Hi Campbell,
that's right - and done actively... When I see that too much has changed I
even create a new video to address the changes (as I've made with the last
one [#9] on the value input topic). Will add an annotation to the mentioned
video to reflect that too.
Greetings, Thomas
2014-02-24 21:55 GMT+01:00 Campbell Barton ideasma...@gmail.com:
While this is a good addition, videos can get outdated by changes to
behavior made just before release.
For example expression evaluation for numeric transform input is now
activated with a '=' or '*' key, so now one of the videos shows
outdated info
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pOs_AsaKEQ
Errata/updaets in videos is often resolved with some captions,
explaining the extra info, to save having to remake the entire video,
think it could be done in this case.
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 1:30 AM, Brecht Van Lommel
brechtvanlom...@pandora.be wrote:
I think these would be a great addition to the release notes, this is
fine with me.
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Thomas Beck
softw...@plasmasolutions.de wrote:
Thanks for your encouragement Howard, Paulo Piotr!
I will wait one more day and if no one is complaining I'll add a
section to
our release logs.
Many greetings, Thomas
2014-02-23 22:10 GMT+01:00 Piotr Arłukowicz pio...@inf.ug.edu.pl:
Thomas, I've never seen your videos, they are VERY welcomed and
valuable
help for many artists! Thank you!
cheers!
Piotr
Piotr Arłukowicz, PhD
University of Gdańsk, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics
Division of Artificial Intelligence, Wit Stwosz 57, 80-952 Gdańsk,
room 121
phone: +48585232125, University home page:
http://inf.ug.edu.pl/~piotao
Also: Polish Blender Course: http://polskikursblendera.pl/ [PL]
2014-02-23 22:01 GMT+01:00 Paulo José Amaro paul...@gmail.com:
Thomas, your videos are very exciting! I'm always waiting for what's
next!
:-D I think both the release notes and your videos are important,
they
has
different content and different approach. Both should be presented at
blender.org.
On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Howard Trickey
howard.tric...@gmail.com
wrote:
I like your videos and think they would help people understand the
features
of the new release as a supplement to the release log, and support
linking
to them off of that page.
On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Thomas Beck
softw...@plasmasolutions.de
wrote:
Hi friends,
In short
--
Today I'd like to propose smth.: To add a section to our release
logs
with
the sneak peek videos for the 2.70 series that I released once a
week
for
every Blender release.
You can see the playlist for the current version here (every new
version
gets a new playlist)
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfceNesfWvLUCsnw1DR2Oup8hFw5z6SB2
The longer story
--
My name is Thomas Beck, I'm the head of a small studio called
Plasmasolutions (therefore the nick) here in Germany. Many of you
know
me
at least from the #bcon13, from IRC and as a #b3d dev.
I'm teaching, using and hacking in Blender a lot and am pretty
frequent
in
touch with the user base. While talking with users I often heard
that
they
don't know many of the new features of our releases and that they
feel
like
they were taken by surprise when we changed something suddenly
and
important for them (but for us maybe not) - they are mostly not
reading
the
ML or discussing with us on developer.blender.org.
So I created a series of videos that show our current development
progress
every week, give some insight into the development and create
some
interest
in new features - and I have to say: The comments are
overwhelming
positive
- users feel more as if they were part of the development (I
know
that
they actually are, but they don't felt like that) now and that
they
could
get a feeling for new features now early.
Apart from that I'd like to give a bit of shine to the
hardworking
devs
that are often forgotten outside the dev universe - so I credit
as
much
as
I can ;)
Reading through the comments on yt and blenderartists, many are
asking
to
make that the standard way of a release log and that we (devs)
should
put
those sneak peek videos on the www.blender.org page and on the
release
notes (maybe as a new features section in companion with cool
Blend
files
that represent the features).
I absolutely don't think that this should become the standard
way of
release logging - I for myself really enjoy reading (and writing)
release
logs and have a non-videoish way to look up key combinations and
ideas
that
