I haven't tested the build yet, but it sounds like a pretty good start. However if I could make a request for a filebrowser feature it would be to make an actual default preset operator (just named default or whatever) that you could overwrite the settings of. If you were to open a new instance of Blender it would just…
It's good to hear that it's working well for you, Pior. Blond, this tutorial may be of interest to you as far as the scripting goes. https://cgcookie.com/blender/2013/07/12/creating-custom-toolbar-panel-python-scripting/ As for managing lots of objects you have a few options. If you want to save a set of vertices to be…
I've been using Blender almost exclusively for several years now. Granted, I haven't done nearly as much 3D modeling as I used to. (been hitting the coding and web design pretty hard) But whenever I do produce 3D work, I use Blender to do it. I won't say that its better than the big-name 3D packages. It probably doesn't…
@peris: Thanks, as mentioned on twitter I literally started studying your script which was a great start e.g. figuring out how to add active image nodes in cycles. So thanks a lot for your script. regarding: * hotkeys: Yes thinking about that, its a good point. I was thinking of having toggles in the preferences to enable…
So, it's been more than a year since 2.8 and I personally still find the new Collections to be very annoying and a waste of time. It's a constant juggle between using the interface of the M hotkey (to move objects in and out of collections), having to actually go dig inside the outliner and constantly having to…
@Prime8 Thank you, now I see what you mean! @Udjani That looks like a fast and simple method indeed! However... ...before being able to try that, I seem to have fucked up. I accidentally clicked the "-" in preferences and deleted all my shortcuts. Recovering the file is not an issue - I always save backups. The frustrating…
If I am not mistaken, when people mention the Maya pie menus they tend to do so because the Maya Hotbox (that's the name right ?) allows for near gesture-like inputs with a very snappy behavior when pointing at quarters/boxes. Whereas the modern Blender pie menus are imo really painful to use - not in terms of display…
It's basically the same thingarino as the test builds that Bastien was posting testbuilds for a while back. You now have a few more options for editing and exporting normals in 2.74. First there are the old ways of editing normals--you can mark meshes to be flat shaded or smooth shaded, or you can enable Auto Smooth and…
Not trying to belittle anyones work here, but i try out blender from time to time to see how it advances, and my gawd there are a ton of cases where it isn't consistent with it's self. Also a lot of the bmesh tools still dont work as expected. i was testing with the graphic all build of the latest trunk at the time. first…
@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.…