Forum: Blender

Subject: What would happen to Poser and DS, if Blender came with 4GB of content?

vilters opened this issue on Jun 15, 2015 · 30 posts

maxxxmodelz posted Tue, 23 June 2015 at 11:13 PM

Methinks someone needs to create a Sticky that lists where people can find Blender add-ons. :)

This is the ultimate resource for Blender addons, so might wanna bookmark it. http://blenderaddonlist.blogspot.com/

The addons I suggest for reducing the complexity of having to memorize hotkeys are already included with all Blender downloads, in the Blender User Preferences / Add-ons tab.  I highly recommend to enable the following addons to anyone who hates memorizing the blender hotkeys and UI layout:

  1. 3D View: Dynamic Spacebar Menu (This will create a handy little menu containing all kinds of readily useful features in Blender, just by tapping on the spacebar of your keyboard.  Then you can select any number of tasks or features without having to navigate through tons of UI clutter)
  2. Development: Icons (this will create nifty little visual icons in your popup menus that aren't there by default, and serve as a way to quickly reference what you need through graphical representations of the features, instead of just text).
  3. User Interface: Pie Menus Official (This will create pie menus when you click on standard hotkeys, like TAB, and the Z button, allowing you to choose from a heads-up display of different navigational arrays and features that otherwise would require memorization of yet more hotkeys to call upon).  Keep in mind, this does indeed replace the ability to jump directly into edit mode when you press the TAB.  Instead, you'll get a heads-up button selection menu of about 7 different "modes" to choose from in blender, like "Edit", "Sculpt", "Vertex Paint", and "weight paint".  You simply click the mode you wanna go to from there.  The convenience of this is that you only need one "hotkey" to jump to any of 7 different modes, instead of memorizing 7 different hotkeys for them.  Also, the Z key will open up pie menus for all your different display modes, like "Solid", "wireframe", "rendered", "flat shade", "smooth shade", and others.  This allows just one key to become the jump point for what otherwise would be 7 or 8 other hotkeys you'd need to remember.  You can get more info on Pie Menus, and how they work here: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.72/UI/Pie_Menus

They saved me so much headaches.

Tools :  3dsmax 2015, Daz Studio 4.6, PoserPro 2012, Blender v2.74

System: Pentium QuadCore i7, under Win 8, GeForce GTX 780 / 2GB GPU.