Comments on: Blenderart Magazine #17 now available - "Lights, Camera, Action!"

By: Sandra Gilbert

Sandra Gilbert — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 02:06:31 +0000

You can send me your email and I can send you a a copy that way, also try using 7-zip to unzip it, that fixed it for celldrifter.

sandra@blenderart.org

By: pictorali

pictorali — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:37:31 +0000

Wonderful stuff you're doing here. It's a great service to the community.

By: Squamashii

Squamashii — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:13:22 +0000

I have tried downloading the magazine from every one of the mirrors, but they are all "corrupted." Does anybody know how I can view the magazine? I noticed Celldrifter is having the same problem - anyone else?

By: Faquin

Faquin — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:30:01 +0000

BlenderArt is one of the greatest piece of documentation on Blender.
Now the question is : Why is it, still, after 17 issues, the UNofficial Blender Magazine ?

By: Spamagnet

Spamagnet — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:54:39 +0000

@Sandra: Thank you (and the other contributors) so much for doing this! I am amazed at how good this material is. I wish I was a better artist so I could take full advantage of it.

@Bart: Thanks for your time and effort on this web site. It is one of a kind.

To all those who contribute: There will always be some people who are not satisfied, who think that their own needs are more important than everyone else's, or who think that *everything* having to do with Blender must be done at no charge. There are many more of us who are very grateful for all you do.

By: mk

mk — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:27:48 +0000

Censored Truth: Guy honestly! If you want FULL documentation learn the software and document the features yourself(by your incessant ranting Im assuming your relatively new to 3d so you probably lack even the proper grounding in the features )… OR for a few thousand dollars buy Maya or 3ds MAX, and then you'll have all the documentation you'll ever need

If you think by not properly documenting blender is holding a lot back from you, go check the price of an equivalent commercial package and then come back and have the balls to complain! The dev's who write blender owe you NOTHING!

plus there are just soo many FREE tutorials not to mention bassams amazing dvd that is even avaiable for free if you so wish!! It just strikes me as odd how you would'nt be able to atleast figure it out… you know?

By: BenA

BenA — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:38:17 +0000

I love this magazine. Very well written and very well designed.

By: De_Dood

De_Dood — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:57:51 +0000

Thanks for once again a very interesting magazine.
I'm always impresed by the amount of useful information it contains.

I know Blender from the time when the switch from the 1.x to the 2.x was made. At that time you could say that Blender was not the best documented application but since then it has only evolved in a positive way and at current date I think Blender is one of the best documented open source applications.
I don't know if anyone has seen the review in Linux Format 109 about Blender 2.46. In het past it always got a low rating on documentation (which I always had to disagree with) but this time it got an 9/10 (the total score was 10/10 b.t.w.).
The Blender books are (like for any application written for one specific version) so it is completly normal that some things arent the same in a newer version. If you should take a book about Flash 5 and will use it to work with the latest version of Flash, you will find out that you won't find everything like discribed in the book.
Software changes, and at the speed that Blender is developed I can imagine it's not an easy job to keep all the documentation up to date. But the release notes are always a nice starting point to get started with the new features and the Blenderart Magazine is also a great help.
I think we all should be happy we have so many active development in Blender and the wonderfull and helpfull comunity wich always helps when we come a bit short on documentation.

So thanks everyone!

By: Bernard

Bernard — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:07:41 +0000

Thanks for keeping on doing a great job over the years! 17 issues of a free downloadable Magazine make it a great collection and deserves respect and admiration :-)

By: Bart

Bart — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:41:53 +0000

@Lucas da Costa Dantas: I've asked you politely in a private email to stop your crusade here. Now you've polluted yet another post and worse, you stole Sandra's thunder with your messages. You clearly have no respect for the rules of this community and I've taken measures to prevent you from posting new comments.

I'm sorry it had to go this way.

Bart