[creasia]

I have just visited the Blender site showing the release of 2.46, with some powerfull new features. I am wondering if the new hair feature can be exported properly into maxwell?

[piem]

nope, and it's normal imho.



I'm afraid that you'll have to convert the whole hair to polygons.

but I'll will make use of clipmaps and instances for things like that, especially for stills images. for sure.

[KRZ]

blender...the most advanced criple in software history.


...i hope in next release we get customization. how can i take a programm serious that doesnt care about its user? i never understood why they give all that such a low priority. i try evey bigger release and everytime i get this feeling that a nerdy Q!"§$"§&QWQ-hole is laughting at me and calling me stupid just because my brain refuses to think like this one guy who "invented" that gui/workflow.

[-Adrian]

Agreed, it's exactly the reason Adobe products are so popular (and relatively expensive). They just work as you expect to.

[tom]

Agreed, it's exactly the reason Adobe products are so popular (and relatively expensive). They just work as you expect to.

Hehe... Photoshop can't even rotate an image properly.

...my brain refuses to think like this one guy who "invented" that gui/workflow.

I hear when someone complains like this because first time with Blender I've felt the same but I soon realized it's just excellent. You just need to rub the prejudice and think positively.

[Bubbaloo]

How much can it's users demand? It's free, right?

I can see if you have purchased an expensive program, you have the right to complain and ask for improvements...

If you think it is not what it should be, you could always write your own program!

(This post in jest.)

[Rickyx]

...i hope in next release we get customization.
...
my brain refuses to think like this one guy who "invented" that gui/workflow.

Next version have a new event system.
Total refactoring.
UI customization (shortcuts, macro, custom commands...) and GUI customization.
You will be able to have the interface and commands of Maya or Maxwell GUI.
To know more about: http://www.blender.org/development/curr ... since-245/


The GUI is based on a non modal interaction.
"non modal interface" has been teorized by Jef Raskin ( http://jef.raskincenter.org/ )

...an American human-computer interface expert best-known for starting the Macintosh project for Apple Computer...

Ciao,
Ricky
Ps. unfortunately jef.raskincenter.org seems down right now...

[giacob]

hey guys be patient...
.. blender is an amazing piece of free sofware.....
about the workflow...one just have to get used to it....i swear it is easy...
i could learn it myself. and i use 3dmax and lw...so figure out...
if u dont get use to it ... honestly u can just blame yourself...

[creasia]

I have been looking to an alternative for 3DS Max for a long time, as I am funding my business out of the family budget. The price of Autodesk products are just getting more and more unreasonable to keep up to date. When my part time business only makes just over $10,000 a year why should I spend half of it on software?

I look forward to this new GUI, but will Next Limit will ever take development of a Blender exporter seriously? We have seen that it exports UV maps, but I'd love to see instances and textures render right out of the program.

I still can't get the hang of using blender, I have managed to import and render a couple models, but with 12 years of every kind of computer graphics software usage behind me, you would think that I could figure it out.

[Rickyx]

. I am wondering if the new hair feature can be exported properly into maxwell?

Anyway you can apply the modifier by pressing "Convert" button in the modifier panel.
This will make your hair become edges...
than it is up to you to create the geometry that fits your needs.

Ciao,
Ricky

[codygo]

a bit off topic but, the rotation issue is an effect of low resolution and bicubic sampling. Take that same image and upsample to 300dpi before rotating and you'll get the expected result. besides, who edits at 72dpi.

That said, I do think that photoshop doesn't draw pixels with the sampling precision of programs like alias sketchbook.

[tom]

Codygo, you suggest oversampling and it's something else. In pixel graphics, there is no DPI. DPI is a device dependant output measurement unit. In bitmap graphics, there is only absolute resolution and 1:1 aspect pixels. The algorithms for rotating, scaling, skewing, stretching them are always same independent of resolution applied. As the pixels are perfectly grid-aligned, 45 degrees rotation will always orient them diagonally without introducing artifacts.

This has nothing to do with the resolution. Using high resolution and downsampling is nothing else than attempting to hide behind this accuracy problem of Photoshop. I assume with saying 72 dpi, you refer to screen graphics and I make you sure screen graphics is and will always be extremely important as long as we develop icons, games, user interfaces etc on a pixel based screen.

The example above was very simple and clearly shows the bug in Photoshop. Today, I've seen this problem in no other application. If you want some names, Corel's PhotoPaint, Irfanview and even freeware Paint.NET can rotate this example perfectly without any crappy look along the edge. Oh, me? I still use Photoshop, too but I definitely avoid these bugs and also use other applications to compensate these problems. My point was, Photoshop's fame is not enough to make it decent.

Now, if you feel convinced I'm always ready to post the next bug.

[big K]

post it anyway tom.
it is always good to know about the flaws.

[Rickyx]

I look forward to this new GUI, but will Next Limit will ever take development of a Blender exporter seriously? We have seen that it exports UV maps, but I'd love to see instances and textures render right out of the program.

...propose a bounty for it !

[KRZ]

guys im just /facepalming,...im not complaining think about it...dictatorships are very efficient...for some.