Donchya Wish..
Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 3:44 pm
I've been learning Maya, its got a nice client based search engine,
in the Learning Edition that is.. But it doesn't answer the questions that are most relevant. Like where is there a feature like _____ in blender in maya?
The only reason I'm learning it is for
prospect of future work with companies that use it (for what reason I haven't figured out other than things like, it has splines for parametric surface lofting, the IK is a bit nicer maybe, but really why do people use Maya outside of the object oriented node hiearchices and things of that sort).. Anyhow, I find myself searching the Maya interface for blender features.. I wonder if anyone has a list of mel scripts that implement blender features, or a kind of meta-manual that links to features of one package to another. It could be at least nice if going between Maya and blender.. But then it begs the question, why would I want a feature in Maya if I can do it in blender, good point (self pats self on back).
Ah, one day the world of 3D will realize the ease of use of blender and it will be the default interface design and Maya will be a plugin..
Anyhoo, the feature that I had in mind, if anyone knows where it is in Maya is the "Smooth" feature in edit buttons.. I also found out that in Maya there is no way to rotate a "curve on surface".. I guess unless a mel script is written to do it.. Blender doesn't even implement that (might be nice but people hardly use NURBS anymore). I found myself have to move around individual CV's to get the effect..
in the Learning Edition that is.. But it doesn't answer the questions that are most relevant. Like where is there a feature like _____ in blender in maya?
The only reason I'm learning it is for
prospect of future work with companies that use it (for what reason I haven't figured out other than things like, it has splines for parametric surface lofting, the IK is a bit nicer maybe, but really why do people use Maya outside of the object oriented node hiearchices and things of that sort).. Anyhow, I find myself searching the Maya interface for blender features.. I wonder if anyone has a list of mel scripts that implement blender features, or a kind of meta-manual that links to features of one package to another. It could be at least nice if going between Maya and blender.. But then it begs the question, why would I want a feature in Maya if I can do it in blender, good point (self pats self on back).
Ah, one day the world of 3D will realize the ease of use of blender and it will be the default interface design and Maya will be a plugin..
Anyhoo, the feature that I had in mind, if anyone knows where it is in Maya is the "Smooth" feature in edit buttons.. I also found out that in Maya there is no way to rotate a "curve on surface".. I guess unless a mel script is written to do it.. Blender doesn't even implement that (might be nice but people hardly use NURBS anymore). I found myself have to move around individual CV's to get the effect..