The Foundry sends people out to game studios to try and sell them on the idea of Modo and Mari; I always got the feeling (based on complaints) that the Blender Foundation cares more about film than games. There is no anti open source conspiracy, the studios I've been at have used plenty of open source software.
Shift+Space in Blender lets you maximize whichever viewport your mouse is over, whether it's something for which that would be useful, like the graph editor or the node editor or the 3D view, or something for which that would not be useful, like the outliner or timeline. It's quite easy to get the real estate you want when…
You don't have to master an application to determine if you like using it. I loved Modo from the moment I started it up. I don't like Blender, and I usually throw in the towel in under 15 minutes every time I try to learn it. Basically, you should try every app. Run through a few tutorials. If you're not liking what you're…
Editing custom normals haven't been implemented yet, but it's a work in progress I guess. But I haven't noticed that Blender is recalculating normals when switching between edit and object modes, because you can control them by yourself (flipping normals inside or out in the edit mode, and the object mode shouldn't have…
Don't forget Modo Indie is out now as well, which is a full featured and commercially viable version of the original Steam Edition. Minor limitations include: 100k poly export limitation, no current plugins and modo specific save files are restricted to the steam id. Regarding Blender, its still lacking the polish and even…
Just curious, why nobody mension Houdini for this king of work ? with H14 out now and Engine it's pretty domn powerfull ! Anyway, First post here, let say it, i really don't get all these sheeps flowing along Autodesk, Maya or Max just because it's standard... Are we artist or not ? are we forced to use the AB pencil just…
I have an impression that many good tools/ideas appears nowadays as open source ones at first and then commercial big boys do something better . Like content aware thing in Photoshop that came 6 years after similar "Resynthesizer' plugin had appeared for Linux version of Gimp. Or any photo-stitching . exposure adjusting…
Not really equatable due to various factors associated with Blender, including but not limited to its licensing model and the lack of proper product support. There is a certain truth to successful commercial software... and thats that it has to be used. If someone wants to use Modo but doesnt know if it will be used in a…
Having used all three to some extent, here's my opinion. Gonna make some enemies here, but I'd say Maya is hands down the worst. It's not necessarily a terrible program, but most of the tools outside animation are dated and weak, and many options straight-up aren't there, requiring scripts and plugins to get around. UV…
That I see is the same as pressing on the cogwheel icon on the upper right of the viewport (they moved these options from where I remember them). Anyway, the Orbit Selected is the contrary of what I meant. I intend a system that let you focus where you want independently of what you have selected.…