Hey, Thanks for asking!
Much of what had been said here I agree with 100 % - bullet points for me would be: * A range of filters that are pertinent to what attribute I want to inspect (materials, animated parameters etc) * A more holistic view of the Maya scene - Why do we need to open up a secondary windows like the Relationship Editor to address things like Render Layers, Partitions etc. This should be tied into a single UI with a consistent work approach. - so we should be able to filter into a Render Layer, Groups, Layers, Asset types etc. * Graphically I still find it hard to understand (at a glance) how things branch out from one another - hierarchal relationships have different shades of blue highlighted, when you hide an object it has a pale grey text associated with it - it hurts my eyes! I have to say - Softimage had a great Outliner! * No graphical element/icons to symbolise a change to an attribute - when something was hidden in Softimage, a small H represented how it was being hidden. Accessing information quickly is pretty hard in the outliner - for example - how can I quickly inspect whether a parameter has been overridden? * Organising and partitioning Character Sets, Quick selection Sets etc. so they exist under something identifiable - not flailing around at the bottom of the Outliner. Its very confusing for the students, especially with 5 or so assets in the scene * Can we see the operator stack in the Outliner? * Is it possible to show animated parameters in the Outliner? * Is it possible to drag and drop from one parameter to another to create relationships? * Middle Mouse button drags - feels very unnatural - my finger hover over the left or right mouse button, not the MMB. Its very uncomfortable to continuously use the MMB to drag objects into parenting relationships. At very least, can it be made an option? * Adding and Removing objects into sets by RMB context menu would be great (or can we do that already? Couldn't see it) * Is hiding things in the Outliner necessary? I'm not sure - is that not just a feature added because of the visual noise the outliner generates? I'm sure it stops things being changed by artists etc. but there are other way assets can be locked down right? Anyway - hope that helps. If some of things are possible, apologies - It certainly wasn't clear in the manual. Cheers Sofronis (Saf) Efstathiou Postgraduate Framework Leader and BFX Competition & Festival Director Computer Animation Academic Group National Centre for Computer Animation From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shuting Chang Sent: 26 November 2014 02:07 To: [email protected] Cc: Mark Jamieson Subject: Need your opinion to improve Maya Outliner/ Attribute Editor Hi there, I'd like to say that Maya is really moving forward. We are looking into improving Outliner and Attribute Editor. I know the strongest request is to have multiply dock-able Outliners and Attribute Editors with the function to pin to certain objects. Other than that, I won't list any thing else as I don't want to lead the direction of the discussion. How we improve the Outliner and AE is totally decided by your input. Please let us know what bothers right now and how current Outliner and AE are blocking you. Ideas and Inputs please. Thanks in advance for you help. This means tremendous for us. Shuting [http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/Images/QueensAwardLogo.jpg] BU is a Disability Two Ticks Employer and has signed up to the Mindful Employer charter. Information about the accessibility of University buildings can be found on the BU DisabledGo webpages<http://www.disabledgo.com/en/org/bournemouth-university> This email is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential information. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this email, which must not be copied, distributed or disclosed to any other person. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Bournemouth University or its subsidiary companies. Nor can any contract be formed on behalf of the University or its subsidiary companies via email.
