Congratulation! But to be serious: Almost all tools allow this. I can change every hotkey, menus and palettes in Lightwave. BUT: I will never do this. I rather learn the existing ones. The reason is easy. I often follow existing tutorials and it would be a nightmare if they talk to press Shift+F and I have to check what that means for my own custom set of hotkeys.

But I work parallel in tools like ZBrush, Lightwave, Bodypaint, Milkshape and Fragmotion. They all have different hotkeys. The same counts for MS Word vs. OpenOffice. But most users can deal with this. It is just a little training.

I have to learn so much Karate techniques, Katas and Japanese words for my other hobby. This fits in my good old brain. So I am sure a few hotkeys will also fit into your younger one

Even more important that the standard UI is as user friendly as possible



But you can be sure that the menu item Save saves your stuff in all cases. See the point?

Yes, i know, the professional way is a bit different. You have to care of the most effective workflow. Time is money. But fastest is not equal best. What's wrong to provide both, hotkeys for the advanced useage, and a good organized button UI for the easy entry? Nearly all software does it.

To say it again, i have absolutely nothing against hotkeys. But in Blender it is a bit too much for my flavour

Always this issue as fast as Blender is mentioned..

If the GUI with buttons and menus with text and icons and click select is the ultimate effective way why have not the grand piano, silver flute or electric guitar manufacturers adopted this god sent gift?

With any instrument you have to spend time and train, if not willing you have to choose a simpler tool.

I'm totally lame on using all key features in Blender, but saying that application is bad is like saying the grand piano, silver flute or electric guitar is a totally mess and completely wrong constructed.

Got the point? If your not willing to spend the hard time to be an artist on the particular instrument, just move on and grab the tool that fit your person.
I have a hard time to grasp all of the key combinations of Blender but I would have had that on the grand piano, silver flute or electric guitar also, so ...

I'll stop here and if anyone think two or three steps further they move on, otherwise I gotcha!


Now on the purpose of the thread, anything useful for Gamestudio users that wasn't before 2.48?

http://www.yofrankie.org/

yay!

bugger that's a slow download.

julz

Because they are not software?

A UI should have both. Hotkeys AND a good button UI. That easy

I, and many others, am not made to just work with hotkeys. In other software that is no problem. Because they have a good working button UI.

Imagine when you would tell all software makers that they would just be allowed to use hotkeys in the future. I guarantee that they loose most of their users.

A sucking UI that is told to be cool has nothing to do with being an artist. When i break my fingers because the software makers have forgotten to implement a human UI then i keep my hands away. I don't use Blender for exact that reason. There is other software around. Which gives me not this massive battle with its UI.

To stay with your analogy, Blender is a flute with strange holes. It is a piano with secret buttons to bring up the keys. This instrument is odd.

You are exaggerating a lot. There are buttons, tabbed pages, menus and more in Blender.

Yup there are buttons, tabbed pages, menus and more in Blender. But not in a useful manner so that a normal guy can work in a comfortable way with it. I cannot.

I simply have another opinion.

Maybe you are normal and other ones are not. Maybe this tool is not for "normal" casual average people. Maybe you have to be a skilled artist to use it.

It is a tool and it does its job.

http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-taskforce25/
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/Blender2.5

by the way, the 2.5 development is interesting to follow if you are interested in such things.

http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=139677&page=13

there are also some nice other projects going on like projection painting. you can already downloads builds from graphicall.org.