Malcolm Andrieshyn Shows How to Make a Show and Hide Edges Toggle in Maya, Plus Some Other Tips.

With a new installment in his Maya Modeling Tricks and Secrets series Lead Environment Artist for The Coalition Malcolm Andrieshyn shares how to create a show and hide edges toggle set to a hotkey in Autodesk Maya. It’s a simple thing, using the hotkey editor and a bit of code, you can show and hide edges with a keystroke, saving you some time when modeling.

Over the course of the series, Malcolm also talks about adding a custom shelf to the Modeling Toolkit, and a couple of ways to slide verts along edges. Previous installments had a look into time-saving tricks for aligning surfaces, aligning UV shells, and creating texture nodes, and how to straighten UVs, use slower manipulators, and cutting on a diagonal with multi-cut — All of which you can see below.