Re: sacrilegous? insulting the gods?

["Tim Leydecker" <BauerOink(at)gmx.de>]

It seems someone had allready mentioned the problems that
pop-up when combining the XSI-thumbnailview with versioning
of, let´s say something like textures, where incremental saves
don´t neccessarily mean *sequence* but revision mostly.

I like the idea of having the option to either view sequences
colapsed into one thumbnail or view each/select *sequence* seperately,
which seems to work allready (I did it but can´t reproduce it in plain 
words).

I´ll usually also incrementally name/save testrenderings, even adding
_occ/_spec to their names when doing singleimages precomp/tweaks
or tests of settings (which is not ideal, I know, since the scenefile won´t
change accordingly...umhm, should at least use *export shader* more...)


Cheers

tim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "kim aldis" <kim(at)cg-soup.com>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 9:43 PM
Subject: RE: sacrilegous? insulting the gods?


> you can add favourites, doesn't that work for you?
>
>
>  _____
>
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf 
> Of
> Gene Crucean
> Sent: 30-December-2005 20:24
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: sacrilegous? insulting the gods?
>
>
> One small beef I have with xsi's implementation is that the paths button 
> is
> way up in the upper right while all the other similar buttons are upper
> left, which creates a lot of back and forth mouse movement. IMO, paths
> should be upper left.
>
> I also would LOVE it if the paths button was customizable. As in the 
> paths,
> not the button itself.
>
>
>
>
> On 12/30/05, Thomas Helzle < xsi(at)screendream.de 
> <mailto:xsi(at)screendream.de>
> > wrote:
>
> Sorry, no, it is more a tool for normal windows users and those don't need
> that feature very often ;-)
> Because of that, I normally had each sequence in it's own folder...
> But with XSI not having something like .rpf or layered .psd like 
> lightwave,
> I start to have the same issue, since it is annoying to have that many
> folders for each pass... :-(
> But maybe you can use the XSI file dialogue and drag and drop the 
> sequences
> to fusion?
> ...Replace explorer.exe as default windows surface with xsi.exe ;-) >LOL<
>
> Best regards and a good 2006 to everyone.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Thomas Helzle
>
>
> On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 18:13:03 +0100, kim aldis <kim(at)cg-soup.com> wrote:
>
> > Does it group numbered sequences of files? I've recently started to use
> > Fusion and if there's one thing that drives me completely up the wall 
> > it's
> > sifting through thousands of files every time I want to find a clip to
> > import.
> >
> > > -----Original Message----- 
> > > From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
> > > [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Thomas Helzle
> > > Sent: 30-December-2005 16:05
> > > To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> > > Subject: Re: sacrilegous? insulting the gods?
> > >
> > > I also happen to not like the XSI file browser. :-)
> > >
> > > I use FileEx (http://www.cottonwoodsw.com/) on Windows for
> > > years now, and it gives you a large file window, all the
> > > windows functionality, predefinable sorting (I use "by date"
> > > with new files on top), default to detail view, "Open in last
> > > folder used" (by app or dialogue), and four dropdowns at the
> > > bottom with recent files and recent folders used - as well
> > > for the current app as for all apps - and two favourite dropdowns too.
> > >
> > > The XSI dialogue may be better as the default windows one,
> > > but since you are forced to use it, you have no choise to use
> > > other tools either. I miss a lot of the right-click tools...
> > >
> > > I also miss the directory dropdown from the default windows
> > > dialogue and network access is a pain for me in XSI, since it
> > > doesn't show the network places shortcuts I use in every
> > > other software...
> > >
> > > I don't think the XSI file dialogue should be removed, but
> > > made an option.
> > >
> > > Just my two cents,
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Thomas Helzle
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