Hi,
I'm new to xsi. This is a stupid question but how do I see the bottom of the xsi interface (animation controls, etc) without having to uncheck the "always on top" on the windows taskbar? Thanks.
Astro
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hth
Vmpre
Right, the default XSI layout assumes you have "always on top" turned off.
But people tend to forget that XSI has one of the most customizable interfaces around. You can adjust the placement of everything, and create a series of custom workviews you can switch between for different tasks. For instance, I have layouts (all of which make room for the taskbar) for full-screening the 3d window, two for texturing, modeling, and animation. They take no time to build, and let you create custom buttons to switch views from within a layout, as well as create custom toolbars specific to your needs.
Try checking edit->layout. This puts your screen into a layout editing mode. Then choose edit->new layout, and select the new layout as a copy of your old one. Now you can delete toolbars, add tools, customize views, divide the screen however you want etc. It's very cool once you give it a try, one of the cooler and often overlooked things about XSI.
Hi there,
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But people tend to forget that XSI has one of the most customizable interfaces around.
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Sorry but I don't share this feeling. True, you can do a lot, but it has limits. I'm pretty happy for the most part, but it comes to more specific things, you are stuck:
You can't take only parts of the panels, or even individual cells, to put them into your layout.
Many native commands are hard to find in the Customize Toolbar interface (making it tedious to add native command to custom toolbars).
You can't customize contextual menus.
You can't add commands (native or custom) to panels, only to custom toolbars.
You can't rearrange the Favorites menu in the Browser (big big mess when you have many, they are not even in alphabetical order).
Creating Net View pages to incorporate them in the current net view is tedious (and the docs are not very helpful in that matter).
Preferences changes are not exposed in the Keyboard Mapping interface (and barely anywhere else, only few of them are mentioned in the scripting docs).
Cheers
Bernard