No it is free but there is an option to donate via paypal. Some people believe that Blender needs a commercial pillar to mature, e.g. professional addons maintained by paid developers, and I am fine with that. But personally I have a different philosophy. TexTools is free to use, copy the code or learn from. All I want is…
I totally agree, Jonathan. More often than not I find that Blender has a negative reputation among many professionals and though it is getting better, it is still a problem. I have been using Blender for years and have been flamed out of BlenderArtists/elysiun on numerous occasions for suggesting features or improvements…
I'm trying to recreate this OSL node setup from Max in Blender. I've loaded the OSL script in Blender, but it doesn't work and I'd rather not use OSL anyway as it doesn't support GPU. Basically, I have 2 displacement maps: 1 baked from Zbrush with a 0 mid-point, and the other is a 3-channel RGB map that I painted in Mari…
@musashidan I will watch these, thank you for sharing your findings with us. I'll watch it next week though, since I need to start preparing for a trip now. I'm so slow haha...But learning new software is exciting! During the creation of this bolt head, these were my main concerns during the modeling: * Any one-button…
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…
Alright just felt the need to chime in here on the debate on Blender developers. I can clearly see where you are coming from. I have had several discussions with Ton about how I think Blender should work and getting rejected always leaves me frustrated. However I really must say that the Blender developers are the most…
I downloaded Blender 2.8 yesterday and was looking into adding my own scripts to custom keyboard hotkeys, but there are gaps in my understanding that the Blender documentation isn't explaining well enough to a dumbass like me. For starters, all the scripts I've been finding that should be printing stuff somewhere aren't…
@pior Thank you for the informative answers :) I'm really learning a lot from your inputs, you being the Blender user with more experience in knowing how all the systems relate with each other. For the pivot thing, I was just looking for a Pivot-To-Bottom solution because it's something I do pretty frequently in my work.…
Surprise this hasnt been posted yet.... but theres been some communication between Valve and the Blender Foundation. Here are two quotes, one from Valve and the other Ton. Hi everyone, I work for Valve (http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/). We would like to make our digital distribution platform Steam…
Err, plenty of people change Max's UI to that of Maya, or Maya to XSI or ZB to that of Maya navigation, so don't give me any of that sass of "Each to their own" line. Some of us would like a certain amount of resemblance to the software we're using, even if it's something as simple as Quad Menu's, so I don't see what the…