@Udjani Ahhh I finally see what you mean. It's tricky. I need to set the 3d Cursor to geomtery, set the transform orientation to Cursor, and finally set the 3d cursor position to Median point/bounding box center. Seems like creating a custom pivot is faster and simpler, but it's good to know there's this other method.…
Blender doesn't have quite as good scripting documentation as Modo and the API gets broken much more frequently but it has got a few things going for it that make it pretty easy to script. The API documentation is available here, so go ahead and take a look. One thing that you'll be using in the process of scripting…
Dim: By unified brush settings I mean they are numerically linked so if Drawn brush is at 0.75 strength all the other brushes will be too, etc. This should work for strength, size, and color (I can hardly believe even color isn't unified). Although with no blur, burn, or dodge brushes its seeming rather barren anyway. For…
Thank you for the tip, you're right the inflate brush woulda helped a lot while I was cleaning up my bake. I ended up just doing a lot of pushing and pulling of faces while going back and forth between xnormal which wasn't particularly fast. I have another question, hopefully the last one for a while. (Sorry about the…
@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…
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…
I believe for a 3d app (or any app) to be considered good, it must allow the user to easily create custom hot keys and transfer those settings from one machine to another and also from one version of an app to the next version. I come from the side that thinks everyone should set up their own hot keys based on their own…
I think the biggest issue regarding baking in Blender is its lack of flexibility. :/ I dont think they could have found a faster and easier way to bake maps (2 or 3 clicks and you are done ) but it is quite restrictive in the fact that you cant use cages, average normals or flip channels before rendering so to be usable…
I will agree that the 3d cursor is pretty useless if you only know how to set it with LMB. It comes in super handy when you need to rotate or scale from a particular spot, though. Let's say that I want to put my rotation pivot at a particular vertex. In Maya you would press E to get the rotation tool, then hold D and V to…