As they said so many times so far they don;t have intention to make Maya more into Softimage....
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 7:39 PM, Jordi Bares <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > [email protected] > > On 15 Jul 2014, at 18:22, Eric Mootz <[email protected]> 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<[email protected]> 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. > >>> > > > > >
