Do it please, these things are hard to explain and Softimage is so well fine tuned in this respect I believe there is lot to learn from it. Make sure you do that because they are in a huge drive to usability in the viewport.
They have improved it a lot in H16 but I am sure there is more to do.. Then of course is the factor of being used to and you, l like me, will get used to the idiosyncrasies but it is a this moment that you are not 100% comfortable that is the most valuable. Cheers jb > On 21 Feb 2017, at 10:45, Felix Geremus <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey Tim, I know the Entagma Video (and all the others, amazing tutorials). It > helps a little bit. But I think it's funny that even during the tutorial he > frequently runs into similar problems I'm experiencing. Like the near > clipping plane constantly broken, having to reset the view because something > is off, difficulties to select stuff.... > > Jordi, I will try to send my issues to SideFX as soon as I have some time. > > I think the main problem is a completely awkward combination of shortcuts > behaving differently when different tools are active and even worse when my > cursor is in different parts of the layout. For example the nasty Esc key > puts me into view mode. Now in view mode the 1,2,3,4 keys change my current > view, while in select mode I switch between components. When I'm hovering the > network view 1 shows/hides the selected node. > Or I really like the Y key to Ghost or Hide other Objects. But the shortcut > only works while I'm in view mode, in select mode or while hovering the > network view nothing happens, in edit mode though it toggles through my > transform gizmos. This is madness! A shortcut should bring me into the > desired mode (select, edit, view) not require me hit another shortcut in > advance to behave the way I want it. Ok I'll end it here :) > > > > 2017-02-21 0:30 GMT+01:00 Tim Bolland <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>: > Hey Felix, I know what you mean and I still have some reservations about it > as a pure get-things-done-dirty moddler and scene assembler. Although I'm > hoping I just need to learn more to get comfortable with it. > > However this video might help a bit wth selections and the scene model. > > http://www.entagma.com/select-and-navigate/ > <http://www.entagma.com/select-and-navigate/> > > Cheers, > > Tim. > From: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Felix Geremus > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > Sent: 20 February 2017 23:04:40 > To: Official Softimage Users Mailing List. > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/xsi_list > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/xsi_list> > Subject: Re: Opinion gathering > > I am on the Houdini train for a couple of months now. And I really like it > for the most part, especially the more technical aspects are incredible and > way better than Softimage ever was. But I am still confused by all the praise > for Houdini in certain areas like poly modeling or scene assembly. I'm still > learning (and I'm on my own) so there is a high chance that I might do > something wrong. But as an example I think the selection and interaction > model is a complete mess. Quickly selecting and modifying geometry, like in > Soft or even Maya is still almost impossible, at least for me. I can't see > anybody doing some serious modeling inside this tool. H16 seems to be a step > in the right direction, but especially for those "get it done as quick and > dirty as possible" type of jobs, I still don't think it's the right tool. For > everything else it's definitely the way forward. > > 2017-02-20 17:11 GMT+01:00 Oscar Juarez <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>: > Houdini 16 launch event: > > https://vimeo.com/203373373 <https://vimeo.com/203373373> > > On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 5:05 PM, Bradley Gabe <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Any chance you could post a direct link to this screencast? > > > On Feb 19, 2017, at 9:07 AM, Jordi Bares <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > Have a look at the screencast they did.. you will see why the excitement. > > > > Interesting times ahead. > > jb > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> with "unsubscribe" in the > subject, and reply to confirm. > > > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> with "unsubscribe" in the > subject, and reply to confirm. > > > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] > <mailto:[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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