Maya For Softimage Users: Understanding Outliner Navigation

If you are a SoftImage user that is transitioning to Maya, you might be missing the Softimage explorer right now.

trying to cover the “pains” that you will find coming from Softimage to Maya

One of the things that Miquel Campos had a hard time getting around, was navigating in the Maya Outliner.

Miquel offers only a couple of small tips, but they are all part of his “Maya Painkiller” initiative which aims to share small epiphanies with other migrant Softimage users.

Since Maya 2014, the Outliner window accepts the Option-Middle-Mouse-Click drag which will allow you to pan around the Outliner much the same way as any other Maya window.