There's neutral pose in SI. However, that ''hidden parenting'' could be a risky business, too. For example, XSI built in biped rig creator has a nasty habit to ''zero out'' the rotation of COG (hips) controller. So, by moving and keying that controller horizontally, in Animation Editor there's a slight small movement along Y axis. Or, zero Y movement in animation editor is small up - down of cog bone. Somehow contradictory, to use these hidden offsets properly, someone has to be able to visualize them. As some rule of thumb, positional offset is more or less harmless, rotational offset is ( more or less) dangerous. SI has nicely exposed options to set neutral pose only on position. In Maya world, let's say that Maya pivot is OK to use, as only positional offset. While Maya Joint Orient, as rotational offset, it is a problem in many cases - setting that thing to zero, whenever is possible, is condition for easier life...
From: Jason S <jasonsta...@gmail.com> To: Official Softimage Users Mailing List. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/xsi_list <softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2017 12:20 AM Subject: Re: Maya - what were they thinking 2 - transforms Hum. I guess these "intermediate items" are probably part of XSI's internalized abstractions (?) I'm sure there must be advantages of having it this way, (1 null (& hierarchy level) for each axis of rotation ?) but I feel that these abstractions remove quite a bit of redundancy and clutter in sometimes already quite cluttered and deep hierarchies. #yiv8349857162 #yiv8349857162 -- _filtered #yiv8349857162 {panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;} _filtered #yiv8349857162 {font-family:Calibri;panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;} _filtered #yiv8349857162 {font-family:Consolas;panose-1:2 11 6 9 2 2 4 3 2 4;} _filtered #yiv8349857162 {font-family:Candara;panose-1:2 14 5 2 3 3 3 2 2 4;}#yiv8349857162 #yiv8349857162 p.yiv8349857162MsoNormal, #yiv8349857162 li.yiv8349857162MsoNormal, #yiv8349857162 div.yiv8349857162MsoNormal {margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;color:black;}#yiv8349857162 a:link, #yiv8349857162 span.yiv8349857162MsoHyperlink {color:blue;text-decoration:underline;}#yiv8349857162 a:visited, #yiv8349857162 span.yiv8349857162MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple;text-decoration:underline;}#yiv8349857162 pre {margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:10.0pt;color:black;}#yiv8349857162 span.yiv8349857162HTMLPreformattedChar {color:black;}#yiv8349857162 span.yiv8349857162EmailStyle19 {color:#1F497D;}#yiv8349857162 .yiv8349857162MsoChpDefault {font-size:10.0pt;} _filtered #yiv8349857162 {margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}#yiv8349857162 div.yiv8349857162WordSection1 {}#yiv8349857162
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