Maybe it is the workflow of the documentation and how it is differently organized. For example:
Not being able to highlight a command in Maya and hit F1 like you can in Softimage or Maya not having an equivalent to the SDK explorer like we do in Softimage Or perhaps that Maya's documentation is just a dump list of alphabetized commands rather than a hierarchically structured hyperlinked description of the objects and how they relate to each other Or the fact that there are several different API's (two for python) which is confusing as heck for our programmer to deal with Or maybe that all of feels like a kluged conglomeration rather than a well thought out cohesive system...whether or not Maya *is* or *isn't* is not what I am commenting on...the fact is that is *feels* like it has been hacked together. On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Luc-Eric Rousseau <luceri...@gmail.com> wrote: > In my experience, everyone complains about documentation, and I've > also read complaints about the Softimage documentation being terrible. > I've been a customer of the Maya user guide, and I've found it good, > what did you not find? What does a "overhaul" mean and what would it > look like? I find the user documentation between the two products is > very similar. > > On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Leendert A. Hartog <hirazib...@live.nl> > wrote: > > Just as a deliberately annoying side-note: improvements and humanization > > efforts for Maya are obviously more than welcome, but the easiest way to > > make Maya more easily accessible would be IMHO a thorough and thus > > fundamental overhaul of the documentation. Softimage might have been less > > capable than Maya in some respects, but it's documentation has always > been > > "rock-solid". Which, I add for dramatic effect, the Maya documentation > > isn't. And sadly that make a significant - often underappreciated - > > difference when having to work with the software, especially when > starting > > out to do so. > > > > Greetz > > Leendert > > > > -- > > > > Leendert A. Hartog AKA Hirazi Blue > > Administrator NOT the owner of si-community.com > > > -- -=T=-
