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.)