Blender Developers meeting notes, December 4, 2016
Here are the notes from today’smeeting in irc.freenode.net #blendercoders.
Ton Roosendaal writes:
Hi,
Here are notes from today’s 15 UTC meeting in irc.freenode.net #blendercoders.
1) Blender 2.8 project
- Summary of Workflow Workshophttps://code.blender.org/ highlights has been posted. Rest of docs are still in progress.
- Bastien Montagne works on UI layout engine, for better handling of columns.
- Julian Eisel tested layout previews:
- OpenGL upgrade is continuing happily, nothing to report.
2) Other projects
- Luca Rood accepted a 3 month Blender Development Fund grant to work on cloth.
- We still really need more bug fixers and triagers!
That’s it for this week,
-Ton-
ok
glad to hear progress.
I am still waiting for the day when you can work with Blender wtihout remember any shortcut key.
why?
when I’m learning new program I first use just menus and buttons, but then start to learn hotkeys so I don’t have to rely on those anymore.. it adds speed.. (I have two hands…)
.b
hotkeys deffinetly adds speed
hotkeys definitely adds speed
By the day you will know them by heart.
use ms word ;)
I think that day has already come! You don’t need to remember any shortcut, at all, for many reasons: each editor has it own menu system, plus you can use Pie menus (configurable) bundled addons, and there is also the space bar command search tool (improved in 2.78), that gives you every command in a list by keyword… and in the end you can change every shortcut, if you wish, to something easier to remember (provided that shortcut is not already used in the same contect), and save your own “shortcut schema”… I don’t know any other program nearly that flexible…
Of course most Blender users will argue that using shortcuts (and thus commands execution speed and semantic) can only boost your Blender usage efficiency, and I agree, but really you don’t need to know them, if you wish so.
Work enough with any application and you’ll be using hotkey just so you don’t drive yourself nuts. Have you seen the pie menus? I’m pretty used to Blender the way it is so I don’t really use them a bunch, but I hear they rock…