I wish you could change hotkeys right from the lookup window (which, thank God, is finally off the space bar and over on f3 where it belongs).ĪMD has officially released Radeon ProRender for Blender 2.0, the latest update to the Blender edition of its free physically accurate GPU renderer, at Siggraph 2019. That said I've lost the subdivide hotkey which I used all the time and I haven't dug through the options to add it back. And whilst I'm on random changes that I like: I also like the change for select all and deselect all from just being A to being split up into A and alt-A, even though at the beginning I wasn't too sure about it. I don't remember if it was in the previous version or I just didn't know them then. One in particular that comes up all the time but I can't recall ATM.įor me I like the hotkeys of 1,2,3 for vertex, edge, face select. Like going from wire frame, to face, to rendered (which used to be done by cycling through on a hotkey), but there are a few that I've encounter like that. The one that comes to mind is switching between display rendering. I miss the pop up menu for vertex/edge/face selection, it is not available in 2.8.

Which pie menus slow thing down? The tap pie menu in 2.8 is annoying imo, but it can be turned off. “As a result, we expect more contributors from the industry to join our projects.” Roughly a further €40,000/month (around $50,000/month) is donated through Blender Cloud, but the money is primarily used to fund Blender Institute‘s open-source animation projects.īlender Foundation chairman Ton Roosendaal said that the grant money will form “a significant investment in our project organization to improve on-boarding, coordination and best practices for code quality”.

This isn’t the first time that Epic has funded Blender development, but it is by far its biggest donation.īefore the grant was announced, the crowdsourced Blender Development Fund stood at €37,538/month (just over $42,000/month), meaning the award almost doubles development Blender funding at a stroke. New grant nearly doubles development funding for Blender The money, which has been awarded from Epic’s new Epic MegaGrants program, will be used to fund Blender’s Professionalizing Blender Development Initiative. (CG+Channel+-+Entertainment+Production+Art)Įpic Games has awarded the Blender Foundation, the nonprofit organisation that oversees Blender’s development, a $1.2 million cash grant, to be delivered over the next three years. Just recently I picked up the 2.8 beta and I had a much better time understanding the UI and controls. I have opened Blender many years ago to start learning 3D from, but never bothered.

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