1 - Render Passes Partitions 2 - *ICE* 3 - UI in general: specially the Render Tree 4 - Animation Toolset 5 - Not intuitive. Most people learn XSI faster than they learn Maya.
J On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Christopher Crouzet < christopher.crou...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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> > >
