If you're a student then you can download any Autodesk programs that you need to learn for free. Would I personally recommend purchasing any of those products for the home computer? No way, not for what they provide and certainly not with your own money (unless you just feel like giving Autodesk a lot of money). The main…
@Udjani Ahhh I finally see what you mean. It's tricky. I need to set the 3d Cursor to geomtery, set the transform orientation to Cursor, and finally set the 3d cursor position to Median point/bounding box center. Seems like creating a custom pivot is faster and simpler, but it's good to know there's this other method.…
Max 9 doesn't work properly in Win 8, and so yesterday I decided to finally learn how to model in Blender -- my experience so far: Some critical things I felt were helpful: BASIC NAVIGATION- -you can switch the view controls from trackball to turntable in the settings (in the off-chance that you use a mouse on your PC).…
@bakamund : these are all very legitimate needs imho, and there is no need to justify yourself for asking for them. There's always going to be people telling you that you don't need this or that feature, but yeah as said, no need to justify it :) As for Speedflow : if I am not mistaken the addon is not adding any feature…
Grimwolf's complaints seemed to get so many useful responses, it might be worth it to mention the features I'd like to see in case I'm wrong and you just need to hit tab-alt-tab-ctrl-shift-q in the info window, properties shelf, and 3D view respectively. Curves support: Branches. Mitering of unaligned handles. Creation of…
I think the biggest issue regarding baking in Blender is its lack of flexibility. :/ I dont think they could have found a faster and easier way to bake maps (2 or 3 clicks and you are done ) but it is quite restrictive in the fact that you cant use cages, average normals or flip channels before rendering so to be usable…
Please don't debate about the capabilities of Blender in the mega thread, create a topic and if you think that Blender lacks some feature you can suggest them here: https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/ But almost everything you mentioned already exist: - dyntopo is awesome, way better than dynamesh because it's…
Hey, thanks for the suggestions y'all. @Justo : unfortunately this is *precisely* the problem with this new paradigm. On paper/in theory it sounds great and all, the feature is here since the little triangle icon does get highlighted ... but in practice it doesn't really work (at least for me) because as soon as a…
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…
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…