I’ve seen the first two myself over the past year. The third is not very surprising.

Screencap showing menu bar. Top bar: All Tools | Edit | Convert | E-Sign Second row: "This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary."

Just upgraded to a new version of Acrobat, and... look.

I am reading a friend's NOVEL. Something I WANT to read. For ENJOYMENT.

Fuck off into the sun and take your designer with you.

Hey, thanks for reading all that! I mean remove all concept of having to swap mode context for actions. (I don't mean only edit mode but all others also) To me these separations of levels of interactions can easily be replaced by more specific tools, instead of having to switch modes before.

(youtube link above already sends to the right moment of the video)

"One study found that professionals using Microsoft Word overwhelmingly preferred to use app iconography rather than shortcuts, even though learning shortcuts would help them work more efficiently."

"The majority of users tend to stick to between 1-10 shortcuts, which includes standard shortcuts for saving, copying and pasting, etc. And this isn’t just my opinion. It’s borne out in research too, some of which I’ve linked to in the description."

YouTube video by Tantacrul Finale - How Music Software Dies

Lost in this otherwise great video about how a software dies, there is this bit about shortcuts, and how people don't use them. I feel like #blender3d needs to hear this

youtu.be/Yqaon6YHzaU?...

I... think I did it? Live fracture in Geometry Nodes. All existing solutions I could find were permanent one-way operations or slow/lossy voxel-based approaches. I won't share this because it's very specific to my needs, but I'll give a simple breakdown in the thread below. 👇🧵
#b3d

This kraken rig nearly ruined me... but it was worth it!

#GameDev #3DCG #B3D #Blender #GameArt #Blender3D #Octopus #Rig

He said will you delete it, its faces and all of its vertices, the shape that they have made

Quad modelling is ONLY needed for clean even subdivision and for fast ring/loop selections. Beyond that it doesn't do anything at all, and when exported than imported into games is triangulated.

Triangles are a useful part of efficient game modelling.
Quads are just a tool to get there.

Now seems like a good time to remind everyone of this excellent moderation list you can subscribe to if you don't want to have to see any AI images in your feed.
You're going to need it
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Squash & Stretch Rig Blender Add-on - Kai 's Ko-fi Shop This Blender add-on creates automatically a squash & stretch lattice rig for your mesh objects.

Select some objects, press shift + A and then add squash and stretch rig
ko-fi.com/s/fb558aa17b

Still on my mind. What concerns me about this shift more than anything is while it can be marketed as a means of creators bucking the system, this additional financial burden can only be taken on by a fraction of artists, thus gentrifying the medium even further.

Do I need to add that there is nowhere I can see in the UI to edit that field?

Also, with all the inheritance and Oop patterns that blender uses, why aren't different types of brushes different subtypes to avoid all this unnecessary data in the brush model?

Wow greasepencil v3 brushes are... interesting.
Now there is only the "brush" tool, which uses brushes which contain the fields : gpencil_tool (!) but also gpencil_vertex_tool, gpencil_sculpt_tool, gpencil_weight_tool ? (and that's only the gp stuff! sculpt etc is also in there)

Nice one #blender3d

Please give credit to mrlovenstein.bsky.social

Here’s my last start-to-finish painting courses featured in The Landscape Painting Studio. I’ll show how to paint these along with me through detailed step-by-step videos.

JimMusil.com/learn

Doors open for a limited time.

Hope you like it, big fan by the way. I have a blender starter pack and you're in it, hope that's ok!

#geometrynodes tool made for the pwnishers new challenge. Plane is going to be far away so its good enough for now. #b3d

🦖🌋🦕 Dino world sketches.

#illustration #draw #sketch #design #Procreate #lineart #art #dinosaur

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Throw back to over 2 years ago?!

At that time I was developing a real-time paint stroke post-processing package for Unity. I moved on because some of the tech + learning in that unlocked an even cooler rendering pipeline that I'm using in our current game.

#gamedev #unity #realtimevfx #techart

UI is a very overlooked part of DCC software and probably way more make or break than it's given credit for. So many people are held back just because of UI confusion. It can even break an entire workflow if there's no tech artist to help cut down the bloated interaction cost for the team.

AAA games industry: live service, multiplayer, season passes, gazillion dollar budgets, laying off half their staff even if the products are successful

Meanwhile at Okomotive: Here’s a linear adventure game about going up a mountain with a bunch of weird yaks RT if u agree🥰

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My top priorities would be removing the need for edit modes, adding context based panels with buttons for single actions, and offering a way to use parts of the default keymap in custom operators. Letting add-ons use the way users have already set up their shortcuts. No more hardcoded key checks

I also know that both tools and layouts have been attempt to address this. I still think there is a lot to improve, even while keeping the spreadsheet approach. The discovery problem and the reliance on unchangeable shortcuts (in practice) are doing blender a disservice.

Maybe there isn't a way around delegating workflow decisions to add-ons? I understand that implementing native versions of the ideas from add-ons could be seen as ungrateful. I guess those are the issues of open source and being driven by a community instead of a single vision maybe.