It would be more fair to regroup the list of top5 into distinct categories: modelling, rigging, animation, rendering, FX ... and a general one for the workflow, UI, and such.
Here's a quickie from my experience of using Maya in rigging/dev: *Rigging* - friendly weights painting and spreadsheet that works just the way they are supposed to - GATOR. And please don't compare this wonder to the Transfer Attributes of Maya. - being able to do *live* corrective shapes on a deformed mesh *General* - ICE - the API... seriously, having a logical and consistent API that is easy to use and don't need additional efforts to do simple dev tasks won't go in the way of flexibility. I don't know of any dev who didn't complain about Maya's API. - proper and complete port of the API to Python On 13 March 2014 04:54, Alastair Hearsum <hear...@glassworks.co.uk> wrote: > Hello > > It seems as if I may have some contact with Autodesk shortly! I want to be > armed with some points. What I'd like is your top 5 features that make > Softimage great that we'd miss if we migrated to something else. > > Please don't give me more than 5 and please don't go on too long > describing them (It takes a while to read all the posts). > > Thanks > > Alastair > > -- > Alastair Hearsum > Head of 3d > [image: GLASSWORKS] > 33/34 Great Pulteney Street > London > W1F 9NP > +44 (0)20 7434 1182 > glassworks.co.uk <http://www.glassworks.co.uk/> > Glassworks Terms and Conditions of Sale can be found at glassworks.co.uk > (Company registered in England with number 04759979. Registered office 25 > Harley Street, London, W1G 9BR. VAT registration number: 867290000) > Please consider the environment before you print this email. > DISCLAIMER: This e-mail and attachments are strictly privileged, private > and confidential and are intended solely for the stated recipient(s). Any > views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not > necessarily represent those of the Company. If you are not the intended > recipient, be advised that you have received this e-mail in error and that > any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this e-mail is > strictly prohibited. If this transmission is received in error please > kindly return it to the sender and delete this message from your system. > -- Christopher Crouzet *http://christophercrouzet.com* <http://christophercrouzet.com>
