Re: Coming back from Maya ( keymaps)

[Adam Sale <adamsale(at)shaw.ca>]

I've dropped ZOP'ing in the last while, though old habits die hard and I Z in orthos and P in perspective.. yeah.. yeah.. I know P in perspective haha..

 

I've hybridized the two. I do find myself ALting more and more, but the thing I don't like is how when doing things like painting weights or smoothing, alt for smoothing becomes unusable and smooth painting is not an option to key map.

 

I like the space bar, using f12 to max min viewports is soo unrealistic unless your hands ar as big as Shaq's or you WANT some form of rsi

 

I have a hybrid keymap I've built that I think is the best of both worlds. For the last training project I did with Avid, I broke down the keymap between Maya and XSI respectively and torched all of the old, or useless key bindings.

 

For Maya, accesssing components using the function keys is too out of the way, and XSI's raycasting hotkeys are in the perfect place re: accessibility.

O and P in XSI are moot if you use the S key to nav, so I got rid of those. Because I use WER more and more for transforms, I had to move the edge select tool over to O and point select to P.

 

P for parenting if using the QWERTY toolset is one dimensional, so '?' wins out for me to parent. I like parenting functionality in XSI, and for the life of me don't know why I scream like I've been sacked every time I try to parent things in maya.

 

Painting in QWERTY is not even assigned, but the B key with the QWERTY tools is free, so B and CTRL  B are assigned for brush properties.

 

anyways, if anyone is interested, I have an addon for what I perceive to be the most efficient binding for both Maya and XSI users assuming they are using QWERTY and Alt for base control.

 

Of course, these only reflect my opinion, and I'd be interested in seeing what others have hacked out.

 

Adam

 

 

 

----- Original Message -----
From: Gene Crucean <emailgeneonthelist@gmail.com>
Date: Friday, February 1, 2008 8:49 am
Subject: Re: Coming back from Maya
To: XSI@Softimage.COM

> Can I ask why you old school Soft users think the native
> interaction model
> is better than every other piece of software out there that all
> relativelymimics the same qwerty setup?
>
> I'm looking for solid reasons why it's *better*. Is it faster
> because you
> guys are so hardcore that you don't even use a mouse...
> therefore freeing up
> your right hand for O,P usage? ;)
>
> I'm calling you guys out. XSI dragging along the old Soft
> mindset just
> further alienates potential users from hopping on board. IMO, SI
> would be
> better off in the long run if in V7 they just dropped it and
> kept the qwerty
> setup as default. Maybe drop it completely from the software but
> offer the
> keymap as a download from the site... at least until the "old
> dogs" retire.
>
>
> $0.02 ching ching
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 1, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Julien Stiegler
> <julien.stiegler@free.fr>wrote:
>
> > Hey eric,
> >
> > it's a great initiative to host tested/working/quality scripts
> and plugins
> > on
> > your site.
> > What about contacting ALL the xsi addons authors and ask them the
> > permissions to
> > host it on your site ?
> > I have a good collection of them but the authors still need to be
> > contacted for
> > permissions ....
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Selon Eric Thivierge <eric@xsidatabase.com>:
> >
> > > Well Kim,
> > >
> > > It's a community based site. I don't script too well myself
> so it's
> > > pretty much up to the others on the list and in the
> community to put
> > > some things on the site. The site is for hosting the files
> of various
> > > resources to get rid of the horrible "File not found"
> errors. So I
> > > counter your comment with, "Shouldn't YOU put some scripts
> in it?" :)
> > >
> > > Cheers Kim. Hope all is well.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Eric Thivierge, XSI Database Admin
> > > www.xsidatabase.com
> > > eric@xsidatabase.com
> > > Forum Username: EricTRocks
> > >
> > >
> > > kim aldis wrote:
> > > > Shouldn't you put some scripts into it? ;-)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >> -----Original Message-----
> > > >> From: owner-xsi@Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-
> xsi@Softimage.COM] On
> > > >> Behalf Of Eric Thivierge
> > > >> Sent: 01 February 2008 03:32
> > > >> To: XSI@Softimage.COM
> > > >> Subject: Re: Coming back from Maya
> > > >>
> > > >> Right on Marcus! Don't forget we have a new scripts
> section as well.
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >
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