Comments on: 2.5 Development Demos available on youtube

By: Darcy

Darcy — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:54:24 +0000

Awsome!! proper dual monitor suport !!

By: TX_RX_FX

TX_RX_FX — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:01:48 +0000

Looking forward to how this develops. The YouTube Videos give an idea of how it'll be implemented for sure, but somewhat weird looking until you've seen the stills on the last link. :) Looking forward to this version more and more each day!

Keep up the awesome work!

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:52:09 +0000

Holy Cow!

If this turns out the way it looks now I'm already in love with it.
That non-overlapping window layout so far was one of the major things I always hoped to - at least on a few occasions - change.
Sure the workspace is clean with it - but I do like working with overlapping windows now and then.

Also this doesn't mean the non-overlapping layout is forever gone, after all …
So far it was just a few windows being resized. ;)

By: Jacek Brzezowski

Jacek Brzezowski — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:34:07 +0000

Jen - running multiple copy of one app in OS X is also possible by… creating a copy of app itself (with changed name)! And since Blender isn't such a space consuming app it's easy to do it.

By: BEInGAmano

BEInGAmano — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:56:39 +0000

Keeping upp the wery good work Loocks greate so far.

I hope you will be abll to have Blender to maximase to current screen and not to both as of yet.

By: Kirado

Kirado — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:49:19 +0000

thanks for the hard work sounds great so far!

By: epat

epat — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:22:01 +0000

MULTIPLE WINDOWS + COMPIZ = AWESOME!! I can already spin the cube round with the tilt on my mouse's scroll wheel, so that makes it extremely quick to change window layouts etc!!… Although I suppose if screen layouts get configureable hotkeys/mouseactions, it would give the same functionality!

For all those people complaining about the videos being boring:
What you're seeing is developer tests of the redesigned underlying framework! What many non-coders don't grasp is that what these videos show, is that all of the hard hours designing and coding the framework within the application have been successful! There a whole new internal API (interface of communications between different parts of the code) going on in there. Most of the GUI you still see lacking would be dead easy to reimplement cheaply and badly, but at the moment the work is going into the internals of the program! All this means is, at the end of the day, you save countless hours hacking later at an incomplete and limiting API to try and implement some feature that won't fit with the badly designed internals! This means less code, less time, less mess, and less bugs!! - as well as the ability to even code some stuff that wouldn't have been possible before on a very fundamental level!!

~epat. :)

By: Bozo

Bozo — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:05:57 +0000

Seriously, this is interesting from a technical and development POV, but watching a video of multiple windows being resized is worse than watching paint dry. And there isn't just one, there's six (6) about that….

By: pyrosever

pyrosever — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:01:40 +0000

Finally a reason to dust off my old monitor, and set up the dual display again. I don't think I'll often use overlapping windows, but it's good that the option is there.

By: Nathan Letwory

Nathan Letwory — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:56:15 +0000

@gord: In my windows I can have as many workspaces as I want. Workspaces have nothing to do with the work currently being done for Blender 2.5.

My Windows XP with 4 workspaces: http://www.letwory.net/albums/v/oldsite/console_xoblite.png.html and in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6LDsOF7OlE my Windows Vista with 4 workspaces as well.

/Nathan