User Guide Softimage 2014 online
- Superpositivo
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Of course, but that was to lower the feeling of Softimage users being always in the back...
- bottleofram
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Hmmm... Feature for feature, there's no question where the resources have gone the last few years...Superpositivo wrote:Mh! The Maya one doesn't seem so great, either. Some good updates on existing tools.
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God I hate Autodesk...
- Superpositivo
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Yeah. Maya got some tools that were in Softimage since years. Now they have this new panel for modeling where you can select and edit more easily components and some tweak like the sliding components (the Tweak Tool with magnet icon active) and the Curvature Continuity for the edges.bottleofram wrote:Hmmm... Feature for feature, there's no question where the resources have gone the last few years...Superpositivo wrote:Mh! The Maya one doesn't seem so great, either. Some good updates on existing tools.
I guess various Maya users won't use almost any of the new features. Well, I'm sure for some of them I know.
A funny thing:
I let see at two friends of mine (long time Maya users) the camera Sequencer of Softimage 2014. They said : "COOL! Very useful! Maybe they put it in Maya, too!"
I said "you already have it since 2 years!!! And it has even more features (like the EDL file to cut the clips)".
Answer : "Oh yeah? I didn't know, that. I never used it!".
Re: User Guide Softimage 2014 online
Any idea how to find those new nodes?Many new ICE compounds and nodes are introduced to provide more capabilities in the improved CrowdFX system. See the ICE Compounds and ICE Nodes topics in the ICE Reference to find out more information on the new ICE compounds and nodes.
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- Superpositivo
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I guess they are these:McNistor wrote:Any idea how to find those new nodes?Many new ICE compounds and nodes are introduced to provide more capabilities in the improved CrowdFX system. See the ICE Compounds and ICE Nodes topics in the ICE Reference to find out more information on the new ICE compounds and nodes.
http://download.autodesk.com/global/doc ... d30e353113
Actually they say the truth. There are many new ones, browsing them.
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New ICE stuff:
http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/softimage2014/en_us/userguide/
So CUDA based rigid body simulation environment. That feature didn't exist, (or never worked before), right?
http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/softimage2014/en_us/userguide/
So CUDA based rigid body simulation environment. That feature didn't exist, (or never worked before), right?
Arnold for the masses!
- Superpositivo
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Interesting. The Crowd FX had the most of the attention.
It seems revamped, to the point that for legacy compounds in the documentation they write "This is a legacy compound, which you can use for the old CrowdFX system. ".
The last year's one is already old! I find it positive...
It seems revamped, to the point that for legacy compounds in the documentation they write "This is a legacy compound, which you can use for the old CrowdFX system. ".
The last year's one is already old! I find it positive...
Re: User Guide Softimage 2014 online
It looks like a few will enjoy this release (mostly studios that need crowds and/or Syflex), as for us grunts, there's not much added.
p.s. Maya's new modeling tools seem so disconnected because it's a slapped on plug. Do I understand correctly in that the toolset has a power On/Off button?
p.s. Maya's new modeling tools seem so disconnected because it's a slapped on plug. Do I understand correctly in that the toolset has a power On/Off button?
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it's bad compared to other 3D packages,.. But SUPER COOL compared to what softimage got !!Superpositivo wrote:Mh! The Maya one doesn't seem so great, either. Some good updates on existing tools.
Shameful autodesk Just shameful ..
how much did i pay for that again !! ,...We got more from third party FREE plugins like motion tools then what's in this release !
Yearly subscriptions are clearly NOT the way to get value from Autodesk software.
could have stayed on 2012 and would never have noticed or missed ANYTHING !!
- Superpositivo
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The interesting thing, to me, is some of the work done on Softimage is not mentioned on the new features. An example is the they updated something in Lagoa and added the new node of "Emits Lagoa particles from a volume. " while they consider the Help a new feature.
Besides Lagoa that I never used considering it too slow, the NEW and UPDATES in the documentation show there is an eye in the road map for tools and features that maybe we given for forgotten. Am I too much optimistic?
Besides Lagoa that I never used considering it too slow, the NEW and UPDATES in the documentation show there is an eye in the road map for tools and features that maybe we given for forgotten. Am I too much optimistic?
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Yep, more likely something happened down the road that stopped that famous quote from Mark to happen. Something like: "Hey Softimage team hold your horses, you need to save some features for SAP version... and 2015. and in the meantime can you help the Maya team a little bit, they kinda low on manpower.Superpositivo wrote:The interesting thing, to me, is some of the work done on Softimage is not mentioned on the new features. An example is the they updated something in Lagoa and added the new node of "Emits Lagoa particles from a volume. " while they consider the Help a new feature.
Besides Lagoa that I never used considering it too slow, the NEW and UPDATES in the documentation show there is an eye in the road map for tools and features that maybe we given for forgotten. Am I too much optimistic?
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It's just a good job that we are already a substantial way ahead of the pack, so at least we have quite a few years of breathing space.
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Before you were using '[' and ']' for trimming a clip before and after with the time slider placed on a particular frame.You can now press Alt+click on the middle of either edge of a clip and drag in either direction to trim it interactively in the Animation Mixer.
Now they added alt+click. Why do they waste time on such things it's beyond my power of comprehension.
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uhm Is it me or there is something wrong with the "Texturing" new feature?
I dont see any change from Softimage 2013, yet its listed as a new feature, speaking of Unfold.
here is a screengrab of softimage 2013 and the 2014 doc with whats new.
am I missing something?
regarding the whole release, its completely skippable to me and the work i do. So yeah, glad i didnt renew.
I dont see any change from Softimage 2013, yet its listed as a new feature, speaking of Unfold.
here is a screengrab of softimage 2013 and the 2014 doc with whats new.
am I missing something?
regarding the whole release, its completely skippable to me and the work i do. So yeah, glad i didnt renew.
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I agree. Continue as usual. The community needs to stop relying on Autodesk for assistance and rather, each other.Pooby wrote:It's just a good job that we are already a substantial way ahead of the pack, so at least we have quite a few years of breathing space.
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