Marco, glad you are still with us. ;-)
We don't provide specific layouts to go with the interaction modes but
it definitely makes sense to customize your layout to best suit your
working style.
In XSI we provide number of task-oriented layouts like compositing and
the tools development environment for scripting as well as layouts for
dual monitor setups and it is not too hard to customize your favorite
layout to add new elements as you have done.
Some other things that might help you in your migration back to
XSI-land...
- Under View -> Optional Panels you can turn on the Main Shelf which
will show a toolbar with one button access to some common commands
and is also customizable.
- We have tear-off menus for many things
- At the bottom right there is a KP/L tab which provides channel-box
like functionality for keying
Cheers!
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Brent
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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf
Of Marco Vitolini Naldini
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 2:28 PM
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: Coming back from Maya
Brent McPherson schrieb:
> Jeeze, you guys are going to scare off poor Marco! ;-)
Au contraire! It's quite interessting and funny too.
It's more than difficult to get old learned habits (W,E,R)
out of my brain. It's like riding a new bike, where the
steering wheel acts completely different. So, I will
reconfigure it a litte, keeping S as the navi-control.
BUT: since we are quite through with keyboard shortcuts;
how about some rant about the layout ;-)
After years of optimizing and reconfiguring the maya interface,
I would like to do similar things to the XSI-Window. For example,
I miss the outliner, where I was selecting all my objects, cameras
and so on. Since I have a 16:10 monitor, I did something like this:
<see attached picture>
Then I would like to have some less menu-digging (i.e. get sphere).
....and on and on.
So, are you working with the default layout, or do you "pimp" it
somehow too? I (and probably other too) would like to see them.
Since Softimage offers such powerfull Layout editing, it would be
sad if noone shares it. Perhaps another thing for www.xsidatabase.com?
Let the thread continue,
best wishes,
Marco
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