I disagree with a lot of what you're saying about Blender, but that's perhaps the funniest way I've heard someone describe Blender. And it's accurate, too, to a point. I agree that Blender's interface is often chaotic. It's a side effect of the development model. When you have a different dev working on a different tool…
@fdfxd2 Thanks for the tips :D That U unwrap menu was everything I needed and more! ------- I've been unwrapping quite a few objects now and picking up some speed. To my delight, unwrapping things in Blender isn't quite as bad as I feared at the beginning. In fact, in some areas it's even faster than my previous methods in…
@MrNinjutsu Like you, I've only been using Blender to model in casually and am a Max user. I'm currently doing my first big(in Blender) AAA gun asset(100K) and have avoided Blender's unwrap tools like the plague..........until now. :) The UV sync thing was completely alien to my brain and I just couldn't see the logic of…
Hi Ace-Angel, First up, love your work, enjoy your posts :) Each to their own is my way of saying I don't think it's a big deal if people want to change the UI. Institutionalized is my way of saying if you have been using the same software for well over 10 years, then it becomes kinda struggle to adapt to a new one.…
"Wouldn't you expect all those files to be imported to other programs at the same scale?" I personally wouldn't at all because it all depends on what the data actually says, and what the importers do or don't do with it. Let's say you have a simple plane, with verts placed at -1 -1 0 -1 1 0 1 -1 0 1 1 0 (And all transforms…
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…
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…
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…
I'm trying to recreate this OSL node setup from Max in Blender. I've loaded the OSL script in Blender, but it doesn't work and I'd rather not use OSL anyway as it doesn't support GPU. Basically, I have 2 displacement maps: 1 baked from Zbrush with a 0 mid-point, and the other is a 3-channel RGB map that I painted in Mari…
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…