Blender 2.5 (alpha) -maybe released today

hi,

they said this on Blendernation.com

Blendernation.com

Sorry for my yelling, but I just cant wait for this......(singing christmas songs in meantime).


regards,
gi

it looks like they have made thier ui a bit easier to understand
great! cant wait for this myself

here is the (still unfinished) release page:
http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-250/

Ich lads ma runter...

@Ventilator
Wirst du deinen Exporter vllt auch auf diese Version umschreiben?
Dann brauch ich nicht immer zwischen den einzelnen Blender Versions zu switchen.

Gruß Sebastian

ja, wahrscheinlich schon, aber ich werde damit mindestens bis beta 3 warten.

Hast du schon rausgefunden wie man die einzelnen views wieder joinen kann?
Wie man nen extra view für beispielsweise den UV Editor bekommt weiss ich, aber wie bekomm ich den wieder weg?

Ah okay habs gefunden... Einfach in der Ecke wo man nen neuen View erstellt mit linker Maustaste gedrück halten und in den anderen View ziehen...
Wars nur mit Join Area via RMB gewohnt ^^

uh... why isn't the exporter compatible? the .blend format is always compatible, isn't it? but the plugin isn't?

python scripts will need adaptations for blender 2.5 because of python 3.1 and because of blender's completely new python API. ...but there also is a bright side... it will be possible to do a much nicer integration into the user interface.

ok, sounds good. I'd be real interested in such a new exporter. I've always used it together with blender for pretty much every model I made for 3dgs in the last 2 or 3 years.

Started trying blender 2.5, and I'm loving it already. the Interface is much, much better, though it'll take time getting used to, and I can't exactly say why I like it so much better. but it IS better. and it looks better as well.

Big Big tool and FREE

Animation once you've learned how works armature , weight paint and action editor is so easy and powerfull.

Yeah , the new interface will now bring lot more people on this fantastic FREE tool !

I tested it and it is progressing well , some points i've noted :
-Even with new icons and some new tool system , 3D mode, action mode etc ... are the same to choose
-Weight paint is not implemented
- Where is the display option for bones (X ray) didn't find anything
- WHRE IS THE 3D GIZMO ? i like it a lot and work with it exclusively (i hope they will do like Silo Gizmo : Universal manipulator ??)

Well , a pleasure for the eyes !
Great and great, waiting next release !

all of that is already there. i am sure you will find everything if you look more carefully.

Sorry , i've checked the manipulator under user preferences window, bu it doesn't appear ?
Or i'm blind ?

If the option is here , i've sused Blender from years and know some good parts of it, i can't imagine for a Blender beginner how difficult it will be to find simple things !
(Where is the lovely GIZMO ?)
OK fond it : you have to click on the axes icon !
Well it should be displayed by default !

the overhauled sculpting mode is awesome:

http://www.blendernation.com/blender-sculpt-demo-45-million-polygons/

http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-250/sculpt-and-multiresolution/



and a video of the better bullet integration:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ9dG9FeV4w

no need anymore for taking a detour to the game engine for physics baking...

wicked.
in the sculpting vid it seems as if the rake is a little slow sometimes... I dunno... seems to make working a little... less fun?
Also, rather than seeing only the new featurs I'd have liked to see how he actually made that great castle:)
Other than that: loving blender 2.5!

This new version of Blender realy good, design is eye candy (about hour can not tear myself away), file manager has become more convenient, customizable interface.

Me too

Did you see this graph? It is called the "Blender 2.5 Series Roadmap":



Does it mean it takes forever to finish 2.5? They are working since 2007 and there is just something around 10-20 percent finished. And why does the 2.5 roadmap end with a version 2.6 after all alpha and beta stages are done?

So they jump directly from 2.5 beta 4 to 2.6 (without having a stable 2.5 first)?

Although it might be all beta, they are working along with these betas producing an animation movie, so I'm not concerned about whether they call it beta, or whatever, it seems always to be a sort of version that one can use to work with.

But, I'm still exploring the tool, and I'm still far from using all features of version 2.49b.
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(Just bought this DVD: http://www.venomgfx.com.ar/lab/ delighted by the following video http://vimeo.com/5184346 - probably already posted somewhere in these forums. Pablo Vazquez seems to be an extremely nice guy and is a gifted artist.)

Yes! Release of version 2.5 alpha-1 is downloadable! gonna test it

so gonna test it

mikaldinho,
you have to be strong, now! Very strong! But, almost 15.000 members of these forums tried it, and it isn't impossible to reach that state of strength:

Stop posting as often as you breathe!
Most of your posts are absolutely useless. Stop posting around when you don't have anything worth to be posted. If you don't stop, an administrator eventually will find time to ban you.

ok then. why you so stressy with me?

Yes Pappenheimer Thanks!
So mikaldinho, now you know dont post on every single Topic an Replie which is nothing than more like an Comment.
Try to help the users but dont spam okay?

cYa Sebastian

ok. sorry

OK, i have tested blender 2.5 alpha-1 and all the bugs (bugs i know from alpha-0) are fixed . Now i'll continue my 3d-artwork

i like to do 3d artwork, but i dont understand how to make lowpoly things. i have noticed many peopple talk about lowpoly but i just dont get it. i know what it is, but i dont understand what is so good.

Less Polys = more FPS ?!

ok.

But it remains the top notch tool for low poly modeling and animation for me.
An it's free.



I've tested the sculpt mode :
good improvments , but
it 's very slow when you subdivide, or if you drag the brush over your model quickly : Blendre freezes caus it is calculating what vertex shoud be moved !
Far away from Zbrush speed and power caus it's not a tool
optimised specially for that only.
If you plan to do high level sculpting , it can't compare to 3D Coat or Zbrush and this is simply not the appropriate tool !
Juts my opinion.

it doesn't freeze for me and is very fluid for sculpting. the new poly counts i can reach are awesome and easily enough for me. no need for zbrush at all.

the new indirect lighting is nice too.

once bmesh will get merged in, blender will totally rock!

@frank: alpha and beta versions usually come towards the end of a project. the graph doesn't mean that only 20% of blender 2.5 are done.

Yes, the speed of the sculpting mode from version 2.49 to 2.5 alpha-1 is awesome!
Maibe not the speed of zbrush (I've never tested zbrush) but good enough to create great sculpted models.

Are there any presentation videos of those volumetric particles?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yZ8DAuu3Kg

haha, the new 3dsmax looks like an old blender version now.

haha, true.

the google summer of code projects this year:
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=185631

i am most looking forward to the bullet construction kit.

sintel trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOfdboHvshg

not bad. I realy like the animations. But i don't like the character-style. But the the dvd durian/sintel will be great, i am shure. To learn how to model, animate, render movies/szenes in a professional quality using blender 2.5... i will buy this dvd for shure!

Funny how I found out the other day that the Blender headquarters is one block down my street... I'm gonna say Hi to them sometime

Sorry for the off-topic, but:
Ahhhh. Lucky for you because you live in Europe anyway.

http://durian.blender.org/news/rende-previews/

Wow. It looks oh-so-cinematic. Bits and pieces look like they should be better (higher-resolution, more realistic lighting, or whatever) by today's standards, but considering they're not Dreamworks or Pixar, this looks just fantastic.

Jibb

seconed. Needs a little more polishing, but it's already amazing... go blender!