Comments on: Blender 2.5 Release Pushed to Tomorrow, Splash Revealed

By: RDH

RDH — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:09:40 +0000

Is it possible to have a changeable splash like other open software? ie: oOo, Gimp, Inkscape…etc…

By: TonyM

TonyM — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:00:29 +0000

@wolfmanyoda, to split the windows click the mouse in the corner of the window you want to split and drag inward to the inside of the window. To unite windows click the corner of the window and drag outward to the window you want to unite with.

@SomeOtherFellow, that’s an option. Check the user preferences and set smooth transitions (I think that’s the name of the field) to 0. I think the default is 250ms. I don’t have it in front of me so you’ll have to poke around a little.

By: SomeOtherFellow

SomeOtherFellow — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:46:16 +0000

Totally awesome. Can’t describe!

,except the smooth transition when you push NUM 1, NUM 3, NUM 7. Don’t like that

By: nordic616

nordic616 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:47:55 +0000

I need the current 2.50 regression suite, where can I download the files?
(or do I have to wait for the final version?)

By: wolfmanyoda

wolfmanyoda — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:17:02 +0000

Oh yeah, no server problems. Only took a couple of minutes to download.
Time to play :)

Ok, I’m totally lost. Where’s the middle mouse click to split the screen? I’ve got a lot to re-learn.

By: ovidiu

ovidiu — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:09:05 +0000

I’ve read (almost) all opinions above and I have to agree with the fact that this 2D image is not at all representative for a 3D program…

HOWEVER:
- this is only Alpha 0
- Sintel is just in the early stage of her development (same as blender 2.5)

I have a string feeling that the splash will change towards Alpha 1,2 etc , Beta 1,2,etc , RC1,2,etc and WILL followup Sindel development as well until we’ll have a 3D image of her in the final release.

At least this is my hope (hope you’re listening to this Ton ;) hehehe)

Keep up the good job!

By: Dave Heinemann

Dave Heinemann — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:45:53 +0000

Almost here, and I can even afford it hehehe! Time for a gargantuan monitor (can’t get those under GPL!!!) And maybe a 2nd GPU.

That sclash spreen would need a finer skin texture (looks mippy) and some attitude to be official. Maybe an ‘Oh yeah, why don’t you just TRY to come get it?’ type expression, even just in one eye.

Is the Alpha going to be noticeably improved over the latest Graphicall builds? They rock, but there are still some lossy bugs crawling around.

@Joel – Die hard Max user? Prepare to die… hard. They should kidnap Blender coders and force them to accept payment for what they’ve done!

Dave Heinemann, 4th year noob

By: onnevan

onnevan — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:33:49 +0000

I love Blender. It’s my favorite program and has replaced 3dsMax for me, but as I said above, I don’t like Sintel, her name nor the Splash, so what? I am not supposed to say that? this section is for comments and that’s what I’m doing. It is my personal opinion on the splash screen and it doesn’t mean anything except I’d prefer another one, the one with the city in Durian, which AFAIK is entirely done in 3d.
I’m as happy and grateful for 2.5 as anyone else, just don’t like a painted splash wich I think is more appropriate for Gimp or Mypaint.

By: Joost de Jonge

Joost de Jonge — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:24:09 +0000

still waiting for the MAC OSX 10.4 intel version.

Does somebody know if this version come??

Else I’m forced to order OSX 10.5 leopart tomorow.

By: 3dre

3dre — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:20:47 +0000

Just downloaded alpha build
http://download.blender.org/release/Blender2.50alpha/