Even ICE Trees get messy.
As for Modo, if you have a noodle circling back in Z fashion and it's
distracting you (it bothers me too), you can select that channel in the
node and RMB and choose 'Separate Channel' and it will break that
channel out into a new node. It's still pointing to the same item, but
now you have that channel as its own node and can move it downstream so
things are easier to read. I do that all the time.
-Tim
On 5/7/2014 9:39 AM, Paul Griswold wrote:
I wasn't really talking about the example, but instead the way they've
decided to set up their connections. It often ends up a spaghetti
mess of wires that make circular connections with the wires running
behind nodes. I don't see the logic in it. Maybe I just like clean
layouts. :-)
I'm open to new ideas and ways of doing things, but it just seemed
weird that no other node-based system creates these looped connections
because infinite loops are bad (I understand they're not really
infinite loops, but they visually appear to be) and again, it makes
for a very sloppy graph.
-Paul
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On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Angus Davidson
<angus.david...@wits.ac.za <mailto:angus.david...@wits.ac.za>> wrote:
Ones mans circular is another mans intuitive. ;) To me I found the
example easy to follow and to duplicate and understand what was
going on. That begin said a lot of it is down to putting what you
are used to on the shelf for a bit and really diving in. It was
only once I did that did I understand just how flexible it is.
Your never going to innovate if your always trying to put
everything in the same container, or doing things the same way.
From: Paul Griswold <pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com
<mailto:pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com>>
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Date: Wednesday 07 May 2014 at 4:22 PM
To: "softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com>"
<softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
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Subject: Re: softimage to modo
What do you guys think of Modo's nodal deformer layout? I just
looked at that growing vine tutorial page and the splash page for
the video shows exactly what I personally dislike. Their node
connections seem to be really sloppy and IMHO could lead to a
confusing mess pretty quickly. They've got connections that make
circular loops, so there's no left to right or top to bottom flow
like you'd have in pretty much every other node-based system I've
used.
I mentioned it during Brad's webinar and he kind-of brushed it
off, but I find it really distracting.
-Paul
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