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the construction mode in v4

the construction mode in v4

2004-04-22 - By Raffaele "ThE_JacO" Fragapane

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You can't understand until you use it :)

There's two roads development can walk, one is answering blindly to user
requests and putting in what the competition put in in their previous
release, the other is trying to come up with something that is ahead of the
userbase thinking, this is exactly the case for construction mode.

While it's not the same of a fully functional operators network it makes the
whole thing A LOT more functional and manageable, and without confusing the
hell out of artists like networked solutions do.

It took me about 2 or 3 hours to get used to it, and the implementation is
really smart; if you do something that will create an operator while in the
wrong mode (like enveloping in modeling mode) it will prompt you and ask if
you want that in animation mode, same for shapes and so on.

The proof of how intuitive it is comes from how we worked here, some people
who never touched XSI came in and had to use V4 straight away, and they all
found the split stack a wonderful thing and perfectly logical; I should also
add that thank to the stack we could send rigged models to people who had to
build new shapes for them without worrying about them killing something,
last but not least secondary shape animation is the definitive mesh-screw-up
patcher.

Most of what this new system allows was already possible, but it required
somebody who knew perfectly how XSI stacks and interacts with operators, and
it was very easy to FUBAR something if you forgot a step, now it's a lot
friendlier and faster, and the overhead in situations when you wouldn't need
it is close to 0

P.S.

The new SDK rocks even more then the construction mode :)

-~== Raffaele Fragapane ==~-
-~== Freelance Technical Animator & TD ==~-
-~== Senior Technical Animator @ Peerless Camera ==~-

- Currently London Based
- +44 798 4955734

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From: owner-xsi@(protected) [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf Of
Oz Adi
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:21 PM
To: XSI@(protected)
Subject: Re: the construction mode in v4

thanks for the answers guys!

now I understand better the advantages of it..

I only have big brothers, and I am not afraid of them:)

cheers,

Oz

www.coolcalb.com

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You can’t understand until you use
it :)<o:p></o:p>

There’s two roads development can
walk,
one is answering blindly to user requests and putting in what the competition
put in in their previous release, the other is trying to come up with something
that is ahead of the userbase thinking, this is exactly the case for
construction mode.<o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p>

While it’s not the same of a fully
functional operators network it makes the whole thing A LOT more functional and
manageable, and without confusing the hell out of artists like networked
solutions do.<o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p>

It took me about 2 or 3 hours to get used
to it, and the implementation is really smart; if you do something that will
create an operator while in the wrong mode (like enveloping in modeling mode)
it will prompt you and ask if you want that in animation mode, same for shapes
and so on.<o:p></o:p>

The proof of how intuitive it is comes
from how we worked here, some people who never touched XSI came in and had to
use V4 straight away, and they all found the split stack a wonderful thing and
perfectly logical; I should also add that thank to the stack we could send
rigged models to people who had to build new shapes for them without worrying
about them killing something, last but not least secondary shape animation is
the definitive mesh-screw-up patcher.<o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p>

Most of what this new system allows was
already possible, but it required somebody who knew perfectly how XSI stacks
and interacts with operators, and it was very easy to FUBAR something if you
forgot a step, now it’s a lot friendlier and faster, and the overhead in
situations when you wouldn’t need it is close to 0<o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p>

P.S.<o:p></o:p>

The new SDK rocks even more then the
construction mode :)<o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p>

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-~== Raffaele Fragapane ==~- 
        -~==
Freelance Technical Animator & TD ==~- 
-~== Senior Technical Animator @ Peerless Camera
==~- <o:p></o:p>


- Currently London Based 
- +44 798 4955734 <o:p></o:p>

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thanks for the answers guys!<o:p></o:p>

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now I understand
better the advantages of it..<o:p></o:p>

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I only have big brothers, and I am
not afraid of them:)<o:p></o:p>

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cheers,<o:p></o:p>

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Oz<o:p></o:p>

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<a href="http://www.coolcalb.com"
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