/"Meanwhile, for the rest of us who don't have our own RnD departments,
XSI is great because something like ICE does empower non-programmers to
do things we couldn't do otherwise. So at least we have a fighting
chance. Compare the workability of a custom tool made by someone who
only writes code all day, versus a custom tool developed by the user in
the context of the usage. There is still a huge value to that, and
should (hopefully) continue to be a market for that."/
Amen.
Le 06/09/2012 18:34, Bradley Gabe a écrit :
Think of Maya more like a standard than an application. It's a front
end that people are already used to looking at, even though they might
be using it to drive a different "truck" on the back end. If you don't
like working within the Maya or Max environment, imagine what it was
like working in a completely proprietary environment developed by your
RnD department who was more interested in making cool effects possible
than smoothing out the GUI and user experience!
With a DCC application, you *have* to invest in the user experience
because you need to sell as many seats as possible. With a custom RnD
effort inside your studio, you don't care as much about user
experience because you have a captive "market" who is facing the
choice of "do it my way" if you even want to have a remote chance of
doing it at all.
It doesn't matter if the XSI experience is nicer for some of us. It
doesn't matter if XSI's core is more mature or potentially easier to
develop for functionality like ICE. At the end of the day, the larger
market base has built their own "trucks" and is using Maya to drive
them, and they might be starting to champ at the bit a little as their
"trucks" are needing more modern controls. XSI is not an option to
them, it's not even on the radar. The real threat is their fear of
ADSK, and the potential that they re-wire their trucks without
dependence on any DCC app.
Meanwhile, for the rest of us who don't have our own RnD departments,
XSI is great because something like ICE does empower non-programmers
to do things we couldn't do otherwise. So at least we have a fighting
chance. Compare the workability of a custom tool made by someone who
only writes code all day, versus a custom tool developed by the user
in the context of the usage. There is still a huge value to that, and
should (hopefully) continue to be a market for that.
-Bradley
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Stefan Kubicek <s...@tidbit-images.com
<mailto:s...@tidbit-images.com>> wrote:
Fair enough and agreed on, but why would Maya be a better
candidate to be developed in that direction than any other app?
