SI Technology Previews

[Helli]

For me as animator this looks quite nice.
You are able to change the timing in your animation at every time.
Would be interesting how the keys behave when you scale the animation this way.

[iamVFX]

Well, I'm glad that animators excited about this Waiting a new tech previews to see more!

[luceric]

it's kind of like a lattice for keys. it's more useful than the region for retiming animation

[bottleofram]

Neat. Can it respect frame snapping? Really dont like my keys sitting on 21.658-ish frame and all that business...

Also, if maya and xsi have to be identical animation-wise, any plans on bringing those editable motion trails, perhaps..? Hum?

[Bellsey]

Neat. Can it respect frame snapping? Really dont like my keys sitting on 21.658-ish frame and all that business...

Yes. I only had snap to grid turned on, not frames.

[gustavoeb]

http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/graham/s ... gy_preview

one more!

[gustavoeb]

ok... but we can do that with the ALT key already, cant we?

[TwinSnakes007]

Guys...lets keep it in line with these previews. There was NOTHING, and we asked to see a sneak peek, and they have been kind enough to show us some stuff, which they dont have to do.



Edit: That pivot video just gave me an idea...I think I may have figured out a way to do the "rolling cube" in ICE.

[Chris_TC]

Thank you for the previews. Please do more!

[Bellsey]

ok... but we can do that with the ALT key already, cant we?

Yes, but if you need to navigate using the S key, it can fiddlely. Also what do you do if some changes the interaction mode?

[bottleofram]

Also what do you do if some changes the interaction mode?

Call the pope, devil's got into them.

[gustavoeb]

Yes, but if you need to navigate using the S key, it can fiddlely

True

Also what do you do if some changes the interaction mode?

Who would do such a thing?!
Kidding. It is a good thing really, I find that most of the times when we tell someone to use a different Interaction Mode they miss out so much. It is nice to see those rough edges fixed...

Call the pope, devil's got into them.

[Firebird]

For me that would be a very handy tool if it comes someday or another.

I hope it will be sooner than later


Edit: I meant the retiming tool.

[JPWestmas]

Scaling and shifting keys more efficiently is definitely something to experiment with. I'm glad this is occurring in SI. As long as there is a good beta team to give feedback, should be great!

[rray]

A new feature preview has been posted on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaUMgVWqUPo

Shows only a really small addition:

The menus of the SRT tools can now be used as an alternative to using ALT for moving the transfrom pivot. Seems to be for people that come from other software and are used to one handed interaction.

[McNistor]

rray,
You're a little late to the party
The video link was already posted...
So only two?