ignition opened this issue on Apr 09, 2005 ยท 72 posts
ockham posted Sun, 10 April 2005 at 9:13 AM
Jury's still deliberating. The material room is very nice; finally led me to start using those awful nodes. The new arrangement of render/preview options makes more sense. Don't see why the camera selection was separated from camera control; that doesn't make any sense. Such separation was really needed for lights, not cameras; when you're using the Grouping tool or doing some other precise adjustment, you need to move lights around without losing your main choice. Python added lots of new functions that I don't need (materials, lights) but nothing new in the areas I care about (animation, vertex control.) Camera response time is okay, but parameter dials are entirely too slow and "slippery" compared to 4. (I tested both with identical PZ3s.) That's the deal-killer for me. Until that's improved, I'll stay with 4 for most things, maybe using 6 as renderer for pics that need to be pretty.