that menu and series of buttons. And that means we can configure our viewports differently for each view. So we're going to take a look at just one of these. So I'm going to go ahead and just highlight this perspective view and tap the Spacebar. If that doesn't work, just go ahead and press this button here. Now, one of the things you can do with the viewport is select the camera you are looking through. So if I go view, select camera, you'll see that that camera comes up here along the side. And if I…

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