"Poor knockoff" -- you make it sound like it would be lacking or malfunctioning, which I disagree. I'm glad you have everything you need, I hope you make some great art with it. To correct what I said, using the bpy.app.handlers.load_post app handler in a script would let you run a function anytime a file is opened, making…
You can try lowering the angle threshold instead of working with sharp edges, or is there any particular reason why you need to mark them? Another option is using the "Edge Split" modifier, but you would need to switch it and the subd modifier on and off everytime you want to see proper subd or sharp edges. When using…
You are missing my point. If you don't have any reason to switch to the new generation of Blender, then don't. .79 is still usable for production, and you can keep both versions installed anyway.
can you do the last one if you change "pivot center" to active element and "transformation orientation" to normal? and make sure the face you want to align to is selected last so it is active selection
Trunk is the continuously updated repository of files and it was added after the last official stable release so if you want to play with it you will have to download one of the daily or graphicall builds. They run stand alone so you can just unzip into a folder and jump into play with the feature you want to try out.
Good crash course on the armature system here for you animators. http://vimeo.com/20547255 @Vrav: do you mean triangulation? Use ctrl+t, and in your edge specials (ctrl+e) you can rotate the edge if it triangulates the wrong way. @Mongrelman: yeah, the knife tool has been a common complaint, but you can merge verts like…
@Justo I can't see any reason to not have the cursor always set to geometry, so you would just need to change the transform orientation. I don't remember the default hotkey to move the cursor arround, is shift+right click here. This is also very usefull to create objects that you want facing to specific direction, when you…
hello, 1) In the "display" section of the N pannel, you can adjust the size of the grid (and the number of lines). By holding "shift" during the trasformation, you can also be more precise ! 2) B is the shortcut for box selected so you can map it as ou want in the user pref. However with ctrl+click you can do a lasso…