I wholeheartedly agree on the workflow and UI part, I think the two usually go hand in hand. Maya feels very much like a bunch of nodes with the UI built around it as an afterthought. And XSI the exact reverse. But don't get me started about the Maya SDK. It's very open but boy, what a mess. It's riddled with inconsistencies and bugs (that includes the documentation). 30% of the code I used to write were accounted for by workarounds because of all these illnesses. I can only imagine all the old and new devs on the Maya team who are sitting there in this room together constantly scratching their heads and thinking about ways of how they could make it plausible to upper management as to why fixing Maya is still cheaper and less of a mammoth task than building a whole new app from scratch, or even Qt-ing and de-COM-ing Soft and building upon that code base instead in the first place.
> It's not all about UI, non linear workflow is also very important. A simple > example are the generalised weight map in SI. You don't have this in Maya, > it's all black boxed per deformer, and each one have differant SDK access! > It's just one example among many other... > >> Le 1 oct. 2013 à 20:51, Simon Reeves <si...@simonreeves.com> a écrit : >> >> Oh yeah for sure, I know I'm jumping in a bit, but I do agree, the important >> thing really is that you have a decent base and that base should be >> Softimage (or something in the future that develops from it's workflow >> please!) and then dipping in using ncloth in maya, or fume in max is >> practical when you have decent IO >> >> >> >> Simon Reeves >> London, UK >> si...@simonreeves.com >> www.simonreeves.com >> >> >> >>> On 1 October 2013 11:47, Eugen Sares <sof...@mail.sprit.org> wrote: >>> ... if you have a good user interface / front-end. >>> Most of the discussion about Soft vs. Maya is about this. No doubt Maya is >>> bursting with clever technology - but it's the way it is >>> accessible/presented to the artist. There's always something extra to click >>> or to figure out before you can do even simple things, as flexible as the >>> architecture may be. >>> Softimage devs just paid a lot more attention to all this, and it pays off >>> until today. >>> >>> Good and simple UIs become more and more important anyway, that's what >>> Autodesk CEO Carl Bass is talking about in that interview recently. >>> http://readwrite.com/2013/03/26/autodesk-ceo-carl-bass-making-free-apps-is-harder-than-making-enterprise-software#awesm=~oj0MuqIvLYsChE >>> >>> Not that you need to wield a complex 3D application on a tablet with your >>> fingers, but there's a lot to be learned from this new ways of user >>> interaction. >>> >>> >>> >>> Am 01.10.2013 12:21, schrieb Simon Reeves: >>>> When I see the other chaps using it, ncloth seems pretty great though - >>>> modular apps are the future. We don't need to do everything in one app, we >>>> just need a good base, and good i/o. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Simon Reeves >>>> London, UK >>>> si...@simonreeves.com >>>> www.simonreeves.com >>> >>> >>> -------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe: mail softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with subject >>> "unsubscribe" and reply to the confirmation email. >> >> -------------------------- >> To unsubscribe: mail softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with subject >> "unsubscribe" and reply to the confirmation email. > -- --------------------------------------------- Stefan Kubicek ste...@keyvis.at --------------------------------------------- keyvis digital imagery Alfred Feierfeilstraße 3 A-2380 Perchtoldsdorf bei Wien Phone: +43 (0) 699 12614231 www.keyvis.at -- This email and its attachments are -- -- confidential and for the recipient only -- -------------------------- To unsubscribe: mail softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with subject "unsubscribe" and reply to the confirmation email.
