Seems like a "every once in awhile" repeat post.. Someone claims to be a UI designer with years of experience while criticizing MoI for not being like "Maya"!!! Hahahaha... Then parts with the "Its a cute app" post...

Kindof feels like the guy that slaps you in the face, then tells you "You'll never be anything in life!" syndrome. The life coach that has to prove his point at the expense of your overall well being by trying to break down any self confidence and pride!!

Hi Jason - thank you for that and I also apologize for what I said as well.

For the record, I actually agree with your suggestions and it would not have really bothered me very much if you would have maybe phrased them a little differently. The part that I found objectionable was not really the suggestion itself but rather the comparison to Windows 3.1.

I do want to include the kind of stuff that you were asking about in the future.

One thing that tends to be frustrating for me is when someone basically says - "hey, some other company that happens to have 10 to 30 developers working on their software (along with marketing and sales people, webmasters, people in support, etc...) has feature X so that means you should have it too and also by the way if you don't have it then your software is completely useless and I will just totally overlook all of the areas where there was a lot of time and attention spent in your software."

When you're developing software with limited resources (and they don't get any more limited than a one-man operation) it's vitally important to prioritize things. So for example when you're setting up a keyboard shortcut in MoI for the Extrude command you have to actually type in the command name "Extrude" in the command box. It would definitely be nicer to pick or drag/drop the name from some list of commands that you could browse, there is no doubt about that. But it has been hard for me to prioritize making that particular area really slick in the earlier MoI versions because it's a one-shot one time setup thing and the inconvenience of it will be over really quickly. It just does not have enough impact for it to have gotten time devoted to it in the early MoI versions. If I delayed shipping MoI until it had a super slick shortcut key editor (among other things), it just simply would not exist, it would have died in development by taking too long.

As time goes on I fully expect for these flawed areas of MoI to get attention and to get polished up.

Thanks,
- Michael

Instead of the 6 legged pod tutorial, maybe this could be part of MoI's reference?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjXTOlsE8k0

Hi Burr, I do love that video, maybe I need to make a Turbo-Entabulator command in MoI...

- Michael

Hi Burr, What language was that guy speaking? :-)

""""What language was that guy speaking?""""""""

Thats "insider" stuff!!!!! Those that have years and years of experience, know exacly what he is describing, and form their own modals from this structure!!!!! :o

""""""maybe I need to make a Turbo-Entabulator command in MoI..."""""""""""

I am imagining that command would be a continuous popup of various MessageBox descriptions of how you are launching it incorrectly or in a non-intended manner? :o

Maybe one day when I get a bit more experience, I'll be allowed 'in'. :-)

< It would definitely be nicer to pick or drag/drop the name from some list of commands that you could browse, there is no doubt about that.

But now we can make a simple personal list with the Note Pad Text and make a little copy past

It's not a big deal :)

Seems it's better to have more modeling functions than a very specialized UI