This idea that the blender developers are insular and that bugs take a very long time to be fixed is ignorant. I have reported multiple bugs and gotten responses quickly everytime, one of my friends who codes addons for blender has gotten coding bugs fixed within hours of telling the devs about it. They are constantly…
Also, jsut found this about next release: ''This is a proposal for work focus on blender.org for the coming year. I’ve written this because we keep missing bigger development targets – we don’t have enough time for larger projects. Instead too much time goes to releases, bug fixing, reviews, maintenance and support topics.…
They can be nested. Here's a chart of a Pie Menu that has Nested Pies. This is part of the Wazou's RMB Pie Menu Addon (with minor edits on my end). It is context sensitive and this is what you get when you are in Sculpt Mode (other thigs pop-up in other Modes). So this demonstrates how this Pie Menu is Context Sensitive…
I have moved but still have to use 3d max to save files for work. Doing most of my modelling in Blender. Moved before Max bought Graphite tools, node based materials, shader fx, and so on. Before that Max was so behind of Blender, crashy, slow and bugs infested so it was just a matter of getting accustomed. Now Max…
I think there's plenty of people that do that. A lot of people try Blender because of the fact that it's free and then I think when they are financially doing better or hit a frustrating point with Blender they decide it's time to invest in a commercial package. Whether that's right or not is up for debate. My frustration…
There are indeed many ways to remap/modify this kind of default behavior, but it does require a little bit of advanced know-how with the input editor. This is probably best kept for a little later, ie for a time when you are even more familiar with the program. That being said : the XYZ manipulator can be (and in my…
Yeah, I've tried it. It wasn't much of an update really, just ported it to 64bit. But it also got some new bugs, I had reported them but never got a response from NC, and they never fixed them. Went back to Silo 2.2b (32bit) from 4-6 years ago, that one is more stable. I can't see what NC could do, even if they had…
Been trying really really hard to to prepare for my educational license of Maya runrunning out, but rotating on an axis in Maya mode is basically impossible
I think the slow development on the part of the UI Team is down to the amount of time they have spare to work on it. Remember that the Blender Foundation is not paying for work on that area (insert snark about BF priorities here). They are (or were) slotting this in between tasks that pay the bills. It's a big job which is…
If indie got some of the more useful scripts (Seneca, etc.) along with Substance support that would go a long way to making it more appealing in my eyes. Also, I thought there already was a rounded edge shader in Modo? On the topic of Blender, one of my frustrations is looking for a feature and being directed to a custom…