http://blenderartists.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=82244&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1250867402

http://flowplayer.org and go to the streaming tab and click play ;)

I’ll lick my wounds and perhaps try your advice soon.

Wish me luck!

=)

However, I’m thinking that you might want to add a thread to a blender forum. That would be easier to track then posting comments here. Of course your ideas might be pounded to a bloody pulp even more than here.

You might also want to think about adding an enhancement request or posting a patch. That would allow the developers working on blender to have a chance to see what you want.

1. The free downloadable version would have a top right Blender logo/name ’stamp’;

2. DVDs (pre)sold would have no top ’stamp’.

Of course, it would be up to the community to enforce commercial demo makers to user the video version with the Blender logo/name ’stamp’ in the top right corner of their demo.

But I’m sure I’ll just be called a troll for suggesting a way of pushing the Blender ‘brand’ into sightings… or encouraging the … ‘We are not blender ‘customers’, we are the blender community’ – ‘members’ to contribute to the Foundation and development of Blender by pre-ordering a DVD or buying it later.

Whatever – I’m just suggesting ideas to what Jonathan, possibly Muki, and likely many readers understand to be a possibly problem or at least a wasted opportunity – the lack of attribution to Blender in these sightings.

Feel free to be a troll, zealot, niave whatever, and squash these ideas.

It’s people like you who would have originally been against the:

1. splash screen;
2. Name ‘Blender’ in the top of the app;
3. The http://www.blender.org URL under the name and in the app;
4. Even visual iconic buttons in Blender now.
5. And possibly Blender in the subtitle and credits of the videos.

I’m trying to be constructive. Not all my ideas are perfect – some are designed to provoke better ideas from others.

But there seems no harm in:

6. Having a top right corner Blender logo/name in at least some of the Foundation Video project renders;
7. Swapping 1 buttons icon in Blender for the Blender logo.

Each idea would help make Blender sightings more identifiably sightings of Blender – to those like me who have been using it for years and to potential users.

Sorry if I seem to have resorted to insults somewhere, but I was taken aback by the level of immaturity/troll/zealot like responses to a few ideas.

Blender is only getting better because its developers are listening to the community more.

I remember a time when people argued for Blender to first load up with a light and camera – or was the argument for Blender to load up with a cube and isometric view not a plane and orthographic view?

Just so a few ‘noobs’ could find Blender easier to pick up.

Been a long time here, since NaN days, and seen many good ideas shot down by trolls and zealots, but eventually some of those ideas have got into Blender.

Some day, the community will start to match the maturity of Blenders functionality.

In the meantime, the zealots and trolls continue to scare away new ideas, people, and possible financial contributions that could make Blender better sooner.

I suggested the ideas to get discussion going on how to help make Blender sightings show that Blender was used.

Not for people like you who already know Blender made the demo.

For potential new users.

The ticker ideas was just a joke to provoke ideas – not squash them as you are attempting.

I prefer the last idea I suggested – of a small Blender logo in the top right corner of Blender project videos.

TV channels do it often so that viewers remember the brand.

As I wrote – it’s a small price to pay for something free considering the majority of the ‘community’ contributes very little to the Blender foundation.

And as for having a Blender logo as a button icon inside Blender, for example, as the window switcher button icon – are you seriously against this?

You sound like the type of person/troll who would be against the Blender app splash screen, the name ‘Blender’ appearing at the top of the app, and the http://www.blender.org url appearing inside the app currently.

Or perhaps the Blender logo hurts your eyes now?

Or is it that any of the icons in Blender hurt your eyes?

What is the ‘visual harm’ of having just 1 of the existing icons in Blender be swapped for the Blender icon and not customisable by users from 2.5?

The benefit is – it could help more users identify Blender in demos and thus help Blender get more donations etc… and ultimately survive.

A small price to pay for software that you normally pay nothing for.

Of course, you are heroically welcome to strip all button icons from 2.49 and upload this to graphicall.

I’m sure it would be uber popular!

All of your ideas are useless. You’re missing one vital point:

We are not blender ‘customers’, we are the blender community.

Haven’t you noticed that virtually every animation available which was made in blender is labelled as such by the creator? We don’t need gimmicky space-hogging widgets in the GUI to publicize blender, we do it ourselves out of love for blender. We certainly don’t need our animations to be crippled by suzanne’s head.

If any of your ideas made it into blender upstream (which they won’t, the blender devs love blender too much to kill it) then I would upload a build to graphicall called ‘blender less-annoying edition’. Such a build would become more popular than one with those monstrous additions.

A scrolling advert ticker? Are you serious or just a very efficient troll?

The moment the Blender foundation made a short film that looked commercial class (Elephant’s Dream really had a far more “arthouse” feel), it was clear that everyone and their dog was gonna be all over that thing for demos of video playback, encoding, decoding, acceleration, manipulation etc. technology. If it’s freely available for those purposes, nobody in their right mind is gonna bother licensing some clip from Hollywood when they can just download, convert, and display BBB.

I mean, that’s the nature of the beast. Lord knows if someone codes up an OpenCL renderer for Blender, Ati and Nvidia will be tripping over themselves to see who can render BBB faster ;)