Thanks guys!
Not the answers I was hoping for but at least I now know :)
Love this list!
G
On 2014/06/13 12:31 PM, Mirko Jankovic wrote:
for #3 keep in mind that is NOT Scene explorer in Softimage, nor it
provides same functions so take care there.
Nodes in Maya were always kind of labyrinth to me and SI scene
explorer was fresh air giving real overview and control of everything
in scene.
That is not something you have in Maya.
Not to mention Max's new scene explorer if anyone with right mind
would even call it like that.
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Perry Harovas
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
And to show I am not just here to laugh, the answer to #2 and #3
below:
#2: No, and whats more, do not fcheck while rendering. That has
always been a sure way to kill your render. Seriously, you have to
specify the end frame
to be at least 2 or 3 frames BEFORE the current frame that is
rendering in order to not crash. Been like that ever since the
beginning. Last time I checked, it
was still a bug. Of course, it depends upon the renderer you are
using, so if you are using mental ray or (God help you) the Maya
renderer, then you cannot see it while it renders.
If you are using some other renderer with its own render viewer,
perhaps 3Delight, then you can watch it render with that
software's render viewer.
#3: You are correct, and to see more stuff, go to the top
(happily, I don't have Maya installed at the moment, so I can't
check the exact menu wording) of the Outliner and you will see
that you can enable the viewing of more
"things" in the Outliner. It defaults to simplifying your view
(which I always hated) but you can change that to show you every
ugly little node it shoves into your scene.
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 5:26 AM, Gerbrand Nel <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hey Guys
So I'm getting into Maya, and so far it's horrible.
I realize that Maya animators must be more passionate about 3D
than me, because there is no way I would have put up with this
shit for the last 10 years.
Rant aside, I was hoping someone could help me make sense of a
few things.
1: selecting hierarchies:
I don’t understand why Maya insists on making the whole
hierarchy green when I only select the top node. What is the
benefit of this, and can I turn it off?
I also find that when I select multiple objects in a
hierarchy, the second last thing I selected goes white, but
the thing I select stays green. this makes it hard to tell
weather I selected the object or not.
Am I using it wrong?
2: Is there a way to interactively see my frames rendering? I
know I can fcheck or load the rendered frames in aftreFX, but
this doesn't help if my frames takes 20 min a frame.
3: I assume the outliner is there to do what the explorer in
soft does, but half the things in my scene is missing. Is
there a comprehensive scene navigator where I can see
everything, like we can in the explorer?
Thanks, I'm going to stop here before I get on the drama-lama.
G
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