That's a gross misrepresentation there, Calabi. A great deal of Blender's development happens in at the Foundation and all people keep in contact through IRC. Every two years, the Foundation gets a bunch of artists together in Amsterdam to make a short movie, with the programmers sitting mere meters away from the artists.…
If the LHC operating controls were anything like Maya/Max, all those doomsayings of it malfunctioning and causing black holes devouring the earth would probably have come true :p .
Sure, but probably not before we evolve some single unified political system, unified language, unified religion, and unified choice of beverage. People like their Pepsi/Coke arguments too much in this industry.
http://www.newtek.com/lightwave/core/ Looks like an app for modelers. Apparently the interface is designed with some Nokia OS? Supports CSS options and is fully customizable, things like that. I haven't read all of the crap on it yet.
Given the incredible diversity of human taste, as well as the competitive edge that comes from breaking away from the norm, I doubt this will ever happen. No matter how good any one program may be, sooner or later someone will decide that they would prefer something else. And if there is a demand in the market, some clever…
What aesir described is basically what I meant by a "super program". But just to clear things up, I'm not for or against the idea. I was just was curious how everyone else felt about the idea. And it wasn't really a "should they or shouldn't they make a program like this", but rather, will it ever happen? I was thinking of…
The reason why some of the guys here keep mentioning Blender, is because you can do everything you just described in Blender, right now. Build your low-poly mesh, sculpt it out into a high-res mesh, unwrap your original low res mesh, create a texture, paint on that texture by painting directly to the 3D model in the 3D…