I think the "convention" would be in toggling around and moving objects. If you hold alt + left, right, or middle mouse button, it allows you to move, rotate, or zoom your view. It is that way in maya and cinema 4d. In Blender and ZBrush it is totally different. I do like ZBrush now that I got used to it, but I am not happy with blender.
In my personal experience, everything about the KDE environment was great. I ran SUSE 10 64-bit. I attempted to acquire open source versions of 3d software - Blender -. Put that up against Maya or 3DS and it pales in comparison. I have no perspective view, so I can't toggle around the object and the interface is so far from what I am used to. Gimp isn't bad but I still prefer CS2. There is the interaction between the suite. The bridge and all that. The actions. I think its hard to match what a team of pro's can come up with, when they get paid to do this all day long. If I could find a way to get Maya, Adobe Video bundle, Flash, Dreamweaver,& Cubase ported to linux I would use it hands down. I love everything about it, except the lack of professional software I need.
It seems like someone should have come up with this a long time ago. This is not to demean the poster for exposing a great truth, but to emphasize that time is the attempt to measure change. It's a way for us to abstract change. It doesn't exist. Change exists. Measuring the change of all things at once is silly.
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I think the "convention" would be in toggling around and moving objects. If you hold alt + left, right, or middle mouse button, it allows you to move, rotate, or zoom your view. It is that way in maya and cinema 4d. In Blender and ZBrush it is totally different. I do like ZBrush now that I got used to it, but I am not happy with blender.
In my personal experience, everything about the KDE environment was great. I ran SUSE 10 64-bit. I attempted to acquire open source versions of 3d software - Blender -. Put that up against Maya or 3DS and it pales in comparison. I have no perspective view, so I can't toggle around the object and the interface is so far from what I am used to. Gimp isn't bad but I still prefer CS2. There is the interaction between the suite. The bridge and all that. The actions. I think its hard to match what a team of pro's can come up with, when they get paid to do this all day long. If I could find a way to get Maya, Adobe Video bundle, Flash, Dreamweaver,& Cubase ported to linux I would use it hands down. I love everything about it, except the lack of professional software I need.
It seems like someone should have come up with this a long time ago. This is not to demean the poster for exposing a great truth, but to emphasize that time is the attempt to measure change. It's a way for us to abstract change. It doesn't exist. Change exists. Measuring the change of all things at once is silly.