Hi all, since I didn't upgrade to the yearly account you for surveys I closed the survey earlier to make sure I didn't get overage charges. Regarding Tons statement about difficulty finding developers - I tend to disagree. He wants coders who are brilliant self managers and who work for peanuts and have a deep knowledge of…
This is interesting to read from the point of view of a blender user. I've been working with blender for 3 years and have almost never found it limiting or hard to use. I tried maya recently (free trial) and it was so wrong and hard to use. Things very simplified in blender were way too complex, and I very much wanted to…
Hi @cjpeg 2.8 will have some API changes (Blender API = the coding libraries and rules that developers use to make add-ons for it), so almost all add-ons for 2.79b will need to pass through some kind of porting in order to work with 2.8 when it's released as stable. Many quirks and workflows will still be the same as in…
Blender's UV tools is all I've known for 5+ years using Blender. To be honest, the beauty of Blender's algorithm to lay out UV islands based on the seams I've set manually, is that those UV islands are 80% of the time perfect without needing that much adjusting. That's basically guaranteed out of th box good UVs for hard…
@melviso - Thanks! There is a way to make a plane and a circle with it, just shift + right click when you're dragging the plane out (first part of the box), or you could also do an alt + right click when doing the Z axis and it will stop the modal and revert it back to a plane or circle depending on which modal you where…
There is https://github.com/heimlich1024/OD_CopyPasteExternal. Should work on all kind of softwares. Anyway some update about Hair tool. I latest release I focused mostly on creating short hair, so you will be able to create this kind of stuff: Video about new features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLHbzCXOijg I know…
I've never really understood why Blender has been bashed in the past for its UI. I've always thought it was by far the best looking UI in a 3D package I've seen. Other programs, namely 3DS, are so convoluted with text and icons that really just look awful. I can't even bare to look at it. I suppose Blender looks a little…
@melviso you said you're not that familiar with the node editor, so it would be a great way to learn if you tried to recreate that node tree by following the images. This is a 7 min tutorial on some basics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zrd37k2tJM Additional things you need to know: - Shift + A to get the menu with all…
Question to you all - does anyone know of a reliable way (as in : you tested it yourself) to get .blend files thumbnails to show a scene preview in windows files explorer ? I've definitely had that in the past around an early 2.7 version but I can't seem to get it to work now. Of course I do *not* mean the thumbnails…
I'm with you on that Blaizer, but please keep in mind : to a software developer who is not a direct user of the tool being worked on, "poor performance" and "good performance" are absolutely meaningless terms since they are relative, and even if you tell a dev "well, it has to hit 60fps" then you'll get an answer along the…