Quote - But you can't just have a button for something like fur or dynamic cloth. You need parameter settings too; lots of them; the more controls, the more functional.
AO isn't a one click feature either. You need control of colors (prefereably maps), spread, distance, fall-off, and so on.
It just isn't possible to introduce the type of complex features that you are talking about as check boxes or single buttons. There must be many parameters made available to make the features usable.

Actually you can.  When you press that little CLOTH button, a small menu pops open where you can have all the parameters you want.  The most complex actions can be simplified to absolute simplicity.  And that's what computers do well... and by the way, aren't computers supposed to simplify our lifeand not make it frustrating?

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