Heads Up Display

You can show, hide, or change the display of the heads-up display text that appears for certain tools.

Tool messages

Shows or hides the tool messages.

Display time

Sets how long the tool message appears on screen, in seconds.

Offset display vertically

Sets the vertical position relative to the view center, in pixels.

Offset display horizontally

Sets the horizontal position relative to the view center, in pixels.

Popup Help

Tooltips

You can enable or disable tooltips.

Display time

Specify a display time for pop-up help. The default is four seconds.

Help System

English / Japanese / Other

For each of these three options, Maya displays online help locally.

Select the documentation language set Maya loads when you use the help. If you have another documentation language set installed you can click Other and type a language/dialect code in the Specify language box.

The code that you enter must match the documentation folder name. For example, if you have Korean documentation installed in <drive>:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2009\docs\Maya2009\ko_KR, you must type ko_KR exactly in the Specify language box. Otherwise, an error is returned.

Remote Location / Remote URL

Maya displays online help from the URL specified in the Remote URL box. This can be a help system on an accessible network drive.

For more information, see Maya Help overview.