Re: Schematic View

Date : Wed, 5 Mar 2008 01:35:28 +0000
To : XSI(at)Softimage.COM
From : "Raffaele Fragapane" <raffsxsilist(at)googlemail.com>
Subject : Re: Schematic View
Fair enough Luc, but that was Brad's recap not the backbone of the whole thread. I would say the largest majority of the opinions on the thread seem to point toward the need of better layout tools first and foremost (or at the very least not disagreeing with it), regardless of what view will one day replace or complement the schematic. Same goes for hdn and maya's brief mentiones, I don't think they were really the key of the thread nor the recurrent theme :)

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:25 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau <lucer(at)softimage.com> wrote:

From: Raffaele Fragapane

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.

From the post I quoted in my reply:


From: Bradley Gabe

[…] 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.

 

And there were a couple of posts referring to Houdini, and Hyper Graph, which is the view on Maya DAG, and not merely just a relation viewer.

 

 

From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Raffaele Fragapane
Posted At: March-04-08 6:40 AM


Posted To: xsi
Conversation: Schematic View
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 agre

 



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