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On 25/03/2014 17:49, Jean-Louis Billard wrote:
Hi Shuting,
That’s not the same thing at all I’m afraid. In Softimage *every* menu has it’s
own memory of the last command accessed. So you can middle click any menu and
repeat its last command (as long as there has been one used within the session)
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On 25 Mar 2014, at 18:46, Shuting Chang <shuting.ch...@autodesk.com> wrote:
Hi Paul,
I am a design in Maya team. I am collecting the feedback from this email group
and use them to improve Maya.
I agree that Maya icons need some texts. But for “5”, in Maya we have “g” to
repeat last action. Hope this is helpful.
Thank you,
Shuting
From: Paul Griswold
<pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com<mailto:pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com>>
Reply-To: "softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com>"
<softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com>>
Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 at 12:40 PM
To: "softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com>"
<softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com>>
Subject: Re: humanize maya, SOFT top 5
I think part of the problem with a lot/all of the devs working on Maya is - you
guys use this stuff day in and day out and you already understand how & why
things are the way they are.
I would strongly urge the entire Maya team to do some real user interface &
usability testing with a 3rd party testing service. Get people from all sorts of
backgrounds and actually record them trying to use Maya to achieve specific tasks.
My gut instinct says, most of the team will be very surprised at how unintuitive
and difficult Maya is for most people that don't live in the Maya universe.
As for top 5:
1. Text based everything - I hate the shelf in Softimage as well as the UV
editor. Get rid of icons entirely.
2. Drag and drop divots & simple expressions.
3. Consistent UI - this was my last wish for Softimage. I wanted the FXTree
to be updated to match ICE and the Render Tree (and possibly the schematic view
to get updated as well). There should not be more than 1 style of graph in
Maya and all navigation should use the same mouse/key combo everywhere.
Additionally, revisit what things are named. As mentioned in a previous email
- why is there at tab called Renderer and a tab called Rendering, or a tab
called Shading and a tab called Surfaces? Maybe to long-time Maya users that
makes sense, but if you open the software for the first time, that makes
absolutely no sense at all.
4. Sticky keys.
5. Middle-click repeat the last action. I use this every day of the week.
-PG
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau
<luceri...@gmail.com<mailto:luceri...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Text not icons
I don't understand this one. Which part of the UI is this a problem
with that it isn't in Softimage?
You have the shelf at the top of the UI, but that's just shortcuts to
things that are already in the menu. Hide the shelf if you don't want
it (there is also a shelf in XSI)
For the viewport ("panel") toolbar, if you don't use it, you can hide
it (shift+ctrl+m) - these are all shortcuts to the items also in the
menu. It certainly would not make sense to turn that into text
buttons, although they should be generally fewer and bigger buttons
there.
But again these are shotcuts to the text menus. Everything is
menu-based in Maya.
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