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I'm a "new school" XSI user, coming from Lightwave and other software that uses the modifier keys for navigation (Lightwave all of them) and like Alan Jones said: it is the most horrible waste of modifier keys I've ever seen. I never realized it back then, but part of what makes Lightwave so clumsy to use is that all the modifiers are taken already. Now with XSI, I can supra-hold V for move, add ALT for moving the temporary pivot and add CTRL to make it snap to the grid comfortably. Or my maybe most used/loved key of all times: select loops with just pressing ALT while selecting an edge/two polys, and add SHIFT or CTRL to add, toggle or remove loops...
And since those keys are so consistent throughout the software, I just can't stand navigating any other app anymore - mostly they don't even allow maping navigation to "normal" keys... ;-)
I think S is brilliant. :-)
And I also think that ALT navigation was simply easier to implement back in the day...
I doubt there is a really "deep" reason behind it.... ;-)
Just my personal feelings though :-)
Cheers,
Thomas
On Feb 1, 2008 5:40 PM, Gene Crucean < emailgeneonthelist(at)gmail.com> wrote:
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 relatively mimics 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
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