Maya: save temp file on crash! what a glorious improvement. they make you dig for the temp file, but it's always there and 90% of the time it is uncorrupted.
XSI's overall UI, I really enjoy working in everything from the material manager, view port, hotkeys, etc etc, it just makes maya feel messy and dated.
this + context sensitive gesture based menu's which I can access in milliseconds (really helps when Uv'ing as well most), also prefer the UV'ing in maya than max.
Man, only one?:poly122: After using Max a lot lately I've gained a new appreciation for a lot of aspects Maya, and inversely, features in Max. Maya: Definitely the marking menus. Fast, efficient and endlessly expandable. They make it so that you don't have to have a billion customized alt+shift+ctrl hotkeys or an extremely…