Replying to Joey who accidentally replied only to me :)
"Right, but in my experience it offers access to materials easier than
anything else or anything from the outliner, so it is a hybrid I agree.
I walked away with the Render Tree impression because it only offers
material nodes from the Create Node dialog. I thought this was rather
short sighted as it doesn’t seem to offer math nodes or anything which
an expression could be easily constructed with which is not already in
the scene. But adding materials was really easy. It struck me as an
over-glorified visual Connection Editor. A welcome tool, but what does
it provide procedurally different than what the Connection Editor
already did?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc8lJGGqrqo
That's what I'm talking about ^^.
While that video mainly shows the material workflow, I just pulled up
Maya and plugged a locator's position into the color and it worked. Also
I hit the Tab key and typed locator and it created a locator for me.
Also if I type "add" I get an add node as well.
On 11/09/2013 1:31 PM, Mario Domingos wrote:
I worked with Maya from v1 to 9... And It was always very open, you
could always access a lot but a node editor was missing.
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On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Ponthieux, Joseph G.
(LARC-E1A)[LITES] <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
It was a vast improvement over the Connection editor and
Hypergraph. But is it, in any way, even close to being an analog
for ICE? Its seems more an analog for Render Tree than anything
else. Or is that an incorrect observation?
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I agree. Node Editor was a huge step forward.
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Eric Thivierge
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Maya Node Editor:
Well I find it kinda awesome that there are so many ports
actually. It means you can get at more of the setting and getting
data. Sure it's not as nice and smooth looking as it could be but
it's a minor point to me with respect to the amount of data you
can manipulate with it.
Eric T.
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