Defining better would be quite an exercise so if the question is serious I would invite Autodesk to form a product experts team, bring the best XSI artists to the table and formalise how Maya should evolve to make it usable.
I would happily be part of it if you really are interested but I will charge the normal daily rate as it will take too much of my time. Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 15 Jul 2014, at 18:22, Eric Mootz <e...@mootzoid.com> wrote: > He, he, the owner of a restaurant that serves healthy food containing > everything the body needs (calories, vitamines etc.) but that looks, tastes > and smeels bad, must not be surprised if people complain :) > > Seriously, the problem is not the functionality, it is the usability, the > "look and feel". > > I am aware that making a "pretty UI" is - at least from a programmer's stand > point, not a "cool" challenge, but having nice and meaningful colors, good > drag and drop functionality, text instead of ugly icons and all the other > nice little things as one finds in the ICE Tree or Modo's schematic view make > a huge difference for the paying (!) customer, i.e. the gals and guys that > spend hours and hours using the app. > That's what makes Softimage so special: it just feels right and it actually > is a real pleasure to do things, even complicated things. One truly has the > feeling that somebody sat down and thought about how to implement something > and - most importantly - how to make the user interaction as pleasant and > intuitive as possible. Not saying that XSI is perfect, but it definitely is a > software made by people who actually cared about it and wanted to make > something good. > > Isn't the Softimage crew working on Maya now??? C'mon, guys, you did such an > outstanding job on Softimage, do the same for Maya: make it a software one > loves and likes! > > > Am 15.07.2014 17:07, schrieb Luc-Eric Rousseau: >> Define "make it better"? >> >> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Eric Mootz<e...@mootzoid.com> wrote: >>> Thanks, guys. >>> I had already used the node editor in Maya 2014 and yes, it is far better >>> than the hypergraph, but still... it's not good at all. Had hoped that they >>> would make that better, but no. >>> >
