Maya Episode 7

[Elfreda Barrick]

Helloguys,

Question1: I was follow ing a tutorial of modeling. I found that the tutor can create ep curves by using ep curve tool when he select other object and enter the "isolate select" mode first.

I don't know which version of maya he was using but my maya 2016 sp6 can't seem to do it the same way.

When I first select some objects and isolate them then when I try to use ev curve tool to create a curve, I can't see any the control vertex when creating it or the actual curve after I finishing creating the curve.

The only thing I can do is to use the "add selected object" from "isolate select" menue on the viewport bar...

Does anyone encounter the same issue? is there an work around? Is it even normal?

I thought there is a way to resovle this is using layers, but it might involve python or mel script....but I am not a coder ...:/

2: Another thing also buging me is, when I am isolating select objects in one viewport, other viewports are not doing the same thing too. Is there a way or option that I can sync them? I mean when I went into a isolate select mode, every other viewport also went into isolate select mode?

Hope anyone can see it, be greatful if anyone can answer the question...

Tom

My desktop build : Win 10, Amd R9 280x, crimson lastes driver, Maya 2016 sp6

Jane: Hello, hello, hello, it's On The Ledge podcast, episode 124, I'm your host Jane Perrone. Do you know what happened after I finished recording the Hoya tour from last week's episode, episode 123? I realised once the episode had gone out, I'd forgotten a Hoya! I knew I had thirteen and I talked about a dozen of them. So first thing is first and I need to tell you about that final Hoya. We'll also be meeting listener Jessie East Ward - answering a question about a yellow Dieffenbachia and in the main chunk of the show an interview with herbologist and chef, Maya Thomas, about everything.

Jane: Question, what do Jack, Pattie, Stephanie and Andy all have in common? Answer: They've all become Patreons of On The Ledge podcast this week, so thank you very much to you, you give me life and you are helping to grow On The Ledge and take us to even greater heights. Find out how you can become a Patreon at JanePerrone.com and there's also details there of how to give a one-off donation via ko-fi.com and support the show in lots of other ways. Don't forget the On The Ledge shop which offers you the chance to buy wonderful On The Ledge merchandise featuring our fantastic logo designed by Jacqueline Colley. T-shirts, Hoodies, Hats, Mouse Mats, it's all there. So do take a look at the shop, the link is in the top right corner at my website JanePerrone.com

Jane: So, before I forget, Hoyas, Hoyas, Hoyas, the one I forgot, is the lovely Hoya australis lisa. How could I forget this plant? Well, it was sitting on my kitchen windowsill where I normally don't keep Hoyas, so I think it got a little bit hidden and forgotten when I was pulling those plants together for my tour. But it's a really nice plant, my one is a fairly small specimen that I picked up, I bought it from North One Garden Centre, regular listeners will know I'm a bit of a fan of that particular shop. This was bought there last year sometime, I can't quite remember when, as a smallish plant, I think it's actually two cuttings in a pot. So far it's going up, the stems haven't got long enough to be the point where they start to droop down but the foliage on this plant is really lovely. If you can imagine a leaf that starts out at it margins in the darkest, darkest possible green and then in an irregular random pattern becomes ever lighter to move towards a pale lime green centre. It's glossy. It's leathery. It's a lovely Hoya leaf and the nice thing about this plant also is that the new leaves come through this rather carmine pink colour and you do get flashes of carmine pink in the leaves as well and in the stem depending on how much light the plants are in.

So this is a really, really nice Hoya, I can't wait for this to get bigger and start to trail. It's an easy one, I would say it's as easy as your regular Carnosas and so on. I think it's also fairly easy to get hold of now, so it's one of those entry Hoyas that will really get you into this particular genus of plants. So I apologise, Lisa, for forgetting you, I do love you very much and if you've got a Lisa that's a bit bigger and more developed I would love to see a picture so I can see what my plant is going to turn into. So there we go, that's number thirteen. I don't think it's going to be long before my Hoya collection becomes even bigger. I just discovered a website in the Netherlands that sells loads of rooted and unrooted Hoya cuttings. There's also somebody in the UK who sells on eBay, so as soon as the weather warms up, I think I might be adding to my collection somewhat. I'm going a bit Hoya crazy right now but I can't get enough of these plants. Thanks to all of you who responded to last week's Hoya tour, it seems you can't get enough of Hoyaseither, so do share your Hoya pictures with me, I'd love to see your collections and what plants you have. Do get in touch for any cutting swaps because I'm totally up for that if you happen to be in the UK.

Jessie: My name is Jessie East Ward and I live in Shepherds Town, West Virginia in the United States. My first hour plant was a schefflera which was given to me when I was about fourteen, this is when I first started taking an interest in house plants and I've loved them ever since. For years I've had more plants than I have a reasonable amount of space for and since I've started listening to On The Ledge that problem has only been compounded.

Jessie: This is such a difficult question, so many of my plants have been with me for years and have their own stories. If I had to choose I think it would be Euphorbia trigona or African Milk Tree. I would choose this one because it has grown the most in the time that I've had it. It was given to me by a friend about seven years ago and it was only four inches or ten centimetres tall. Now, it's about 40 inches or one metre tall.

Jessie: My favourite episode is number seventeen about Pilea Peperomiodes. This was the first episode that I ever listened to and I love to know the history behind things, so hearing the story behind this plant was the perfect introduction to your podcast for me. A friend of mine owns a flower shop and he hid baby Pileas around the town and posted about it on social media for people to find. My kids and I went on a hunt and that is how we got our Pilea.

Jessie: I'd have to say Sansevieria trifasciata just because it's a very well known plant but people know it as the Snake Plant or the Mother-in-law's Tongue, so when they hear the technical name behind it, they get a little baffled.

Jane: Jessie you are a woman after my own heart, if you'd like to be featured on Meet the Listener, then drop a line to OnTheLed...@gmail.com and it could be your dulcet tones on the show very soon.

Jane: I first met Maya Thomas at the Garden Museum's Houseplant Festival last year when she was part of a panel discussion about plants. Maya is a cook, writer and herbologist, she's worked in herb and kitchen gardens across the UK including the Chelsea Physic Garden and she runs herbal workshops around the country. You can find out online at themodernherbal.com and after hearing her speak I knew I would love to have a longer chat with Maya, so I headed down to meet her in her London home before Christmas and we chatted, boy did we chat. The resulting interview is wide-ranging to say the least, we cover everything from plant health, to herbs, to why weeds are wonderful. We strode quite a long way from house plants but I hope all of you will enjoy listening on a chat between two planty people. Do check out the show notes as you listen at JanePerrone.com because there's lots of links in there to the things we talk about. For more information about the Don't Risk It Campaign which is a UK Government campaign to encourage people not to bring plant material back from overseas. And a link to a piece I wrote about the community herb garden that I mention in this interview. I decide to run this whole interview which is about an hour long in one big chunk, so make yourself a cup of tea, settle down and have a listen.

Jane: Herbs are amazing, I'm always amazed by how little people understand where things come from. If I'm making something and it's got some particular thing in it and sometimes I don't know and I'm thinking I don't know where this comes from, or how, and I always find it fascinating to look that stuff up. What was it I was looking up, I think it was maize, and I was like: "Wow, that's blown my mind, I can't believe what maize is," and I didn't actually get to the point of looking up where they grow maize.

Maya: Indonesia, well, a lot, because it's the outer of the nutmeg. If you think back to the spice trade, basically, I was trying to say this to my dad the other day. Our whole economic system is basically based on the trade of plants, that's what it is, that's what all trade has been about. Back in the medieval times, like, four cardamom was the same cost as a labourer's yearly salary.

Maya: Interestingly enough, the Chelsea Physic Garden, if you go there, they've got original seeds that became the most grown cotton in places like Virginia and things like that were sent by Chelsea Physic Garden out to America. It's our whole history, plants are our whole history. It's in the same way that we have become so focused on how the provenance of our food, where it's coming from, how has it got to here, and we're all being slightly more ethical and we want our farmers' markets and we want to be interacting with the producers and how is it grown? No pesticides? I think in the same way we need to be that curious about our house plants and things that we're bringing into our home. It's not possible to grow everything locally and we can't go back in time, particularly in the UK, because we're a country that has been formulated on the fact that we had an empire and we traded in all these places, in a quite unhealthy way for a long time. I think that having all of that as part of history, it's great that you can come to the UK and eat all sorts of food and have all sorts of people living here, that's amazing. We're all culpable, we're all responsible and I think just as individuals we to, if we can, start to ask those questions a bit. Nothing's going to be perfect, we're not all going to stop flying overnight, we're not all going to stop using plastic overnight, but if we can start to ask some of the right questions ... that's where I think Defra's campaign for plant health comes in. Talking to Nicola Spence, who is Chief Plant Health Officer and Department Director of Plants and Bee health and varieties and seeds.

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