RE: Schematic View

["Matt Lind" <mlind(at)carbinestudios.com>]

Just my opinion, but I think we'd be better served if a single view could be created where it can multi-task between being a material manager/rendertree, operator graph (a la moondust demos / or cleaner hypergraph), FX tree, schematic, and so on.  The difference between the views would mostly be which operators and connections are displayed.  It would also solve some problems users have been griping about for years (assign materials to mutiple objects in same view, for example).  From a user's perspective it's consistent and simple to learn.  It's easy to navigate given the proper controls.

 

Matt

 

 

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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Raffaele Fragapane
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 3:40 AM
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: Schematic View

Yeah, please no more views, please!
The proposed added functions would NOT change the schematic one bit, just make it more useful.

I don't know how it keeps happening, or if somebody is making a conscious effort not to read the sense in what's being written, but nobody seems to want full operators connections in the schematic, don't know where you read that Luc.

All people have been asking for is better layout tools/options and possibly some sort of access to it. That doesn't change the "schematic experience"tm one flying iota for anybody who uses it in its current form, it enhanches it for them as well if anything.

If we could also reconnect constraints that would be a bonus, and that also would NOT change the current "schematic experience"tm in the least. All it needs is ONE button somewhere to turn "connection safe" on or off, with on as a default. That way people who don't want it can move on blissfully unaware, people who want it can activate it and middle click their way to connection joy or whatever.

If we get yet another window that does more then I could possibly ever need (not to mention half of what it does would probably be the same of some other window but worse) I'll get a retro-3D fit and ebay an amiga2000 to run silver on.

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:08 AM, kim aldis <xsi(at)kim-aldis.co.uk> wrote:

I agree. Why 2 views to do more or less the same kind of thing.

 

From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Matt Lind
Sent: 03 March 2008 23:56

To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: RE: Schematic View

 

The last thing we need is yet another view.