Well for now, I think Maya capitalised a big deal on GPU Caches (built on top of alembic), a really scalable solution for massive pipelines. Assemblies are also a great boon for scalability.
On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 9:22 PM, Greg Punchatz <[email protected]> wrote: > I have found the videos helpful, the workflow ones are a bit better about > showing how to work around some of maya's weaknesses and even showing some > of it's advantages. > > We still have not made the leap to anything other than soft for our main > work, but I spend every free moment of my day getting my head wrapped > around each apps strengths and weaknesses. > > Chris, I like the really like way modo "thinks", seems very well thought > out IMO. It lacks a lot of features and most notably speed, but it is > impossible to ignore for modeling and asset creation. I really with they > could crack the speed barrier. > > Maya has some really great features and scales well. Autodesk much to my > surprise is making big strides in making it less of a mess from the > surface, the interface is much improved, they have added many of the main > features I had in xsi since day one. Although I keep hitting rude reminders > of the reasons I did not go to Maya in the first place, there is still way > too many times when you have to write a command to do a basic task. Between > that and how difficult it is to rig in maya vs soft I still am having > trouble with the idea of moving us to maya but it is getting more likely. > Fabric might ease the pain, but I need to look deeper. > > I am still looking at all the other apps too, I see splitting our pipeline > up in the future between many apps. I keep hoping someone will make a BIG > stride in character animation and rigging in a stand alone app, Fabric is > almost there, it just needs an interface for animating. > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 5:26 AM, Chris Marshall <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> Excellent, I'll take a look. Any chance of turning on 'Complete Softimage >> Interface and Toolset' too!? >> >> On 14 July 2016 at 11:24, Oscar Juarez <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> You can turn off the tumbling of the camera in Modo, in the preferences >>> Display/OpenGL/Viewport Rotation turn off Trackball rotation. >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 12:09 PM, Chris Marshall < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Been playing with Modo but as soon as you move the camera around, it >>>> goes skew! I hate that! >>>> Sorry gone off at a tangent there. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 14 July 2016 at 10:37, Thomas Volkmann <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Haha.... I probably would have cried tears of despair as well, but >>>>> since we are working with Max here my bar for expectations was already at >>>>> the lowest point. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Alok Gandhi <[email protected]> hat am 14. Juli 2016 um 10:50 >>>>> geschrieben: >>>>> >>>>> It is more like 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'. ;) if you know what I >>>>> mean (Figure out the comparisons yourselves) >>>>> ------ >>>>> Softimage Mailing List. >>>>> To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] >>>>> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ------ >>>>> Softimage Mailing List. >>>>> To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] >>>>> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Chris Marshall >>>> Mint Motion Limited >>>> 029 20 37 27 57 >>>> 07730 533 115 >>>> www.mintmotion.co.uk >>>> www.dot3d.com >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ------ >>>> Softimage Mailing List. >>>> To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] >>>> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >>>> >>> >>> >>> ------ >>> Softimage Mailing List. >>> To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] >>> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Chris Marshall >> Mint Motion Limited >> 029 20 37 27 57 >> 07730 533 115 >> www.mintmotion.co.uk >> www.dot3d.com >> >> >> >> ------ >> Softimage Mailing List. >> To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] >> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >> > > > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] > with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. > --
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