@walkonsky i am interested in improving working with the view aligned to a selection (CTRL Numpad 7 by default i believe). right now if i use that and finish my work i end up looking at the world at some odd angle, have to reset the view and go to where i was again. instead i want to be able to toggle back out of aligned…
PolyHertz The 'Summer of code' project for sculpting, painting, multires, and 7 other projects just started, I'm mentoring the coder doing the sculpting work. I've established a sculpt feedback team at the blenderartists.org forum http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=186339 and a work list for our features we…
@melviso you said you're not that familiar with the node editor, so it would be a great way to learn if you tried to recreate that node tree by following the images. This is a 7 min tutorial on some basics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zrd37k2tJM Additional things you need to know: - Shift + A to get the menu with all…
Hello, sorry this has definitely been asked before, but not sure how to explain what I'm trying to do. It's a workflow question of sorts... I made an Axe in Blender and baked the high poly to a low poly. Within that model I want different parts of it to have different materials, for example in the handle there are bits…
I always found that blender was just a huge pain in the ass to use. I'm all for open source programs but I think they should take the proven designs of other popular software and build upon that instead of being different just because they can. I'm sorry but why do I need to hit a hotkey every time I want a selection box?…
@renderhjs That's a great way of doing it too! I'll need to add that shift+7 to my brain shortcuts, since it's a very powerful tool to have. Thank you for sharing this! Working limited to an angle threshold can sometimes not be ideal for all meshes and shapes, that's why I like having manual control of everything, anytime.…
@pior Correct. On my system (Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit) it's possible to open multiple versions of Blender, select object(s) from any of them then copy and paste them into other versions. Just tested this functionality again to confirm with all the versions that are currently installed on this system. All 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…
Ok here we go. This is the first time ever I defend a 3D software. I totally understand your take on this because I was exactly like you; I didn't know the software and thought a lot of things had to change. But that's, I think, because I was still in my Maya/Max workflow and mindset. I'm not sure if you've ever seen this…