In all fairness, Maya GUI is much more customizable than Softimage's one... just saying.
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] < j.ponthi...@nasa.gov> wrote: > I'm not talking about zone marking menus. Custom marking menus can be > created and there are a handful of contexts that can be used. But thats not > what i'm taking about. I'm talking about the Hotbox itself. Being able to > hide some or all of it isn't sufficient. I want the ability to create > hotbox layouts,choosing only the commands i want and where they are placed > in the hotbox. The zone marking menus are an extra step beyong the hotbox, > and while they are customizable i don't care to use them. Getting to those > commands take two or three extra clicks at which point the using the hotbox > no longer interests me. > > Yeah i know i can hide a lot of the extraneous stuff in the hotbox. But i > know of no way to save that as a hotbox layout or hotbox set. Ever try to > set up a viewport layout and a hotbox layout to match? Yeah its kind of > weird. Get all fairly close to what you want, remove the hotbox file bar > and interface filebar for example and i can find no way to save the layout. > This is my point. The hotbox is a very novel idea, but its half baked and > isnt thought through to its ultimate value. > > Give me the ability to get to just the commands i want with one click the > spacebar, give me alt-spacebar to optionbox any of those commands. Then i > will be impressed. > > Joey > ________________________________________ > From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [ > softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Raffaele Fragapane [ > raffsxsil...@googlemail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 6:13 PM > To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > Subject: Re: Maya thinks they're clever....and that's the problem > > You can select what appears in the hotbox and what doesn't already, Joey, > and you can customise marking menus (which respond to gesture) which are > even quicker. > > Maya's UI is, in most places, borderline disgraceful, the hotbox and the > gesture driven contextual menus are not those places. >
