Webinars planned for 3ds Max XBR Update
If you'd like to hear an update on our plans for restructuring 3ds Max (Project Excalibur or XBR) then follow this link:
http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/ken/excalibur_xbr_update
http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/ken/excalibur_xbr_update
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http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/ken/xbr_webinar_last_chance
Just registered, although I'm on UK time and the only appropriate time will be when I'm driving home from work, so I'll either catch the later session or watch the stream later.
Either way, really excited to see where you're taking things. I've recently re-focused my career on Arch-Viz, so I'm spending a lot more time solely inside of Max now and keen to hear about some of the new developments you have going on.
Is that a hint at realtime rendering features on the screenshot in the link?
I was wondering whether that would be coming soon, since the elephant in the room is now pushing it's RT renderer.
Super talented dude.
Can't wait to see what is going on.
The direction the UI is going in looks incredible, certainly to me at least. It seems you've really taken on board what people have been saying about things becoming overcomplicated and unnecessary. I suppose we'll have to wait and see how it genuinely performs but it looks promising.
I do have a question though; when Shane was running through the realtime/viewport rendering showing the little FLV clip of the navigation, it seemed very very laggy. He was narrating saying 'you can see it is very easy to navigate' yet it was refreshing at about 0.25 fps. I'm assuming this should've appeared smoother and it was just the streaming feed?
Either way, the realtime visuals looked beautiful.
Very exciting stuff, thanks for letting us be a part of it!
Q: If the MAX team and the MAYA team were to throw down...who would win?
A: We out-mass them by quite a bit and we fight dirty
LET'S GET IT ON
I did hear there will be UV Unwrap info. in the new couple weeks... so I hope they did/are doing a big overhaul on that.
I was especially interested in the part about hotkey presets. Like everyone else I customize max a ton after a fresh install. One problem with saving and loading keboard setups is that they don't keep keys for custom macros and scripts so switching between different setups like that doesn't work currently. Speaking of which: When converting from one component selection to another (ex: vert>edge) the user ctrl clicks on the corresponding component button, but there's no hotkey for this by default like ctrl+1/2/3/4/5. That always came off as an inconsistency to me and is one of the first set of hotkeys I end up changing.
I'm hoping in Max2012 or 2013 we'll see a number of usability enhancements for some of the brush-based tools too. Like being able to easily change the Paint Selection Brush size without having to go into preferences. Or smooth with any of the graphite brushes (shift) instead of having it as a separate tool.
Waiting for the email with the video link sense I missed the first half of the presentation and am wondering what's going on with caddies.
For XBR UI, we need trackviews and dopesheets to render just as fast as viewports.
Anyone have a link? I was signed up but missed it. The email said a link would be sent around for people who signed up and missed it... but so far I can't find any info on it.
area.autodesk.com/blogs/ken/xbr_webinar_results
Also, you might want to check out something we're doing for the community:
area.autodesk.com/blogs/ken/announcing_3ds_max_community_wishlist
I gotta say, that User Voice site is just brilliant. Depending on how it pans out over the years, it could be the greatest thing I've seen in a while.
A couple of things made me very happy to hear, first of all was talk of quicksilvers functionality being tested in the viewport. Mental Mill was such a great step and now this is even more promising.
The idea of node based modifier stacks also sounds very promising (along with unified physics (WOW!))
anyway cheers for posting those links. Since you personally started showing up, my perceptions of AD
have been seriously changed for the better.
The UI changes haven't exacttly instilled any confidence in their designer's skill, either.
The ideas for docking and tabs sound good though!
Also, I remember you saying you were pushing for a public wishlist like this, Ken, and I'm glad to see it happen! I finally got to complain about one of my pet peeves, heh: https://autodesk.uservoice.com/forums/76763-publicsmallannoyingthings/suggestions/1489873-selection-highlighting-not-standard-expected-max
As well as voting on a lot of other people's requests, ofcourse.
Seems they have to build up the new before they can tear down the old, hence the current performance problems.
I did noticed that that at one point in the video they showed a slide that mentioned turning features off like, the caddies, the viewcube, the steering wheel thing and so forth. So it would seem like they understand that the caddie system is horrific and the old way of doing things was so much more effective/less frustrating.
My question is will Autodesk actually follow through with this and give me the option to remove this terrible caddie system in favor of the old more effect pop up box work flow? Even the idea of having those dialog boxes all in a similar place at all times like they mentioned when referring to the array tool would be a warm welcome to the current caddie system. Although I still like to be able to float windows where I want and have them always open in that same place.
the caddies system is what is preventing me from upgrading from 2010.