1. Scene Explorer which is great for scene assembly, more intuitive, cleaner and fast, also helps setting up passes faster while maya Outliner is as close as bad as 3dsMax's Object lister, both quite limited compared to XSI's 2. It has a good and efficient construction stack which works!!! (Maya's is just a joke or non existent) 3. Easy, complete and reliable pass system ( I did Lighting in Maya's for a few years and its pass system has many flaws) 4. Good rigging tools like Gator, ShapeManager, EnvelopeWeighting (I'm sure there are more but I'm not a rigger, I did heard many riggers saying maya's weight painting is not as good as XSI's and I'm sure there are more arguments in this field) 5. ICE to rule it all (there are so many things you can do with ICE but I think the best is the fact ICE is great for fixing any issue quickly that can come up in your production, thus making it a perfect feature to make XSI as complete as it is)
To sum it up Softimage is more financial efficient than Maya because it does more and faster with less TDs, although this is an argument that I would be a bit reluctant to bring up to Autodesk since their purpose is to sell more seats not less. The thing is, imho, with Softimage, any small to medium shop has more chances of surviving financially than it has if its using Maya, but I'm sure you already know that if you have Maya experience. Good luck with your call or meeting On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Eugen Sares <sof...@mail.sprit.org> wrote: > 1 - UI: clean, UNCLUTTERED, TEXT-BASED (I just hate gaudy, kitchy > icons!!!!!), intuitive, consistent. Multi-PPGs, supra/sticky keys, all the > small goodies (MMB etc), ... > 2 - scene interaction: almost no viewport clutter, clean snapping, perfect > working pivot, perfect selection engine, ... > 3 - modeling tools that simply work the way you would expect, clean and > logic subdivision surfaces > 4 - operator stack / non-linear workflow > 5 - render passes > ... > (I leave ICE out here, because it's just obvious, and who knows what > Bifröst is going to be) > > > > ------------------------------ > <http://www.avast.com/> > > Diese E-Mail ist frei von Viren und Malware, denn der avast! > Antivirus<http://www.avast.com/>Schutz ist aktiv. > >
