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Blender 3.x roadmap

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Re: Blender 3.x roadmap

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Post by BeFlatXIII »

bschwindHN wrote: post #54
rogual wrote: post #41

I love Blender, but have been stuck on version 2.7 due to what I can only describe as some sort of icon dyslexia. For 2.8, all the Blender icons were replaced with monochromatic ones. This is a very popular trend and a lot of programs are replacing their icons in this way, so it's obviously fine for most people, and I realize this is probably a niche accessibility need I have. But, to use the new icons, I find I have…

> all the Blender icons were replaced with monochromatic ones GIMP did this too and it absolutely blows. Thankfully you can revert back to the "legacy" icons.

Is it a simple checkbox in the preferences dialogue or do I need to edit a config file for that?

Re: Blender 3.x roadmap

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Post by hwers »

doctoboggan wrote: post #8

Blender is such an amazing tool. I have a side business where I create 3d printed jewelry with my customer's fingerprints on it in gold and silver ( https://lulimjewelry.com ) and I use Blender on the backend for all of the jewelry creation. I run blender headless in a docker container on google cloud run. When needed I invoke it with an image and have a blender script "engrave" that image on the jewelry and output a…

I love how hacky this solution is (yet inspiring that it drives a business).

Re: Blender 3.x roadmap

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Post by throw_m239339 »

ralusek wrote: post #19

If there was a single feature I could see added to Blender, it would be to share more functionality between objects and collections. Blender has an organizational concept called objects, which are containers with position, scale, rotation, and they contain within them the mesh data. These can be warped, arrayed, cast, decimated, etc, through the use of non destructive modifiers. Now, these objects can be combined int…

You basically want Cinema 4D mograph. Unfortunately, Blender does not do that at all, unless you use Animation nodes addon, which works, but it's an addon.

Re: Blender 3.x roadmap

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Post by mastax »

yibers wrote: post #31

I can guess from the comments what Blender does, but I am actually not familiar with the tool. I wandered around the website provided in the link above, but didn't find a simple explanation as to what Blender is about. Perhaps adding such an explanation to the website can be useful.

Take a look at IanHubert's lazy blender tutorials: https://youtu.be/JjnyapZ_P-g. They're a minute long each, so not useful as tutorials. But they do a good job of showing generally what Blender can do, and how an experienced artist approaches solving a particular problem.

Re: Blender 3.x roadmap

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Post by dagmx »

lewispollard wrote: post #15
moffkalast wrote: post #7

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Well blender just did that exact thing going from 2.7 to 2.8 recently, although it was at least somewhat justified. But now that they've reworked it it doesn't make sense to do it again any time soon.

I feel like that move really should have been a major version bump, it was a big move across the board where many aspects of functionality changed or were removed, UI locations and naming completely changed, keyboard shortcuts and UX changes across the board, and so on. Minor bump 2.7 -> 2.8 = everything breaks, your workflow no longer functions, you have to relearn the API, online resources and documentation no long…

It was a major version number change. Per the top of the blog post here, they're switching to a new versioning system with 3.x

Prior to 3.x, the major version was the .X part and the 2 was somewhat meaningless.

E.g their versioning prior to 3.x is 2.major.minor.patch and will now switch to major.minor.patch

Re: Blender 3.x roadmap

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Post by capableweb »

g19fanatic wrote: post #39
doctoboggan wrote: post #25

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Yeah you can also have it print the python command called for every action you take in the GUI

Could you point me to some documentation for this? This has been the only hindrance for me to automate things without digging into the documentation myself

You can use the `--debug-wm` flag for that. CTRL+C when hovering a button also copies it's API action. https://docs.blender.org/api/current/info_tips_and_tricks.ht...

Re: Blender 3.x roadmap

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Post by A-Train »

xvilka wrote: post #36

I wish they would extract their GUI layer as some framework. It's so good that would be perfect for many programs.

Agree. Even yesterday I was praising Blender's node editor and I'm encouraging the developers to mimic its functionalities in a product we are building.

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Post by pdosev »

ralusek wrote: post #19

If there was a single feature I could see added to Blender, it would be to share more functionality between objects and collections. Blender has an organizational concept called objects, which are containers with position, scale, rotation, and they contain within them the mesh data. These can be warped, arrayed, cast, decimated, etc, through the use of non destructive modifiers. Now, these objects can be combined int…

Have you tried geometry nodes? It lets you use meshes from any object, allowing you to build up modifiers non linearly. I would say it covers 90% of the feature you're proposing.

Re: Blender 3.x roadmap

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

danuker wrote: post #22
vletal wrote: post #18

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They mean pub key / certificate fingerprints. Gosh... :)

Huh? Is building a database of actual finger fingerprints not worthwhile?

Not really, unless you're trying to build up a private fingerprint collection which can't be used for criminal cases anyway.

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Post by orangepurple »

onion2k wrote: post #21
thepete2 wrote: post #11

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You're right. I'm so annoyed by firefox changing its interface every once in a while instead of coming up with a good one that they can actually keep stable for years...

If Linux kernel devs had just written v5.14 first they wouldn't have needed to bother with any of the previous 90 or so releases. The fools!

Everything you need to know about Linux avoiding breaking user programs

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75

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