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Re: Blender 2.93 LTS

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Post by Wistar »

mkaic wrote: post #2

The Blender dev team never ceases to amaze me with their incredible iteration speed. It's crazy how much you can get done when you assemble a team of highly skilled, organized, and passionate people to all work on what they love full time. Blender is hands-down my favorite piece of software I've ever used. I use it for professional purposes semi-regularly, and with each new update just keeps on getting better and bet…

v2.7 was, for me, the version that got me to slowly move from 3D Max to Blender. Now, I can hardly remember 3D Max.

Re: Blender 2.93 LTS

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Post by mkaic »

flyingfences wrote: post #7
mkaic wrote: post #4

I wonder if the title of this submission ought to be just "Blender 2.93 LTS" to make it more clear what the subject of it is? Just my two cents.

I'm still completely confused what the title they chose is supposed to mean. What's ending? They don't say. I scrolled through that whole page and if just looks like their normal release showcase. Does this just mean that they're bumping up the version number to 3.0 with some big new core features? It sounds like something significant is coming to an end, like Blender isn't going to keep being Blender.

2.93 marks the last Blender 2.X release, which is significant because Blender 2.0 came out in August of 2000. 21 years of 2.X development is the "Era" they're referring to. The next major release will be 3.0!

Re: Blender 2.93 LTS

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Post by 127 »

Many new features in Blender are hyped up, but I don't think the new LTS policy really receives enough spotlight. It's exhausting trying to keep up the pipeline and addons up to date when just downloading the newest version from Blender.org. Blender just moves that fast. LTS gives people a solid foundation to build on. It's a complete blessing.

Re: Blender 2.93 LTS

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Post by can16358p »

Wistar wrote: post #11
mkaic wrote: post #2

The Blender dev team never ceases to amaze me with their incredible iteration speed. It's crazy how much you can get done when you assemble a team of highly skilled, organized, and passionate people to all work on what they love full time. Blender is hands-down my favorite piece of software I've ever used. I use it for professional purposes semi-regularly, and with each new update just keeps on getting better and bet…

v2.7 was, for me, the version that got me to slowly move from 3D Max to Blender. Now, I can hardly remember 3D Max.

I'm not professional or anything but I find 3ds max UI and way of doing things/UI/toolbars/working with geometry and keyboard shortcuts MUCH more intuitive than Blender. Everybody says Blender is awesome and I respect that, but seriously, no matter how hard I try I always end up saying "this is much easier in 3ds max". Any recommendations?

Re: Blender 2.93 LTS

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Post by franciscop »

I entered just yesterday to Blender News[1] and was wondering why there aren't any new articles in 6 months. Even Blender Guru[2] seems to have stopped for almost a year.

Does anyone have some insight on why these two stopped/slowed down? I remember these two were amazing sources of technical posts about Blender and I loved reading and learning about it there.

[1] https://www.blender.org/category/news/

[2] https://www.blenderguru.com/

Re: Blender 2.93 LTS

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Post by l3s2d »

franciscop wrote: post #16

I entered just yesterday to Blender News[1] and was wondering why there aren't any new articles in 6 months. Even Blender Guru[2] seems to have stopped for almost a year. Does anyone have some insight on why these two stopped/slowed down? I remember these two were amazing sources of technical posts about Blender and I loved reading and learning about it there. [1] https://www.blender.org/category/news/ [2] https://ww…

Blender Guru's YouTube channel has been active this past year.

Re: Blender 2.93 LTS

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Post by Wistar »

can16358p wrote: post #15
Wistar wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

v2.7 was, for me, the version that got me to slowly move from 3D Max to Blender. Now, I can hardly remember 3D Max.

I'm not professional or anything but I find 3ds max UI and way of doing things/UI/toolbars/working with geometry and keyboard shortcuts MUCH more intuitive than Blender. Everybody says Blender is awesome and I respect that, but seriously, no matter how hard I try I always end up saying "this is much easier in 3ds max". Any recommendations?

Probably to stick with 3D Max. I really like 3D Max a lot. It was my tool of choice for about 18 years but, as I stopped doing much 3D professionally, I just decided to give Blender a shot and, once I got over some of the weird UI, most of which is now fixed, I found that I liked it a lot.

Re: Blender 2.93 LTS

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Post by Phrodo_00 »

can16358p wrote: post #15
Wistar wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

v2.7 was, for me, the version that got me to slowly move from 3D Max to Blender. Now, I can hardly remember 3D Max.

I'm not professional or anything but I find 3ds max UI and way of doing things/UI/toolbars/working with geometry and keyboard shortcuts MUCH more intuitive than Blender. Everybody says Blender is awesome and I respect that, but seriously, no matter how hard I try I always end up saying "this is much easier in 3ds max". Any recommendations?

Have you tried it after 2.7? I'm not familiar with 3d modeling, but I heard a lot of people praising the UI changes for that release
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