Blender 2.46 Released

The Penguin Man writes to mention the latest release of Blender, the popular open-source 3D graphics suite was officially launched today. You can download it from Blender.org. The culmination of half a year's work has resulted in many new features including a new particle system, approximate AO, the new cloth simulation system, and much more!

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[Sir_Lewk]

It's posts like these that make me wish we had -1 troll. Oh wait...

Great yet another UI war.

[Mystery00]

Fine, I'm just going to go ahead and say this:

If you are disoriented by Blender's interface, that's fine, personal preferences and such usually get in the way of learning when you've worked with another application for a long time.

On the other hand if you hate Blender's interface and find it horrible or other such strong words then you are not a professional, you're not even intermediate. I doubt you could model a cube in any 3D application let alone Blender.

The reason you hate Blender's interface isn't because it's difficult to use, it's because you don't know how to use it, you opened it up for the first time because it's open-source and free and you were just overwhelmed by the complexity of a real professional software package and gave up after you realised this would actually take effort.

Then you went onto slashdot and complained like you actually know something.

Blender is not for you. It takes time and effort to learn and understand. It takes practice to acquire skills at modelling and animating (this goes for any 3D application). Something you obviously aren't prepared for.

I suggest that you stick to making squares in Paint because Blender and any other 3D package is way beyond you, but if you don't want to look like an idiot don't go on here, or anywhere else, and say Blender has a horrible interface or the like because anyone who has taken that seriously step into the 3D world will laugh in your face.

Mystery