Re: Coming back from Maya

[Marco Vitolini Naldini <mvn(at)animotion.de>]

thank you, but don't get me wrong: I have no intention to get XSI
look and work like maya. No, no! I only try to mimic some habits
of my old workflow.
But I don't like the shelf in XSI. It looks like a "me too" and
thats it. Perhaps I can somehow get something like I did in Maya
with a script: each Icon has an integrated menu. So when you klick
an Polyshpere-icon, a menu with all polyprimitives opens. Same for
NURBS, Lights, Deformations, Fields etc. - Very like the buttons
in XSI with the little arrow. Perhaps I can straighten out some of
the sub-menues of the "Get Primitive"-botton.
But in the end, all that doesn't matter thaaat much. Perhaps it's
only psychological of me, to get in comfort with a new software ;-)

Cheers!
Marco

Brent McPherson schrieb:
> 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!
> --
> Brent
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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