Re: Open letter to Autodesk

[Sylvain Lebeau]

haha!!! a llama turd!!!!!!! pouhahahahahahahahah yes of course!  But just for your record.... any third partys attributes dont show off in the attribute spreadsheet editor.... And the attributes i need to multi change are Arnold ones!!   Opacity switch on or off per exemple... Dont worry, we already have a script for this now.  I know about it and also about the channel box.  Hopefully, we've found a way to publish Arnold properties in the Attribute spreadsheet editor.  But it's not out of the box.  It took us some time to make it happen. i am not trying to remap every single steps we did in Soft to maya Raff..... i just say i miss some good old nice workflows in Soft. We are learning the proper way.  In exemple: i did not remap my shortcuts to XSI ones.. Of course softwares matters!!! ... But give me maya, modo, c4d, houdini, even blender.... and within a week or two, i will start showing you good results.   Just like you said in your post to Olivier... We need to be as much software agnostic possible. And fortunatly, my team is so agressive on this part.. They dont fear anything!! lucky me! sly Sylvain Lebeau // SHED V-P/Visual effects supervisor 1410, RUE STANLEY, 11E ÉTAGE MONTRÉAL (QUÉBEC) H3A 1P8 T 514 849-1555 F 514 849-5025 WWW.SHEDMTL.COM <http://WWW.SHEDMTL.COM> VFX Curriculum 03: Compositing Basics mail to: s...@shedmtl.com On Mar 13, 2014, at 9:44 PM, Raffaele Fragapane <raffsxsil...@googlemail.com> wrote: "So far, there are stuffs we swear at alot.... (like the unability to change attributes on multi selected objects at the same time)  What you take as normal day to day operations in Softimage then fall into Maya, you really understand you will miss something everyday. haha  And the list goes up.  But there are also nice stuffs we find out. Every packages got it's good and bad things." Just for the record, since it's not too far off topic, that to me is symptomatic of another issue I see with people migrating. The assumption that things can't be done when they are just done differently (better or worse can be argued depending on case), and a resulting reduced productivity coming from fighting a new platform instead of embracing it. While I will be the first to tell you that "embracing" Maya will frequently feel like hugging a giant llama turd, you won't get very far if you try and steer it like you did Soft. Where Soft has a greatly streamlined user experience relying on very few contextual editors and many half-arsed ones that have been rotting on the vines, Maya has a pleotra of dedicated workflows. E.G.: If you want multi-edit you use the attribute spreadsheet. The attribute editor and its constant autoswitching culling the channel box coupled with its inability to contextualize is horrible, but on the other hand where Soft's spreadsheet is barely a remnant of the SOFTIMAGE|3D days the AttrSS is functional. The notion that migrating from one software to another is just a matter of finding the same levers that have been given different names is a horrible, HORRIBLE populist notion in defense of the even more horrible argument of old that Software doesn't matter. Software does matter, and design philosophies differ massively. Don't try to remap every little step of how you operate, it might be the path of least resistance to learn a new software, but it will leave you crippled and slow. Learn how the things differ fundamentally and use each one at their best.