Blender 2.35 Released 29
meestaplu writes "After several months of development work, Blender 2.35, the latest version of an open source professional 3D modeling, rendering, and animation program has been released. The new version adds a full undo system, better mesh modeling, curve deformations, and many bugfixes. The program boasts an active user community at Elysiun.com, where new users are sure to find the help they need. Development happens at Blender.org."
Curve deformations? (Score:2, Funny)
Donations (Score:2, Funny)
full undo? (Score:5, Interesting)
Now if only there was a way to switch it between windowed and fullscreen mode... from within blender. Well, actually, running it in windowed mode then letting the kde kwin window manager manage fullscreen works, but windowed mode should be the default.
I work all the time with GIMP and Blender open at once, people don't even knoq you can do that half the time... because the windowed flag to blender on the command line is so obscure in this day and age of pointy clickiness.
If you are eternally pissed off by blender's amiga-like-only-without-the-vital-ability-to-flip
P.S. Blender people: why not put a "minimise" button in the top right hand corner even in fullscreen mode that switches off the screen grab and minimises the application in the usual fashion.
Re:how to do change the coordinate system ? (Score:2)
Re:how to do change the coordinate system ? (Score:2)
aaaah. (Score:5, Interesting)
im currently using it with a simple self-written python script to export meshes (with animation) and load them in my opengl app. for free.
never saw an easier and faster interface (if you get used to it) in any other package.
i think im using it since version 1.25. sometime 1998 or something. and the original manual is a treasure
greetings ton
Re:aaaah. (Score:1, Interesting)
Vertex painting is particularly cool with a tablet+stylus.
Re:aaaah. (Score:2)
Re:aaaah. (Score:2)
But after I bought a Mac and installed Blender, I discovered that the mouse cursor is very nearly the same color as the background color in the editing windows. After a period of being constantly annoyed at how easy it was to lose the cursor, I ended up giving up.
Which leads me to ask, has the cursor color changed recently?
Re:aaaah. (Score:1)
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Colour theme (Score:1)
my 'pinions (Score:2, Interesting)
I'm all about Processing (http://www.processing.org/ [processing.org]) these days. Not the same at all, but arguably neater.
a real "undo" feature?? (Score:3, Funny)
Real men don't need an undo feature -- the get it right the first time
In all seriousness, I have been waiting too long for blender to include one -- I know it must have taken a good bit of programming to implement, so kudo's to all those involved with the project.
Blender is cool, but... (Score:3)
My only gripe about the Blender is, that the user interface is so damn slow. I don't understand how it can be so slow. The UI is actually completely unusable in my 1700MHz laptop (with only 256 MB of RAM, I know it's not enough for real work, but still, I expect that the UI would be more responsive).
Is there any way to speed the UI up, besides buying a faster machine and more memory?
Re:Blender is cool, but... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Blender is cool, but... (Score:1)
the GUI is made in OpenGL, if i'm not mistaken.
It makes it very portable. And slower.
Re:Blender is cool, but... (Score:1)
Re:Blender is cool, but... (Score:1)
Re:Blender is cool, but... (Score:2, Informative)
Unicode support (Score:1)
this is huge (Score:2, Interesting)
for anyone who has messed with it just a little but never got a grasp of using it, there are some great divx videos available on http://www.blender3d.org. With this, one can become extremely proficient, seeing somebody with skill actually use the program. 3D is hard to learn because so few