Comments on: Blender Foundation Releases Blender 2.5 Alpha 0

By: Francis

Francis — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:49:22 +0000

Ladies and gentlemen

I hope you will all reach for your nearest mug of coffee or tea, beer or whatever and join me in a toast to the developers.

It’s a monumental release, thankyou.

:-)

(And a lot of my stuff is rendering twice as fast!)

By: Milad Thaha

Milad Thaha — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:32:55 +0000

Really exciting work fellow blender brothers :D you’ve made one fantabulous piece of software! keep up the incredible work :D

By: Piotr

Piotr — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:47:54 +0000

Woooooh!
So exciting moment!
This new interface seems to be the most usable tool I have ever seen!

By: SoulVector

SoulVector — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:30:56 +0000

@Allan Chief

If you use “Alt + scroll wheel” it works. It is probably (hopefully) customizable.

By: djallalnamri

djallalnamri — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:13:23 +0000

works on ubuntu 9.04
strange why it worked the first time on ubuntu 8.04 then would not work anymore although i re-extracted files several times…well it is just a start after all

By: jdub

jdub — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:14:10 +0000

@Anber
Hi there… thanks for the reply. I’ll have to keep an eye out on the autosave folder. I just deleted my 2.5 folder and re-extracted the folder in a different location and so far, I’ve been able to re-open Blender!

Thanks for your help and happy Blending :)

By: madturtle

madturtle — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:43:28 +0000

@blenderguy2008 as i started first time the new blender i hit several times the spacebar and was wondering that i didn’t get the admenue. Meanwhile i know it is the shift-a key to get it.Do the new window concept make it easy for max and maya people to switch over ? Fine – more prof for the community and blender!
I use only a small part of blenders possibilities and it took a lot of my time to get there.But i think the are going the right way with the new blender -also if it will take me again a lot of my rare free time to get trough.
….and i call it life-long-learning!

By: blenderguy2008

blenderguy2008 — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:31:17 +0000

I have no doubt that the new windows arrangement would be a benefit overall. However without a good documentation it will be a guessing game of how to do stuff. Imagine to model, texture,rigging and then animate your work without a clue where all those commands are ! Imagine a Pianist playing a keyboard where all keys have a new location….pretty much all his skills are gone forever….trying to unlearn something is a very hard task. Three options I would suggest:

1) Write a Solid documentation about the interface
2) Make a quick button to keep using the old interface for old Blender users, so we can switch back and forth until we get the whole point.

3)If you have to unlearn..then why no to invest all this time learning the interface of 3D max or Maya?

I do not want to be offensive but the truth, just splitting windows will take you some time in Blender 2.5 for previous users, sometimes it splits, some times it joins? It seems that the new interface where made to keep happy Maya users? 3D max users?…what about old blender users who have bought books and CDS learning it…now..PUFF ! all is gone…starting again?…….. I do not think so. Imagine people around the world that do not speak English? For them it would be a lot harder….you are kicking then out.

By: djallalnamri

djallalnamri — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:10:16 +0000

well now it doesn’t work anymore!

By: dyebon

dyebon — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:27:32 +0000

Can someone help me with how to set up background images properly Please. I know i have to open the image in uv editor. i’m having problem setting up two views with two different images(front and right). This is making my hair fall off, Please help.