 Good morning class, I'm Professor Whittington and in today's class We're going to take a look at how you go about changing the background color of the viewports in Maya So you might want to do this for a variety of reasons One to make your work look better another might be so that it's easier on your eye But I've learned this year from having a couple of students that are colorblind That it can be really important to just make it so that you can work in Maya in the first place So let's have a look at how you can do that in Maya. So the first thing is actually fairly straightforward Just get my keyboard out All you need to do is hold alt and B. Let me just make sure I've got this window selected So alt and B and this will cycle through four different presets. So you've got this nice gradient That's kind of got a gray blue tint to it, which is nice If you press it again, you get black which can be really good for making your work stand out Or if you're getting screenshots, you want to take the background off that can be really useful as well Or you can do alt and B again you get this sort of dark gray and Alt and B one more time and you get the lighter gray and they can be really useful, but There is actually one other way of adding different colors to your viewport Which I don't think anybody else on YouTube is really covered. So I'll show you that so we're going to go to Windows settings preferences and there's this color settings spot right here. So we'll go into there and You'll see straight away if you open this 3d views You've got background gradient top and gradient bottom So I'm gonna leave the background where it is, but I kind of want to give a bit of a Sort of sunset a vibe to my my viewport So we'll go to this gradient top and I'm just gonna take it into this blue range I don't want to go too far. So just add a bit of blue so you can see I'm doing that there That's okay and the gradient bottom we're gonna go into the kind of Orange space a little bit bring the saturation up Bring the color up and then we'll bring that that back down Like that and that can make your work a little better as well so I Think that'll do it for this one. It's just a quickie. I do like the occasional quickie So I hope that's helped you out if it has then for the love of Christ Put a comment below and tell me that it's done that and maybe even share it with your friends Because the more people that watch my videos the the happier it makes YouTube and we like it when YouTube is happy Yeah, so thank you for watching and I hope to see you in the next class Class dismissed. I'd like to say a massive. Thank you to my patrons Your support helps me to keep making videos like this one and I really appreciate each and every one of you It really blows my mind that people will support my channel and my work by pledging their money through patreon So again, thank you all so so much If you aren't already a patron and you'd like to offer your support then please go to patreon.com forward slash shane whitington