you can copy and paste addresses in the directory trees to change folders. Im not sure if its always been like that, maybe back when you tried it might have been different but it works for me.

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@ventilator

do you know when a public download will be available?

OK thanks. I will check that out with the new release.

(I did not mean copy and paste within Blender, I mean between Blender and Windows explorer)

yeah, you can copy an address from windows explorer (lets say the address bar) and paste it into the directory field in blender. im not sure you can do vice versa, but then again, i've never needed to for anything.

public download is currently available in thier download page.

ooh excited to see that you can now directly edit uv maps while still in edit mode. also the inclusion of tangent space normal mapping is nice.

Holy crap! Look awesome

well looks like they added uv map editting in the edit window, but fully took out the old uv editing thing which removes many feature i used to use.... it sux.

which features got removed? as far as i know (but the blender server seems to be down currently so i can't look it up) all uv editing features are still there but accessing them has changed a bit for some because of keyboard shortcut clashes with edit mode.

for instance, i could press ctrl e after selecting some faces, and instead of marking all edges , it would mark only the edges surrounding that patch.

conversely if i select a face, in face mode i could press ctrl l and select all faces within the marked seams.

I cant for the life of me find shortcut keys for those, or even a way to manually find a button for it.

how about ctrl-e "region to loop" and ctrl-e "loop to region"?

ctrl-l is "select all linked geometry" in blender. i think in the uv-editor it still can achieve what you want since seams will also be borders there.

but i am not sure if that's what you meant and it can't be looked up at the moment. you could also ask on http://blenderartists.org/forum/.