I so don’t understand this reluctance to create a decent
hierarchy and relationship viewer in what is, after all, a hierarchical data
set. You desperately need a node view for viewing relationships and you desperately
need to improve the usability of the schematic. Surely it’s not
impossible to add that functionality without breaking it for those that use it
as is. I’d be willing to bet most of those would be ecstatic to be
able to see and manipulate relationships in the schematic and those that don’t
use it for the most part don’t use it because it needs badly to be
improved.
Your argument makes no sense and if there’s anyone on this
list you should be listening to seriously about this it’s Brad. He
has a better understanding of this and articulates it better than probably any
other user you have.
From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
[mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Luc-Eric Rousseau
Sent: 29 February 2008 20:06
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: RE: Schematic View
Actually the schematic in XSI isn’t driven by XSI’s
architecture, but rather by the workflow for a specific group of Softimage|3D
users. It’s not meant to show operators or construction history,
and as you can see moving nodes around is a secondary action (i.e. you
can’t just click and move around nodes by default), and it remembers user
positions of the nodes you modified. We do not really want to show
operator in that view or complicate that view with more features that then
“breaks” it for these users, it’s a conscious decision.
XSI’s Schematic was also a good way to view and edit
shared materials, but the size of the scenes and practices have evolved.
The Material Manager is the best place to view and edit these relations today,
with features and including “Who Users?” tab. SI|3D also
didn’t have the powerful material inheritance feature that XSI has,
simple things like materials-on-groups.
From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
[mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Bradley Gabe
Posted At: February-29-08 2:34 PM
Posted To: xsi
Conversation: Schematic View
Subject: Re: Schematic View
[…] As far as improvements
go, it also seems there are two areas, aesthetic improvements such as node size
and layout, and functionality improvements such as the ability to rewire
operator connections. Aesthetic changes don't require updates to XSI's core the
way many functionality improvements do, which is why we've seen a few changes
in aesthetics of the schematic in the past few XSI updates. We haven't seen any
major udates to functionality such as the ability to rewire operators, not
because Soft doesn't want to, but because what we already have in the schematic
is likely a manifestation of XSI's current core architecture.
