Hey guys, Thanks for posting this here! I'm not too active on these forums and so it's an honor to have this linked. Hopefully I can sooth any qualms about the experience concerns. I am twenty three but am nearing in on ten years experience in both Blender and the 3D industry. I am a Blender Foundation Certified…
I actually really like Blender's controls when using a decent 3-button mouse, but then again I switched permanently from Maya about 6 months ago (when 2.63 came out) so I've had plenty of to get used to them (and Maya's whole interface was clunky to begin with; holding alt for everything, going through menus and clicking…
Primitives in max have some great quick parameters, adding sides to a cylinder or a cap ring is a one click step on a primitive. Adjusting the slope on a oil tank or a capsule are super quick ways to get a non-standard cylinder shape much faster than trying to poly model a cylinder into those shapes. It also helps when…
No worries, as I expected it was written off in that same defensive manner. I think perhaps theres a bit too much ego or elitism involved on such forums. If you go looking for information and see this kind insulting banter, no matter how great the application is, that negative response will be associated with the…
I just think it's silly to hold back the default keymap for the benefit of those who know the program through and through. Aren't they the ones who'd know how to change it back without any trouble? I'm with xrg: conventions help newcomers. He didn't even mention Maya, Super Happy Cow did, xrg was talking about the…
The answer is - pretty damn accurate! Turns out I didn't know about Mesh>Normals>Set Face Strength>Strong. Using @kio 's method of applying a weighted normals modifier gave me the results I showed in my second post's last image, which still had some artifacts, but manually setting the normals to Strong in those faces…
@pior The solution I posted worked for me when I couldn't see the thumbnails in the file explorer. Also I missed the part whereby you have tried that earlier (my bad). Before I ran the command mine was not showing the blender logo (like yours) and was just showing a blank ICON as I didn't even have it registered to open…
@Blaizer I'm a little confused. I just tested this on my build—also GTX 1060, but paired with a i5 6600. It should perform worse than yours. Here's what I see on 2.83. You said this version was particularly bad at this but it's not an alpha, so should be preferred for tests. While I got a slight performance drop imo it's…
@"Michael Knubben" Good idea, it's always cool seeing how others have blender setup :) And I like it being so customizable, among the many included addons, open source once or making one from scratch, That floating panel looks cool! :) I don't work with as little UI as you do, but even then it would save me time from…
hmm the default hotkeys dont seem very good. just switching manipulators isnt possible without a mouse click. this gives me a lot of frustration as i now have two choices it seems. 1. custimize blender so it works for me. but this is super hard since i dont know the program yet, basically i need to custimize it before i…