Nothing to worry about... =) Its not cool as much as it is desperately needed. We could say the same argument about the 2.5 changes btw, that the new UI and loss of some features will "destabilize" those who spent time learning pre 2.5 blender. The fallacy of it all lays in the fact that: 1) Blender is open source and…
Hi there again @Tiles I think you are missing my point by about a mile :D Well of course the file in question is packed, as it is what "Automatically pack into .blend" does, and both the UI and behavior indicate that it is. My hypothetical at the end of last post was only in reaction to your suggestion that if it was…
my experience with blender: I am a maya/ zbrush/ lightwave/ shiva user... When i joined up with a couple half- assed programmers i tried to get them into 3d and making iphone games, they were looking for free 3d software. For me to try to learn blender just to teach them 3d was a bad idea. Im comfortable with maya and…
Please don't debate about the capabilities of Blender in the mega thread, create a topic and if you think that Blender lacks some feature you can suggest them here: https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/ But almost everything you mentioned already exist: - dyntopo is awesome, way better than dynamesh because it's…
Hey guys, I just wanted to post that Bsurfaces 1.5 has been released and its pretty outstanding. (it will be released as GLP within 5-9 months but is currently $39) Its a modeling and retopo toolset that uses greasepaint and/or bezier curves to generate surfaces. Its the commercial upgrade of the current Bsurfaces 0.9 that…
Hey, thanks for the suggestions y'all. @Justo : unfortunately this is *precisely* the problem with this new paradigm. On paper/in theory it sounds great and all, the feature is here since the little triangle icon does get highlighted ... but in practice it doesn't really work (at least for me) because as soon as a…
@tynew : working without a gizmo is probably the biggest (and positive) paradigm shift indeed. There are a couple more things too : • Off-hand transformation (there is no official name for that, that's just what i call it). The idea is that on top of not having to grab any onscreen gizmo, there is also no need to grab onto…
@musashidan I will watch these, thank you for sharing your findings with us. I'll watch it next week though, since I need to start preparing for a trip now. I'm so slow haha...But learning new software is exciting! During the creation of this bolt head, these were my main concerns during the modeling: * Any one-button…
Hi all! I have started to make the transition from Max to Blender and after making the upgrade to 2.8, I found the learning experience to be even more pleasant and intuitive (I have been a max user since 2000/2001 and have to admit, got rather stuck in my ways- 2.8's UI feels more welcoming than previous versions and the…
I downloaded Blender 2.8 yesterday and was looking into adding my own scripts to custom keyboard hotkeys, but there are gaps in my understanding that the Blender documentation isn't explaining well enough to a dumbass like me. For starters, all the scripts I've been finding that should be printing stuff somewhere aren't…