Yes, UI was always a topic.
The problem is that there are many options at the submitter.
Then each company or even render TD hides the submitter option which are not
used. So you usally have a lot of "free spaces" (there are more than 70
options/parameter/select possibilities, but the default user has only 35).
Another problem was that there are some many different kinds of options.
It is not only checkboxes and drop-down lists. There are more than
10 different
option styles only in the right options section of the submitter, usally a
program has 3-5.
There have been some changes to the UI to reduce the number of
different styles.
Or remove some buttons and place it into a menu, to get some more space for a
better UI.
But some test UI changes have been rejected from the TDs. For them it is more
important to have a fast and well-fitting access to the options.
If you do not want to configure something, you don't need then menu at all.
Everthing is in the UI, no menu, almost no tab switching. It is more designed
for fast access than for a nice look.
But suggestions are always welcome, perhaps there have been too many TDs
responsible for the UI...
Holger SchÃnberger
technical director
The day has 24 hours, if that does not suffice, I will take the night
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 at 13:05:43, Andreas Bystrom wrote:
yep the gui in RR is a real mess, looks like buttons were just added
as the idea for them came up without any real fundamental designplan.
anyway, the gui is not that important since most of the time you just
want to submit and wait for the frames to finish without any
user-interaction and for that RR has been working really well here
where I work, missing/incomplete frames are very rare and its been
overall very stable.
On 7/5/07, Jan Hektor <jan(at)nhb.de> wrote:
> thanks for the input Franky. It seems RR is the only dedicated Xsi
> solution at the moment. Just wish the poor GUI will get a makeover
> soon ;p
>
> cheers,
> Jan
>
>
> Quoting Frank Lenhard <franky(at)ixdream.com>:
>
> > i used to use smedge. now i use RR.
> > first i thought smedge is less pricey but when you get more clients
> > you soon catch up with the price. with RR the clients are much
> > cheaper, but the entry cost is step, BUT worth every penny.
> > dont bother yourself with comparing... go with RR.
> >
> >
> > ciao
> > franky
> >
> >
> > Thursday, July 5, 2007, 11:04:16 AM, you wrote:
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> > JH> Hi there,
> >
> > JH> regarding XSI 6.x - what render managers are people using in
production?
> >
> > JH> I know about RoyalRender - are there any other xsi-plugin integrated
> > JH> solutions out there? I am leaning towards Smedge3, just dont know if
> > JH> it gels with 6.x yet. We are on 5.11 at the moment.
> >
> > JH> thanks,
> > JH> Jan
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