Nothing to worry about... =) Its not cool as much as it is desperately needed. We could say the same argument about the 2.5 changes btw, that the new UI and loss of some features will "destabilize" those who spent time learning pre 2.5 blender. The fallacy of it all lays in the fact that: 1) Blender is open source and…
my experience with blender: I am a maya/ zbrush/ lightwave/ shiva user... When i joined up with a couple half- assed programmers i tried to get them into 3d and making iphone games, they were looking for free 3d software. For me to try to learn blender just to teach them 3d was a bad idea. Im comfortable with maya and…
Hey guys, I just wanted to post that Bsurfaces 1.5 has been released and its pretty outstanding. (it will be released as GLP within 5-9 months but is currently $39) Its a modeling and retopo toolset that uses greasepaint and/or bezier curves to generate surfaces. Its the commercial upgrade of the current Bsurfaces 0.9 that…
There's no way to store components to be selected afterwards (Tags/Clusters) - vertex groups in editmode - object groups in object mode both using the CTRL+G shortucut. Quad view completely useless/broken -yes, but who use it? No auto wireframe for orthographic views -what is that? Too much switching modes due to this…
Wow, Ubisoft too. It really feels like we're on the brink of a big new change. I've been putting more time into Blender myself and I'm glad to say I'm really liking it so far. Blender feels responsive, easily customizable and stupidly fast. The shortcut editor is probably my favorite comparing it to Max' and Maya's, since…
I will agree that the 3d cursor is pretty useless if you only know how to set it with LMB. It comes in super handy when you need to rotate or scale from a particular spot, though. Let's say that I want to put my rotation pivot at a particular vertex. In Maya you would press E to get the rotation tool, then hold D and V to…
I use it with the SHIFT+S, since I can select what I want and assign it, so using the RMB to position it in a non specific position seems useless (to me) having already a better way to do so. Am I missing something? I forgot that Blender is a Vertex-centric application, when you select something in vertex mode, it will be…
Here's Jed's Ultimate Guide to Smoothing a Mesh in Six Easy Steps in Blender 2.73 for Xnormal. Not for anyone in particular, just for posterity really. Step 1: Make your model and layout the UVs. This is the hard part. Here I've just got an ico sphere. Step 2: Select the model in object mode, or go into edit mode and…
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…