[HN Gopher] Blender 2.83 LTS
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Blender 2.83 LTS
Author : doener
Score : 44 points
Date : 2020-06-06 21:40 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| knolan wrote:
| I started using Blender around 2013 when we needed to make some
| exciting animations for a work project. I quickly grew to love it
| for its streamlined Jack of all trades approach to media creation
| and it's breathtaking pace of development.
|
| It's such an incredible piece of software and I would encourage
| anyone interested in working with 3D graphics and animation to
| jump in. There is a wealth of training material online.
|
| When you compare it's basic workflows to other professional
| creation software such a as CAD, Photoshop the comparative bloat
| and lack of interface fluidity in the paid software is often
| jarring. It's like comparing Vim to MS Word.
|
| For example in SolidWorks if you want to rotate the view to a
| top, front or side view you can mouse over to a widget up in the
| corner of the screen or more quickly press space and then click a
| button there to orient the view. But that window has to be closed
| with the mouse and not by hitting space again and oddly can be
| resized for no good reason resulting in a big empty mess on so
| many users installs. It's sloppy and janky design in extremely
| expensive professional software.
|
| In Blender I just have to press 1, 3 or 7 on my numpad for front,
| side or top view as those keys correspond to X, Y and Z axes.
| Wonderfully intuitive and responsive.
| amelius wrote:
| Would Blender be a good tool to do mechanical engineering (for
| manufacturing prototyping)? Or would a tool like
| FreeCAD/SolidWorks still be much preferable?
|
| EDIT: found an answer here, [1], but that was from 4 years ago.
|
| [1] https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/53293/is-
| blender...
| vz8 wrote:
| My son and I are learning Blender together. I was an avid 3DS Max
| user for many years (Kinetix, then Autodesk), and Blender is both
| impressive and a comfortable next step. Never did much with Maya,
| though there was a detour to Softimage for a few years...
|
| With a GTX 1070 video card, Blender has been quite responsive on
| a dual-monitor HD setup. Highly recommend that users try the
| Nvidia Studio Drivers. We started off using the latest game-ready
| drivers and the system was unstable, but after doing a clean
| install of the studio drivers (v 442.92), its been rock solid no
| matter what we throw at it.
| corty wrote:
| Blender has come such a long way since it went open source. Love
| it, great work, and thanks to all contributors!
| hartator wrote:
| Ha! I didn't even knew Blender was closed source at some point.
| Animats wrote:
| It was originally a commercial product. The seller went out
| of business, and the user community bought the software from
| them.
| ImprobableTruth wrote:
| It's absolutely crazy to me how fast the sculpt mode has
| improved, especially since it's mostly done by one guy!
|
| It's not going to "catch up" with zbrush, but it being integrated
| into a complete 3D suite is a huge boon. It's still missing some
| key features (e.g. polypainting, which is coming soon I think),
| but if it keeps improving at the current rate, I could see it
| being a serious contender especially in areas such as concepting.
| Jnr wrote:
| It makes me happy to see the speed at which Blender is being
| developed now. I have been following it for more than 10 years
| and it seems like it is finally starting to take over the
| industry. :)
|
| And even though I don't use it that much myself, it is one of my
| favorite FOSS projects out there. I wish Blender developers and
| community the best!
| Animats wrote:
| Nice. Users have been screaming about how much changed between
| 2.79 and 2.81. They should have called it Blender 3.
|
| The Blender 2.8x experience has too much of "where did they put
| ???". Remember, this is a 3D animation program capable of film
| quality, with UI complexity far beyond most applications. I spent
| 15 minutes yesterday looking for the "align" tool, which isn't
| where the "current" documentation says it is. That's a daily
| experience coming from 2.79.
|
| Actually, the 2.8x series is pretty good. But it obsoleted most
| of the published Blender books, of which there are many, and most
| of the user base. So a stable version, to give users some relief
| and allow the documentation to catch up, is a big win.
| punnerud wrote:
| Would love to see a feature where we can search for a
| button/setting, and Blender would highlight it. Just like
| search in DataGrip (JetBrain) for Mac.
| flafla2 wrote:
| This actually exists (press F3, with default keybindings)
| panpanna wrote:
| I love what blender has done with the interface.
|
| It's like the exact opposite of Inkscape, which gets worse by
| every release. It no longer looks like incompetency, at this
| level I suspect sabotage by a competitor...
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