Most Blender Devs are and users are cool. It's the small, vocal, percentage of freetards that ruin it for everyone. If I ever opened a Blender Message board, no one who had a copy of Linux installed would be granted membership. Problem solved.
yea pior blender is a bit strange and I was a big blender hater.. but they are getting better and better and with the new gui this could be the first version where I call this my 2nd modeling app (uv stuff is still bit zzZZZzz in v2.49)
This is a common problem that many early Blender users encounter. Most programs train us to think of the top nav bar as a stationary fixture. In Blender, each different window has its own nav bar, that is contextual to what kind of window it is. The bar at the top of the program by default isn't actually a nav bar, it is…
No. And there's a lot of example like that, even conflict between the old "3 mouse button emulation" and the mouse association with shortcuts. I've the feeling they want to keep the fixed/static function of blender 2.4x, to not lose the old blender users ,with the new customizable shortcuts and it doesn't mix well.
Here is yet another video showcasing Blender 2.5. http://www.cgcookie.com/articles/blender-25-overview And Pea, I forgot to mention this last time, but the Blender people aren't usually very responsive to arguments about what 3DS Max or Maya, or others can do. That comes right from Ton. He's not making a free [insert…
I think that hybrid commercial/enthusiast/full project development is what the Blender Foundation is going for, so with any luck well see more projects like this in the future. I certainly wasnt expecting the game engine to be the beach head* for this as it is generally considered a peripheral part of Blender. I would…