Seems like the installer doesn't register the application properly. This is the fix https://blenderartists.org/t/blend-files-not-using-preview-thumbnails-in-windows-explorer/643180/7 Edit: Just a quick point you don't need to run it as admin if you only want to register it for yourself.
Thought I'd throw this up here for posterity, and in case it's useful to any other Maxxers with an itch to try Blender 2.80 ;) Vids are up to 7 now. Going to add some more in the coming weeks as I learn more..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqKoUqbzn1Q&list=PLFR9irzqqKRp7rCwrRSKE9pIIxfj0Dl7G
trust me, I've been 'reading up' on these things for the last 6 or 7 years and Im able to add a keyframe and move something about and press play etc, but anything more complex and the entire NLA/Dopesheet/Action Editor all bcome confusing and i get lost easily. sometimes things aren't meant for us.
Just to add one more quick way of doing this: * Select edges or faces where the average normal of your selection is the direction you want to extrude * Press Shift + 7 (num pad) to align the camera to the normal of the selection * Extrude in screen space and press middle mouse button if needed to snap to the common axis *…
I don't know if this has been answered but you can use the same workflow in Maya. I have to use Maya at work and it's really not that bad at all. I find that the easiest way to do it is: 1) do a Planar mapping 2) a) use Cut & Sew tool in the 3d view OR b) select edges in 3d view + Cut selected edges in UV editor 3) Unfold…
When it comes to scaling, I'm often in the situation were I cannot use Global or Local coordinates for transformation. In that cast I mainly use Normal as Transform Orientation and set Pivot Point to Active Element. Works for vertex, edge and face normals. As a keyboard shortcut you have to press S for scale and the axis…
@Deforges Well, I firmly believe 2.80 deserves plenty of tribulations. It is a fantastic piece of software(obviously free) and the devs are doing a great job in transforming it into a serious option in the industry(not sure what point you're making about Max Proboolean, though?) The baked results are all I'm interested in.…
There are requests that have already been implemented with 7 upvotes and requests that still not in developement with 400. I got the impression that it's mostly not about number of upvotes, but whether developers consider a feature important enough to add and (especially) easy enough to implement (for example no one is…
I learned Modo in about 30 minutes, no exaggeration. However i came from using Lightwave for about 8 years prior, and Modo is built on a lot of the LW stuff, its basically everything good about LW but without all the bad(i haven't used LW since about version 6 or 7 so it may be quite a bit better now). I think most people…
Windows 7 should work as I believe they added the custom thumbnail handlers in Windows VISTA. One thing you could try is run the disk cleanup utility and delete all the thumbnails. It might be that it cached the default blender thumbnail. Although registering a new thumbnail handler should in theory mean that it does a…