Re: Coming back from Maya

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

that looks very nice! Good Idea to place a layerwindow under the
explorer.
And you are right, the learning curve is a little steep. Especially
with frames which resizes together or keep stuck and reveal empty space.
(After Effects is much easier to  configure).

Marco

Frank Lenhard schrieb:
> i use a customized layout. for me its important to have the explorer
> open all the time, so its part of the screen layout. layers are fine
> too and on the second screen i can switch from rendertree till netview
> through all important views that i ususally use.
>
> a second layout replaces these views with different instances of the
> script editor, to mimic the tool developement layout, but on 2
> screens.
>
> after i overcame the big learning curve of the layout editor... i
> enjoy the flexibility very much!
>
>
> ciao
> franky
>
>
> Monday, February 4, 2008, 3:28:13 PM, you wrote:
>
> MVN> Brent McPherson schrieb:
> > > Jeeze, you guys are going to scare off poor Marco! ;-)
>
> MVN> Au contraire!  It's quite interessting and funny too.
>
> MVN> It's more than difficult to get old learned habits (W,E,R)
> MVN> out of my brain. It's like riding a new bike, where the
> MVN> steering wheel acts completely different. So, I will
> MVN> reconfigure it a litte, keeping S as the navi-control.
>
> MVN> BUT: since we are quite through with keyboard shortcuts;
> MVN> how about some rant about the layout ;-)
>
> MVN> After years of optimizing and reconfiguring the maya interface,
> MVN> I would like to do similar things to the XSI-Window. For example,
> MVN> I miss the outliner, where I was selecting all my objects, cameras
> MVN> and so on. Since I have a 16:10 monitor, I did something like this:
> MVN> <see attached picture>
>
> MVN> Then I would like to have some less menu-digging (i.e. get sphere).
> MVN> ....and on and on.
>
> MVN> So, are you working with the default layout, or do you "pimp" it
> MVN> somehow too? I (and probably other too) would like to see them.
> MVN> Since Softimage offers such powerfull Layout editing, it would be
> MVN> sad if noone shares it.  Perhaps another thing for www.xsidatabase.com?
>
> MVN> Let the thread continue,
> MVN> best wishes,
> MVN> Marco
>
>
>
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