RE: is Behavior a good option?

Date : Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:37:35 -0000
To : <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
From : "kim aldis" <xsi(at)kim-aldis.co.uk>
Subject : RE: is Behavior a good option?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> Behalf Of Francois Lord
> Sent: 28 November 2007 15:12
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: is Behavior a good option?
> 
> That's the biggest difference between Massibe and Behavior.
> In Behavior, you must script EVERYTHING. 

> 
> But if you do it only once a year, you forget parts of it and
> you must do it all over again.
> 
> 

[kim:-] 

Francois is absolutely right on both these points.

In fact, the scripting of the crowd motion was for me not that hard. The
really tough bit, though, was getting a reasonable pipeline for the process
you go through for putting together the XSI and the Behaviour bit and the
rendering thereof. The way it's handled now is kludgy to the point of being
almost pointless. If you find yourself going through a dev loop, which you
will do, either creative or technical you'll find this a major problem it
being both slow and error-prone. If you're working with a client think of
good explanations when he asks you why he has to wait a day or more to see
small changes and why sometimes there's nothing for him to see because it
broke. A simple 'it's the software's fault' doesn't work; you, after all,
chose to use it. :-)

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