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…
I see blender not as the most powerful polycrunching tool out of the bunch, but definately the most flexible and lightweight of all of them, and I still can't find better uw tools out of the box in any of the other applications. I wouldn't try to bring in any heavy meshes into blender for baking though :) hopefully that's…