 Welcome to my new Maya for beginners tutorial and the first thing I want to do where I want to start is Making sure that you can never lose your word Maya has been known to crash, especially if your computer is a bit on the weaker side So we want to make sure that that can't happen to you and we're going to do that by setting up on dues autosave and also incremental saving So this is the default Maya workspace. You can see I've just opened up. It's brand new I've got this little prompt here telling me what's new. If you want to you can turn this off I don't want to show it at startup, but I do like to see what's highlighted for no particular reason So we'll click on okay to get rid of that and the first thing I'm going to do is show you where the settings are and How to turn on infinite undoes? So we're going to go to Windows and then within that menu you can go to settings preferences and then preferences That opens up the settings window and there are a lot of settings in Maya They're separated into categories down the left hand side and we can choose the ones that we need to see So the first one will do is undoing see there's an undo section on the left hand side And you can see that undo is turned on and by default in a lot of versions It's set to finite and with only 50 if that's the case for you Make sure you have it on infinite which means that you can go to edit Undo, which is there or you can press control and Z as many times as you want from when you opened Maya And you'll always be able to go back. That's the first thing we want to do Next what I want to do is turn auto saver Which means that we can set a period of time Let's say every 10 minutes, which is the default and Maya will just save our work Which means if something happens like a crash, we will only ever lose 9 minutes and 59 seconds worth of work Which is good. So in order to do that, we need to stay in the preferences window We're going to go to files and projects and There's an auto save section here and what we need to do is just click on enable and That's it. You can change the interval if you want So I'm just going to leave it at 10 minutes to find that to be really good And that's the first half of the auto save strategy that I want you to implement So we'll click on save for that Now what we're going to do is turn on incremental saving which will increment your save So instead of just saving the same file. So if we had something called seen It wouldn't just keep saving scene over the top of scene every time you save it would save scene Then scene one scene two scene three scene four Which is really good because it means that you're not at risk of losing that file if Maya crashes when it's rewriting when it's resaving it will only ever Lose the the newest one which again, it's about just protecting you from losing any work So in order to set that up we need to go to file Save scene will click on this little box here in Maya in the menus a lot of Options in the menu have these little boxers and that means there's some additional settings we can get to so if we click on that You'll see that we get this save scene options And we just need to tick the box for incremental save if you want to you can limit the number I never do I like to have the whole sort of history of something I've worked on and Then what I will do is just click on save scene and that will just make sure that that setting is saved I've already saved this one since I've been warming up this it might ask you to just give this Scenic name which you just need to do and then click on save Okay, that's it then for this first step the real super important thing I always show everybody to do first of all now we've got that under our belt in the next step We're going to move on to a bit of a tour of the Maya interface. I will see you there Game Dev Academy is graciously supported by these absolute legends If you'd like to offer your support then check out our patreon page using the link in the description below