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  • I have no experience in c4d or maya back then as back then I was experimenting with milkshape.

    Maya used a clever rose menu where you hold down a modifier key and right mouse button and you can navigate all but the more uncommon commands without moving any of your hands. A complex command requiring a hotkey or multiple menus ends up being a sub 1cm movement engrained in your muscle memory and maybe a modifier key.

    And that movement is very easy to learn and memorize thanks to the design. I have to this day never seen an ui done better than maya.







  • Coming from maya where everything is on modifier key and a sub second flick of your mouse and having to use something as disgusting and alow as “hotkeys” is an adjustment. Everything but the ui is geat. Except for 3d cursor, fuck that stupid thing. I have a 3d cursor, it’s my cursor.

    And lack of the x y z coordinate setter. Getting something to 000 is impossible and setting prescise pivots is a nightmare.



  • Intuitively finding basics everybody starting out needs in the ui takes a backseat to the pro who is using all the shortcuts and custom workspace layouts going to adapt to the changes anyway. Especially as basically no one uses gimp professionally all day and the people who would use it are not using gimp cause it’s not intuitive.

    I can’t wait for freecad to stop being just an poweful near peer and actually become an usable near peer.