different strokes for different folks really.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pierre Schiller Sent: 21 February 2017 13:38 To: Official Softimage Users Mailing List. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/xsi_list <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Opinion gathering I can't see how a bunch of "wanna be solidworks software" copycats from autodesk can manage to live longer than Softimage, given those 3d/cad/design softwares can do half of what softimage does. Please someone explain that.... Seriously. On Feb 21, 2017 8:16 AM, "Mirko Jankovic" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: In short, Houdini and Redshift - Perfect Match :) As honestly I haven't seen better support then RS team even so they are rather small compared to.. well every other :) Guys are simply amazing and now their magic mixed with Houdini magic.. may be just one thing that pushes the rest of SI people there as well.. I know I'm digging tutorials at the moment in between projects and waiting for h16. Btw when is it online? when when when, it is 21st today ᐧ On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Gerbrand Nel <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Dude, I'm one guy with 2 indie licenses,... from Africa... I think opening my mail costs them more than my business is worth to them. And yet, some time last year I asked about something that bothered me.. 2 days later it was in a daily build. I'm sure it was a simple thing for them to change, but the point I'm trying to make is: THEY GIVE A SHIT!!!! This is something we are not used to thanks to years of abuse from autodesk. Send your suggestions!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3c_pJ_CLJQ G On 2017/02/21 1:14 PM, Felix Geremus wrote: I will try. But honestly, given your background and mine (and the number of licenses involved) I don't have very high expectations of being heard very soon. Also I think it will be hard for them to make such fundamental changes like completely revamping hotkey behavior, without pissing off their established user base, no matter how reasonable the changes might be. But let's see, maybe I will be surprised. 2017-02-21 12:04 GMT+01:00 Jordi Bares <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >: 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] <mailto:[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/ 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/#%21forum/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 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. 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