Agreed - the UI is a pain, but there are tutorials out there and a book or two. Once you get over that, it's an amazing tool for what it does for the price. Probably in the top 5 or 10 of the all time most robust feature-rich free applications out there (if there were such a list).
Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Learning Learning & Performance Solutions Join the Bank of America Flash Platform Community and visit our Instructional Technology Design Blog (note: these are for Bank of America employees only) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Glen Pike Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 7:14 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] current consensus of available Flash 3D engines? The UI is a PITA in Blender, but once you get the hang of it, you can work faster and the cheat sheets you can find are useful. My major grievance with Blender is why they don't make the save shortcut automatically save rather than showing a popup confirmation dialog under your mouse - we have lost hours of work because of that stupid idea and they still can't understand why people are frustrated by it. The Blender UI design philosophy is cited somewhere in their website and it's basically "learn if or go somewhere else" which tends to be applied when you make a suggestion like "CTRL+S should save, not prompt". On 15/04/2010 10:54, Meinte van't Kruis wrote: > aaah Blender.. *shudders* It completely frustrated the hell out of me, in > terms > of UI and user experience. > > but still once you know it.. I guess.. people do make cool things with it > and it is free. > > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Merrill, Jason< > [email protected]> wrote: > > >>>> Now I'd really like to get my hands on Lightwave or 3DS Max. >>>> >> Blender is free and almost as good and in some areas equal (and in a few >> areas, better than those tools). >> >> Lynda.com has some really great Blender tutorials which will get you >> over the Blender interface (which is not intuitive) >> >> >> Jason Merrill >> >> Bank of America Global Learning >> Learning& Performance Solutions >> >> Join the Bank of America Flash Platform Community and visit our >> Instructional Technology Design Blog >> (note: these are for Bank of America employees only) >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Flashcoders mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
