Well, we will have to agree to disagree then. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder; you may see Maya little pony...but all I see is a sow dressed up like a trollop--not a pretty picture ;)
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't think that Leendert meant the SDK doc, but personally I'm more > at ease with the Maya one and I love that full page index of commands > vs the command index in the softimage. I also recall the softimage > class SDK doc search also had a c# obsession in my days. ;) I do spent > a lot of time in the Maya doc, including fixing some bits of it that > are not clear to me when I find them. > > On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Eric Turman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Maybe it is the workflow of the documentation and how it is differently > > organized. For example: > > > > Not being able to highlight a command in Maya and hit F1 like you can in > > Softimage > > > > or Maya not having an equivalent to the SDK explorer like we do in > Softimage > > > > Or perhaps that Maya's documentation is just a dump list of alphabetized > > commands rather than a hierarchically structured hyperlinked description > of > > the objects and how they relate to each other > > > > Or the fact that there are several different API's (two for python) > which is > > confusing as heck for our programmer to deal with > > > > Or maybe that all of feels like a kluged conglomeration rather than a > well > > thought out cohesive system...whether or not Maya is or isn't is not > what I > > am commenting on...the fact is that is feels like it has been hacked > > together. > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Luc-Eric Rousseau <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> In my experience, everyone complains about documentation, and I've > >> also read complaints about the Softimage documentation being terrible. > >> I've been a customer of the Maya user guide, and I've found it good, > >> what did you not find? What does a "overhaul" mean and what would it > >> look like? I find the user documentation between the two products is > >> very similar. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > > -=T=- > -- -=T=-
