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Just curious, has anyone used Butterfly Net render? It supports maya, xsi, max etc....
http://www.liquiddreamsolutions.com/html/bnr_pro5.html
On 7/5/07, Jan Hektor <jan(at)nhb.de> wrote:
Holger, all in all RR a definitely great piece of software. I'll
gladly second the notions here that its simple to set up, fully
featured and very reliable in production.
The quick access to all interface components is certainly vital.
Perhaps in that regard classic ui elements like draggable column/row
dividers or even expandable titlebar blocks might be a suggestion to
optimise available screen real estate.
Looking forward to what you come up with next.
Jan
Quoting Schoenberger <XSI(at)digidragon.de>:
>
> 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 Schönberger
> 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:
>> > >
>> > > 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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