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MakePillow addon
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Bonnie2001
Extraordinary
It looks very basic and not something most people would need. I mean, A pillow is one of the easiest things to model.
lol...getting a primitive in the workspace in Blender isn't easy, took me forever to work it out. Most programs it's fairly easy but not Blender, maybe that's just me though.
Only time I've ever gotten anything done in Blender is following a tutorial step by step.
Only time I've ever gotten anything done in Blender is following a tutorial step by step.
Lobo3433
Admirable
Blender does have its learning curve and I will say I have been learning Blender for sometime now and only recently have dared to show any of my work but do not let it discourage you Pendraia it is really worth it once you do get the hang of it and with the up coming new release of 2.79 which will include a PBR shading integrating Blender with other applications like Substance Painter, 3D coat will make even more useful in any content creation work flow
Bonnie2001
Extraordinary
That will be really cool! I'm learning Blender this summer and find it a slow process. I got the Bforartists interface so it's a bit easier to use than straight out of the box.
Lobo3433
Admirable
Hi Bonnie CG Masters released a tutorial about a week ago and part of the focus was customizing Blender and tweaking some settings to make it your own. One of the tweaks that I found most valuable was changing font size to make things stand out more for me that hint alone was well worth watching the whole tutorial maybe it can give you some ideas in setting it up so it is more user friendly and such
Bonnie2001
Extraordinary
Thanks Lobo!
AlphinaNovaStar
Energetic
I need to get blender to work on my old netbook. What can I do with pillow after I make it in blender?
Talking about pillows I need to have some quality time with mine asap.
Talking about pillows I need to have some quality time with mine asap.
DaremoK3
Enthusiast
Bonnie2001:
I think you missed the point...
Yes, it is easy to model a pillow, but someone coded an auto-pillow dynamic cloth simulation for your usage. It can be used as a starting point for much more.
I wanted more functionality out of it, and I don't care for using the spacebar usage, so I turned it into a Tools Tab Addon. I am going to add some more to it later, but for now it's a start. This really could be fleshed out to something very useful.
And, how are you liking Bforartists?
I think he is doing a good job with it so far, but I don't care for the keymap changes, and changing modules that are breaking Addons.
I think you missed the point...
Yes, it is easy to model a pillow, but someone coded an auto-pillow dynamic cloth simulation for your usage. It can be used as a starting point for much more.
I wanted more functionality out of it, and I don't care for using the spacebar usage, so I turned it into a Tools Tab Addon. I am going to add some more to it later, but for now it's a start. This really could be fleshed out to something very useful.
And, how are you liking Bforartists?
I think he is doing a good job with it so far, but I don't care for the keymap changes, and changing modules that are breaking Addons.
DaremoK3
Enthusiast
Miss B:
Are you asking about Bforartists keymapping?
If so, I find it will be necessary to undo the hard-coding of the keymapping that the author believes should be the defaults for Blender.
Blender is already very flexible, and as you have encountered, you can set up the keymapping to your liking. But, when fork authors are changing the hard-code mapping, it becomes a little more difficult for the end user to make simple changes.
Luckily for me, my one-click 3D navigation addon is a modal operation call that doesn't blink at the mouse view3d changes (rotate, pan, zoom). However, my modified Make Pillow addon above won't work without diving into the module changes he has made, and make corrections for the function calls.
Are you asking about Bforartists keymapping?
If so, I find it will be necessary to undo the hard-coding of the keymapping that the author believes should be the defaults for Blender.
Blender is already very flexible, and as you have encountered, you can set up the keymapping to your liking. But, when fork authors are changing the hard-code mapping, it becomes a little more difficult for the end user to make simple changes.
Luckily for me, my one-click 3D navigation addon is a modal operation call that doesn't blink at the mouse view3d changes (rotate, pan, zoom). However, my modified Make Pillow addon above won't work without diving into the module changes he has made, and make corrections for the function calls.
Lobo3433
Admirable
Just looked at Bforartists first I have heard of it but reminds me of the Blender Sensei restructure of Blender to make it easier to learn which in the long run at least in my opinion didn't help and also it did not play nice with other add ons. Sometimes simple mods to the Blender UI themes and such especially color and such can make a big difference in learning Blender I know one thing and mainly because hell getting old and eyes aren't what they use to be a lighter theme and fixing the size of fonts for the UI has made a big difference it making Blender more pleasant to work with and hiding things I do not use like animation timeline.