How about instead of Maya mirroring Nex functionality, it just comes with a coupon to purchase Nex? I shudder at Autodesk half-assed replacing the functionality of excellent plug-ins that would reduce the demand and sales for those plug-ins... instead, they should focus on bug fixing and stability to help the plugin…
20 - "When editing geometry in a subobject mode, it is very easy to select other meshes by accident. This can be very annyoing when trying to work on a specifc piece of geometry and you keep selecting the geometry behind what you are working on by accident. This behavior is also problematic when you want to clear your…
Animatr: Yeah, the point is that while the functionality is there (real-time results when dragging a spinner), the workflow is pretty backwards. You should be able to preview stuff before you commit to it - basically the dragging thing should take place while you're in the tool options before you apply it, rather than…
I agree about viewport speed and poly modeling tools. The lack of previewing is horrible. Nex is great at adding in basic functionality like previewing and modeling tools but only goes so far. Honestly I would rather just buy and use Silo then deal with Maya or Max when it comes to modeling. Contextually sensitive hot keys…
I'm no programming expert but I always imagined something like this would fix the problem. //fake-code Layer_1.rename('High Poly Helmet') would intelligently replace the spaces with underscores or maybe add a label attribute to be the layers visible name in the layer area. Layer_1.relabel('High Poly Helmet') and then the…