Ugh...I really hope Autodesk is taking notes on the pain we're
enduring switching over...I doubt it though. I'll die before I use
Maya or Max as much as Soft. Its so friggin stupid that we have to
take a major step down in day to day routine stuff and hunt for
work-arounds, hacks, scripts, etc. just to do something simple. I can
tear through stuff in Soft with ease that I KNOW I can't do in Maya
or Max as quickly. When I'm in a hurry I'm connecting, overriding,
layering like a mad-man....getting sh!t done...and on time while my
Maya/Max brethren is taking their time trying to find the "best"
plugin or script to do what I did in 2 seconds. End rant.
Kris
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Marco Peixoto <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I think i explained why by default its like that, unless you are
animating thing with a keyframe here and there and have your
animation be dictated by the Curve "Tension" instead of having
your animation be dictated by what you really key, then yes
unlocking the tangents is the best way to go, but if you want
full control then not really, of course this varies with
preferences, I prefer to have my overshoots keyed and relying on
curves with handles pulled, if I need to shift poses around my
overshoots are always like i made them and not what the curve
interpolation managed to do.
Anyway unlocking the Curves its a simple click and you can even
do it on Maya preferences:
Preferences---Animation---Uncheck the Weighted Tangents (and use
Spline not Auto).
My explanation on why I break the handles its because on simple
bouncing objects its faster to break the Tangents and use it like
that instead of making 2 extra keys, but its the rare occasion I
break them and if timming adjusting is needed i will loose time
trying to find the same "tension" values again.
Its all workflow preferences, I use some scripts in Maya (that I
only use for Character Animation) and have colleagues that dont
use a single script and animate all day long with vanilla out of
the shelf Maya.
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Artur Woźniak
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Not that I am using or will be in the near future (Autodesk
product that is), but I'd rather have option to lock it if
necessary rather than having to unlock it every time i need
it. Knowing what you doing with handles is advisable if you
animating, so I don't see the point of having them locked by
default.
Artur
2015-02-13 12:11 GMT+01:00 Marco Peixoto <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>:
Maya Graph is a bit different (but not that much) than
XSi one, we need to select the handles to move them
opposed to Xsi where we just drag them, maybe you have
the Handles locked (always same lenght), which is
advisable, unless you know what you are doing and really
want to mess with them. Why is it advisable, because when
animating and having lots of keys when you change things
and make a new Key between two other keys or shift keys
around, the handle stays the same and the curve info is
what you defined early, so its you in control of the
curve, with free handles everything goes whacky if you
insert new keys or shift frames.
Usually the only times I unlock the Handles is if Im
animating Bouncing Motions and I break the handles so i
can make the contacts sharper.
If you can or want, take a look at the How To Cheat in
Maya book, the Graph section will tell you a lot of Maya
Graph and you don't need extra Graph scripts that are a
clutter mess IMO.
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Cesar Saez
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
What about select a handle and middle click dragging?
(a quite common pattern in Maya)
I don't want to be that guy, but this is not the
right attitude to learn anything! I don't like Maya
and I've been frustrated using it as much as any
softimage user out there, but hey! it's time to get
over it and move forward... just saying.
Best luck,
Cesar
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 9:25 PM, Laurence Dodd
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Your right, I should be more specific.
When I'm in Soft, I can grab a key or tangent and
move or pull it without have to go to any menu
options, I find it frustrating to constantly
having to go to the move key tool or to free
weights and unlock things, it's just the way I
work, I'm sure it's good in many other ways. What
I would like to find out is is there a way of
having this behavior in maya as default. I find
that there is some consistency, real or
perceived, in key moving behaviour, sometimes you
can move stuff, sometimes you have to go to the
menus.
I am only a few days into Maya, so I feel like
I'm floundering around, which isnt fun.
