Hello @Surfa ! Thank you so much for the thorough investigation and report. The registry side of things is consistent with what I've read online earlier, and matches what I am getting from a fresh install on a separate machine combined with running blender -r. And on this test machine ... the Explorer thumbnail previews…
Pheewww...almost done!! Can't wait to finish this dogdamn rig and start animating her! This interhsip is realy tiresome and it's tough keepng track of personal project.-_- Anyway,here ya go, my first very first project inside of Blender. Some probably followed the evolution of this thing since a few pages now haha. You may…
They get a lot of money from donations, as well as selling tutorial videos. I think they also keep development costs low by outsourcing a lot of the work to people for free, who are willing to work on it just for the sake of improving the tools they use. People can also sell addons for it, but I don't think the Blender…
@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…
LookDev is basically Eevee, but with instant HDRIs built-in for faster material, reflections etc. viewing. Once you enable both "Scene Lights" and "Scene World", it's identical to "Rendered" which is Eevee if you have Eevee selected instead of Cycles. Also, if you're working with a heavy scene with lots of caclulated…
Touching up on your post... There have been a couple of catalyst which indicate a change in direction for Blender, and that's kind of what I have been betting on. Signs include the proposal by Ton regarding the future of Blender and the ongoing dialog between Valve and Blender (hinting at some sort of steam/steamworkshop…
I'm neither a Blender apologist nor a Blender hater. I think they're doing some good stuff with their latest updates and I think they're on track to put out a really good piece of software. However, those statements are complete and absolute utter bullshit and here are a few reasons why: - In every 3D program I've used…
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…
I don't think you'll see any of that change Vig. Pretty sure the blender community is larger than any other user base, and well, there is a certain stigma to 'free' that will never go away. I really don't get it though. For all the anti-blender talk I see regarding the app and its community, there's just as much ignorance…
@Prime8 Works like a charm with both blending two normal maps and flipping the Y-channel with "RGB Curves", thank you a lot. My normal maps were already having X+, Y- and Z+, so I inverted the curves to get Y+. I tested this on my previous character porject's hoodie. It has albedo (base color), metalness, roughness and two…