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10 Jan 2007so over at CGTalk, in a thread in the Max forum, someone mentioned using Blender to do a water simulation, because now a bridge exists between Max and Blender.
This got me kinda intrigued, so I started reading up on Blender a bit, including checking out the new Fluid Training DVD
http://www.cmivfx.com/product_blender_fluids.asp
And at the Blender website, if you look in the features list, it's pretty shocking. It does EVERYTHING. It's on every operating system (some i've never heard of - Free BSD 5.4???). You can sculpt in it like Mudbox & ZBrush. it has physics, cloth, hair, everything the big ones have. and you can see Colin's character rig in the challenge section - it's pretty dang amazing!
I'm really kinda wanting to check it out. if only as a fluid simulator! i'm mean, we've all known about Blender for a long time, but I don't think i've ever actually read through every feature. it's unbelievably impressive.
i wonder why more people aren't using it? or more studios? perhaps it's the fact that it's free, and if it's free, it can't possibly have all the features of a multi-thousand dollar program. yet it seems to.
what do you guys think? why aren't more people using it? why aren't YOU using it? what do you think of it?
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10 Jan 2007Yeah -, i have no idea why I haven't picked it up, I first started off on Houdini (!) - I've always heard about Blender, but never got interested in it, possibly because there's no studios out there using it (that I know of), so to me, and wanting a job in the industry, I thought it would be a silly idea to learn a piece of software that was pretty much non-existence with the industry - that's why I moved away from Houdini and bought Maya.
Blender is defiantly going up in the world me thinks, that new film - 'Elephant's Dream - shows how awsome the software can be - the film being made entirely within Blender (so I believe).
And also, tutorials on Blender are being featured in 3D World Mag a lot more frequent these days, I think i might check it out one of these days when im bored in work. -
10 Jan 2007it seems to be less user friendly than max off the bat, and it is a bit more "techy" I have had it included with a few distributions of linux that I've tried out in the past year. It seems to be gaining popularity, but who knows, there are a lot of good programs out there that should be getting better press than they are.
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10 Jan 2007It is VERY Techy, the thought of Colin learning in that program just boggles the mind, my friend used that program, and was a genious, but the keys and everything is just not very efficient. But the program itself is very powerful, a better UI and controls could help it in the market.
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bzudo 151 posts10 Jan 2007i would agree with mike. blenders learning curve is a cliff. i have used it for two years now, off and on and i'm just now starting to make headway.
part of the reason is because buttons and functions aren't clearly labeled. documentation is all done via wiki. not that that's bad, but i found it hard to get information on certain subjects.
the fluid simulator is pretty amazing and easy to setup.
it's also comes with a nodal compositor. -
10 Jan 2007If you're interested in the Water side of Blender Sean, check this DVD out;
http://www.cmivfx.com/product_blender_fluids.asp
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