Kerem Gogus shares his adventures of discovery and creating a method that provides for easy and simple switching of the viewport in Maya to x-ray view and back to regular view. Karem achieves this by setting the transparency of the default material, and using that bit of MEL. Technically you can do it the old school way and just set two keys for two frames in the timeline for the default material, and switch by clicking the frames… just make sure that you clear all incoming connections before the model is used down the pipe.

Maya Easy Xray from Kerem Gogus on Vimeo.

“A simple video I’ve recorded to show the simple solution I’ve found myself to switch x-ray mode easily while modeling.”

2 comments

  1. steve

    Sorry,
    I need to point out, that the third button from the right of every panel menu.
    is x-ray.

    the one that looks like a little ghost cube.

    you can also turn on xray from the panel menu under “shading”

    hth
    -=s

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    • lesterbanks

      Thanks for that, and this is true! I think Kerem’s point was that you can have different levels of “transparency” x-ray this way, which might be useful – something that I neglected to mention in the post about his technique.

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