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Re: blender



Anarky wrote:
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like to ask you how do you feel Blender compares to those comercial software in terms of:
-productivity
-features
Really, Ingo Ruhnke gave you a very correct reply.

I'll just add a couple of things.
The booleans do miss if you're planning on doing simple objects pretty quickly. For complex ones (like organics) you just don't need them because they are useless then (well i mean a human body that looks more to a human than to a stack of boxes). Even for symmetric objects like a glass of water you don't need them as you just have to do the same as in AMAPI(just another 3D modeler): duplication/translation/scale and so on and this can even be done automaticaly with a path.
If you plan on using that soft seriously, the 1.5 manual (paper) is a must have (maybe you can download it now, search their site, also search for a newer version of course) as it lists all the keybindings and will explain (just like any manual i guess :) ) you the most interesting thing in Blender: it's object oriented way of think: a curve (the object) can also become a path in a motion, a duplication path or a surface creator path (even in several dimensions)... and so on... Blender can be pretty powerful indeed as long as you learn its way, all in all it's just another way to work, AMAPI was also another one btw (you can download it from a few places on the Net it works under Linux, just that the port is unfinnished and have some bugs left) with another different way of getting things done... and we can go that way up to the famous pov. Differents... Ok, ok if you manage to render with pov the main ship of Babylon V or the metal-liquid guy of Terminator... :)

Really, it's a free software and you're free to use it so download it, test it, make your own mind. But even if it fits you, you should test the others softs around, as i said to make your own mind: remember that it's _you_ who will use the soft at the end. :)

Have fun learning,
Fred.
P.S.: When you want to discuss more in depth about a specific software it's usually better to go to the specific discussion place for that soft being an irc or anything else. I just remind it to you.