Hey guys, I am biting the bullet and transitioning our pipeline over to Maya with the support of Fabric a lot of our RnD Development.
I have a few questions that I can't seem to find concrete answers for that I was hoping you guys could help me out with, I know that this is a Softimage mailing list, but because of that I expect that you guys will have the context necessary to help me out. Here are my questions 1. Is there an equivalent to Models in Maya? How do they encapsulate rigs and assets? I have looked at the Assets feature that came out in Maya 2011 and there is some pretty impressive stuff in there, but it seems that none of the big studios are using that. Are the studios simply using Namespaces? Cuss that seems pretty horrible. 2. Referencing seems much weaker in Maya, I guess that there is no Delta. If not, where is the Delta information stored? My friend Daniele says that it's just nodes in the scene, and is saved with the scene. Is there no centralised menu or place where I can find the connections to the scene and the referenced object, basically... is there ANYTHING like a delta? 3. Is it worth me learning Pymel? I have started and it seems pretty easy to transition over. The syntax is actually pretty simple. But the studios that I'm talking to seem to all use the native Python integration. Thanks in advance for any information shared. best, Enrique
