Maya 6 NAB vids 2004-04-25 - By Raffaele "ThE_JacO" Fragapane
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You can speak Jordi, we got 'Stine clearance from the NDA as long as we
don't mention the hello kitty beta accident :)
As for materials management... HAH ! I laugh in the face of Maya's puny
shaders bins :)
-~== 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
jordibares
Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004 12:25 PM
To: XSI@(protected)
Subject: Re: Maya 6 NAB vids
> 2) Much better material previews and super high quality opengl rendering
> right in the viewport! In Maya 6.0 you can see everything in the viewport
> opengl preview: texture layering, specularity, layered multi-textures,
bump
> maps, even reflection maps!!! It really uses your graphic card to the
> fullest! This is a huge advantage and adds a lot to the interactivity.
When
> I think that my $1000 graphics card is mostly not used it drives me nuts
> :-).Also Hypershade lets you see previews of procedural textures and it is
> really helpful. I've been begging for it for 3 years now :-( in XSI.
Well, XSI v4 has built something that will change that forever! he he he
he...
> That is why I didn't like the Maya to XSI comparison... because those guys
> at Alias were working very hard, given the limited resources they had and
> Maya does many thing that XSI doesn't, so it goes both ways. Maya is
trying
> to add features that are in XSI, XSI is trying to add features that are in
> Maya. That's how it's always been. That's competition and allocation of
> resources for development.
I think that is wrong and would be unfair not to answer this, Softimage is
trying badly NOT to copy, but to improve and you will see that clearly on
v4.
I guess the best thing i can say without Christine killing me for breaking
the NDA is to say, let's wait till you have the full list in your hands.
jb
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