Okay, first question: where's 'connect'? as in: select two adjacent edges, split them and connect the resulting verts into a new edge If all we have is this knife, then my forray into Blender is over before it started, heh
Do you by any chance know if all this nested shortcut-stuff (ie. pressing a hotkey to get a list of options) can be bypassed in the upcoming 2.5 by hotkeying only specific options out of those lists? For some things I like being given the option everytime, but for things like Connect I can see that being tiring.
MightyPea: Ctrl+R- adds new edgeloop (wheel will let you select the number of cuts) And if you want something like wings connect tool, you must select those two , or more edges and hit W and select subdivide from list.ou can also do this by hittin W and then 1. but as in blender there are no ngons this will result in…
pior, that is the 2.5 alpha version http://www.blender.org/download/get-25-alpha/ as the name suggests it's still lacking some things, and has bugs, but you'll be able to feel how new and fresh blender feels in this version. the ui and message system in blender was rewritten for just this, everything should, and if it's…
Blender itself runs fine without additional Python scripts. I recall the included scripts running without a full install, but your correct that it has been a long time since I checked. From a practical standpoint, the size of Blender could balloon quite a bit and still be very manageable. A 1 gig USB drive is going to set…
@Pea, I find the Knife quite versatile really. It can do many of the things that connect can, just in Blenders own way :P After cutting the mesh, you can select 2 edges and then constrain the axis by hitting X, Y or Z and then S to scale across the axis...this will emulate pinch. (you can also designate the amount of pinch…
The fast load time is freaking awesome. It's not a 'selling' feature, but yea, after loading max multiple times a day on my work machine, blender is lightning fast. I hope they can maintain this as development continues. As for the knife tool, I'm going to have to give it a 'meh'. It's an ok tool, but the popup really has…