Don't get me wrong...its not like I am very excited to use it either. I knew coming here my days of hands on SI work was over. But honestly, my career over the last 8 years has veered away from hands on content creation so I really don't use any DCC these days...however my team does use Maya as the main tool exactly because it is so customizable. Along with Modo and a handful of SI users too!
But, just because Maya is so customizable doesn't mean that it makes life easier. From my point of view, this place built their entire workflow and toolset on Maya and we are paying a deep cost because of that in time, money and sanity. Most people don't see it that way. But having used other DCCs and other engines this pain was completely self-inflicted. The burn rate on building out Maya tools and the overhead we are paying to just support and bug fix our own tools is crazy. I would have rather spent that money on other tools, workflows and even building our own editor. Then at least we would have had all the control in the world. This is why doing it all in the DCC doesn't make sense to me. To Graham's point, yes I have seen one too many devs with eyes bigger than their stomach think they can build the next great engine and editor. Not too many places can actually afford to do that or even do it right. Though I have been lucky to work at places that can or at least be smart enough to just buy a license of UE3\4. Meh 2 cents to the pile. Back to my excel and powerpoint. :) From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Steven Caron Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 6:01 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Survey - how would you do this? sarcasm aside, i am not surprised people use maya for game dev.. i know very well how customizable it is, and envy it plenty. its just not... exciting to me. On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Guillaume Laforge <guillaume.laforge...@gmail.com<mailto:guillaume.laforge...@gmail.com>> wrote: Don't forget to print the threads/coupons Steven ! On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Steven Caron <car...@gmail.com<mailto:car...@gmail.com>> wrote: ya, i get that feeling too ;) its magical On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Guillaume Laforge <guillaume.laforge...@gmail.com<mailto:guillaume.laforge...@gmail.com>> wrote: I've got the feeling that someone is trying to sell us some Autodesk products here. Can I have a special discount if I print this thread and bring it to my reseller ?
