• 2005
  • April
  • 03
  • Yay, Blender builds (The Gentoo gnomes quietly fix another annoyance...)

Yay, Blender builds (The Gentoo gnomes quietly fix another annoyance...)
Written by on in Tuxedo.


The Blender build has been broken on my box for ages, but I'm so hard-wired to using 3DSMax that I never bothered to figure out why while I still had Windows about. Blender's keyboard-requiring interface is extremely non-intuitive to me... I learn the keyboard by pointing at what I want to do and being told what to type to get it, having to read a huge tutorial just to figure out how to do the simplest things is not kosher. I don't use the packages often enough to keep all this suff memorised, and really, I shouldn't have to IMO.

Anyway, it's built now, so I suppose one of these days I'll bite the bullet and figure out all the shortcut keys (again). I really do want to start creating some redistributable VRML97 content for OpenGLContext.

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  1. x

    x on 04/03/2005 8:40 p.m. #


    I took the time to learn a fair bit of Blenders interface once. Liked it quite a bit. It was fun. Yes, really severely obtuse interface, but it made a sort of sense after a while. But, lately when I've installed it every once in a while, like you, I can't remember how to do hardly anything. I can create a polygon an rotate it maybe after several attempts at the wrong keys. Which is sort of annoying. So I stop. And recall how fun it was once upon a time.<br />
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    I also used to play with 3DS Max long ago... like I think version 3? I can't even remember.<br />
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    You should try out some of the other packages out there these days. Try that Java one i fiddled with one day way back when... what was it called? AOI... i remember the letters... ah yes. <a href="http://www.artofillusion.org/">Art of Illusion</a>. And of course KDE graphics package comes with a POV front end... which no doubt isn't the most advanced thing on earth... (i don't recall ever having looked at it!) but it's probably already installed more than likely.<br />
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    Ah, but you want VRML support, of course... not sure about POV, but surely it's there... AOI seems to have VRML output of <a href="http://www.artofillusion.org/docs/pluginstut/index">some sort</a> also.<br />
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    I mean, depending how "into" the modelling you're going to get these days. One of these simpler, less feature-ful, modellers might be good enough for tinkering with quickly every once in a while. <br />
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    But, of course, Blender has python scripting.... <br />
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