the construction mode in v4 2004-04-21 - By Bradley Gabe
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Well I'm NOT afraid of big sister (Actually I am, but she said it was okay).
The construction modes WILL kill your workflow... a little... at first,
because they are new, you can't easily ignore them or turn them off, and
they do take a short while to get used to. But I've done enough work
with them now that I'm really starting to like and appreciate them.
Those of us who have been using XSI for a while have figured out how to
disable operators and order them in a way that we can pretty much get
done what we need for post enveloping and shape animation tweaks and
adjustments to modeling. That knowledge will still come in handy for
more advanced situations, but the construction modes have removed the
requirement for said knowledge.
In short, they pretty much take the thought out of how to order your
operator stacks, so less techie users can better take advantage of XSI's
non-linear workflow for deformation and modeling. In fact, they force
you, without thinking about it, to sort your operators in a way that
keeps them flexible for such a workflow.
The thing that people have been MOST impressed about with XSI 4.0, and
the construction modes play a central role in this, is just how far and
easily you can now push the non-linear nature of the workflow. You can
tweak your modeling at any phase of production without being forced to
go back and refit your texturing or shape animation. That's a huge time
and money saver for anybody's pipeline.
Unfortunately for Softimage, and this has been par for the course, this
sort of workflow capacity can't be easily expressed in a bullet point
list of software features. It takes showing it within the context of a
production to sink in.
-Brad
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> I'm afraid of big sister... so I wont say anything...
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> /stefan
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after watching the lipsync video, I was wondering, if it's a must to state
the construction mode, before applying any modification to the model,
or is it possible to move them from one "mode group" to another...
guys on beta ?
at first glance, it looks like it kills the workflow a bit..
--
Bradley R. Gabe
Industrial Light & Magic
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Well I'm NOT afraid of big sister (Actually I am, but she said it was
okay).<br>
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The construction modes WILL kill your workflow... a little... at first,
because they are new, you can't easily ignore them or turn them off,
and they do take a short while to get used to. But I've done enough
work with them now that I'm really starting to like and appreciate them.<br>
<br>
Those of us who have been using XSI for a while have figured out how to
disable operators and order them in a way that we can pretty much get
done what we need for post enveloping and shape animation tweaks and
adjustments to modeling. That knowledge will still come in handy for
more advanced situations, but the construction modes have removed the
requirement for said knowledge.<br>
<br>
In short, they pretty much take the thought out of how to order your
operator stacks, so less techie users can better take advantage of
XSI's non-linear workflow for deformation and modeling. In fact, they
force you, without thinking about it, to sort your operators in a way
that keeps them flexible for such a workflow.<br>
<br>
The thing that people have been MOST impressed about with XSI 4.0, and
the construction modes play a central role in this, is just how far and
easily you can now push the non-linear nature of the workflow. You can
tweak your modeling at any phase of production without being forced to
go back and refit your texturing or shape animation. That's a huge time
and money saver for anybody's pipeline.<br>
<br>
Unfortunately for Softimage, and this has been par for the course, this
sort of workflow capacity can't be easily expressed in a bullet point
list of software features. It takes showing it within the context of a
production to sink in. <br>
<br>
-Brad<br>
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I'm afraid of big sister... so I wont say anything... <br>
<br>
/stefan <br>
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<pre wrap="">after watching the lipsync video, I was wondering, if it's a
must to state
the construction mode, before applying any modification to the model,
or is it possible to move them from one "mode group" to another...
guys on beta ?
at first glance, it looks like it kills the workflow a bit..</pre>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Bradley R. Gabe
Industrial Light & Magic
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