Re: The new render options setup

[Chris Marshall <chris(at)eclipsecreative.co.uk>]

I think it's just the complex visual overload you get when opening the 
render manager up.
We have 8 main menu items down the left, the Current Pass has three main 
sub-menu items across the top, with the Pass Output having a further 4 
sub-sub-menu items listed under that! Maybe it's a design thing, but 
it's not easy to see which window is open when you have three levels to 
get your head around. It's quite a lot of information to display, I'm 
just not convinced the design works.

Why do we have an Explorer in there and Preferences? Those seem like two 
unnecessary items to have in the main menu.

I *do* like the Render Channels though.


Kim Aldis wrote:
> Depends very much how you work with them Andi.  It's much more easy to get
> yourself set up in a more general way with the presets and prefs than it was
> before, for example.
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> Also, check out the use of channels in the rendertree. A lot of the stuff
> you've been doing with passes can be done more easily with channels.
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> A couple of days ago I spent some time setting up some workflow between  XSI
> and Fusion. It was pretty obvious right from the early stages that the whole
> render and channels re-write was good but it's not until I actually knuckled
> down and started to do something serious with it that it started to become
> clear just how slick it really is. The decision to rewrite couldn't have
> been easy but, for me at least, it's scoring in spades. I'd like to offer up
> a big thanks to Halfy and anyone else who was involved. It's a slick piece
> of work.
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> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of
> Andi Farhall
> Sent: 11 January 2007 09:26
> To: xsi(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: The new render options setup
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> Whilst i'm all for progress, i can't help thinking some aspects of the new
> render/scenne/pass/metalray options are a tad over complicated.More clicks -
> less work getting done perhaps.
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