I will try. But honestly, given your background and mine (and the number of licenses involved) I don't have very high expectations of being heard very soon. Also I think it will be hard for them to make such fundamental changes like completely revamping hotkey behavior, without pissing off their established user base, no matter how reasonable the changes might be. But let's see, maybe I will be surprised.
2017-02-21 12:04 GMT+01:00 Jordi Bares <jordiba...@gmail.com>: > Do it please, these things are hard to explain and Softimage is so well > fine tuned in this respect I believe there is lot to learn from it. Make > sure you do that because they are in a huge drive to usability in the > viewport. > > They have improved it a lot in H16 but I am sure there is more to do.. > Then of course is the factor of being used to and you, l like me, will get > used to the idiosyncrasies but it is a this moment that you are not 100% > comfortable that is the most valuable. > > Cheers > jb > > On 21 Feb 2017, at 10:45, Felix Geremus <felixgere...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > Hey Tim, I know the Entagma Video (and all the others, amazing tutorials). > It helps a little bit. But I think it's funny that even during the tutorial > he frequently runs into similar problems I'm experiencing. Like the near > clipping plane constantly broken, having to reset the view because > something is off, difficulties to select stuff.... > > Jordi, I will try to send my issues to SideFX as soon as I have some time. > > I think the main problem is a completely awkward combination of shortcuts > behaving differently when different tools are active and even worse when my > cursor is in different parts of the layout. For example the nasty Esc key > puts me into view mode. Now in view mode the 1,2,3,4 keys change my current > view, while in select mode I switch between components. When I'm hovering > the network view 1 shows/hides the selected node. > Or I really like the Y key to Ghost or Hide other Objects. But the > shortcut only works while I'm in view mode, in select mode or while > hovering the network view nothing happens, in edit mode though it toggles > through my transform gizmos. This is madness! A shortcut should bring me > into the desired mode (select, edit, view) not require me hit another > shortcut in advance to behave the way I want it. Ok I'll end it here :) > > > > 2017-02-21 0:30 GMT+01:00 Tim Bolland <tim_boll...@hotmail.co.uk>: > >> Hey Felix, I know what you mean and I still have some reservations about >> it as a pure get-things-done-dirty moddler and scene assembler. Although >> I'm hoping I just need to learn more to get comfortable with it. >> >> However this video might help a bit wth selections and the scene model. >> >> http://www.entagma.com/select-and-navigate/ >> >> Cheers, >> >> Tim. >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com < >> softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com> on behalf of Felix Geremus < >> felixgere...@googlemail.com> >> *Sent:* 20 February 2017 23:04:40 >> *To:* Official Softimage Users Mailing List. >> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/xsi_list >> *Subject:* Re: Opinion gathering >> >> I am on the Houdini train for a couple of months now. And I really like >> it for the most part, especially the more technical aspects are incredible >> and way better than Softimage ever was. But I am still confused by all the >> praise for Houdini in certain areas like poly modeling or scene assembly. >> I'm still learning (and I'm on my own) so there is a high chance that I >> might do something wrong. But as an example I think the selection and >> interaction model is a complete mess. Quickly selecting and modifying >> geometry, like in Soft or even Maya is still almost impossible, at least >> for me. I can't see anybody doing some serious modeling inside this tool. >> H16 seems to be a step in the right direction, but especially for those >> "get it done as quick and dirty as possible" type of jobs, I still don't >> think it's the right tool. For everything else it's definitely the way >> forward. >> >> 2017-02-20 17:11 GMT+01:00 Oscar Juarez <tridi.animei...@gmail.com>: >> >>> Houdini 16 launch event: >>> >>> https://vimeo.com/203373373 >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 5:05 PM, Bradley Gabe <witha...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Any chance you could post a direct link to this screencast? >>>> >>>> > On Feb 19, 2017, at 9:07 AM, Jordi Bares <jordiba...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> > >>>> > Have a look at the screencast they did.. you will see why the >>>> excitement. >>>> > >>>> > Interesting times ahead. >>>> > jb >>>> ------ >>>> Softimage Mailing List. >>>> To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com >>>> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >>>> >>> >>> >>> ------ >>> Softimage Mailing List. >>> To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com >>> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >>> >> >> >> ------ >> Softimage Mailing List. >> To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com >> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >> > > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com > with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. > > > > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com > with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >
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