It took me a while to figure out how to change the render options for a bunch of passes which was much simpler in 5.11. Having found the widget to localise the global mr props to a pass (in itself a good thing, I like the global and local ideas) I felt better as it was me not looking properly rather than the functionality not being there.
I would say however that the interface side of it still needs work, eg - when you click on a pass I want to see all the properties associated with that pass. Now I have to expand the pass in the explorer to get to the property widget, 2 clicks instead of one, which slows down my workflow. I don't doubt for a minute that the under the hood changes are going to make life easier but it now seems like I have four windows instead of one. The render manager I assume is an addon to help with the fact that rendering options have got more spread out but I still can't tweak multiple passes with it.
I'm certainly not wanting to be down on soft at all and I realise that there will be both a learning curve for people like me and perhaps a v6.1 at some point. I'm always excited by a new release and everyone at soft deserves a pat on the back.
I'm going to make a chicken stew now....
Andi
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM]On Behalf
Of Luc-Eric Rousseau
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:54 PM
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: RE: The new render options setup
well don't hesitate to suggest ways to simplify
things anyway for more trivial scenario. We've
added the Render Manager addon to regroup
things a bit
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
> [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM]On Behalf
> Of Kim Aldis
> Posted At: Thursday, January 11, 2007 11:51 AM
> Posted To: xsi
> Conversation: The new render options setup
> Subject: RE: The new render options setup
>
>
> Even setting up relatively few passes could get messy
> pre-5.11. I've got
> render options setup scripts scattered over half the planet,
> although I'm
> pretty pleased now that they're completely obsolete.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> > Behalf Of Francois Lord
> > Sent: 11 January 2007 16:43
> > To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> > Subject: Re: The new render options setup
> >
> > They _are_ more complicated. But they're also more logical, and they
> > allow more.
> > I'm currently working on stereoscopic previz shots. I have to render
> > two passes with exactly the same render options except for
> the camera.
> > The new options make it much more easier to manage.
> >
> > Andi Farhall wrote:
> > >
> > > 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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