Jacki Silverfall Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 Now that mesh has been released I'm assuming there are many that are starting to use Blender to explore and learn modeling. Since it's a free program makes it very popular.There are many here experienced in using Blender that could help out with tech problems or even just critiquing work.What do you think? Should Blender along with other 3D programs have its own place in the forums? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aiden Rives Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 No, I don't think that's necessary. If there's a Blender forum then there will probably be a Maya and 3ds max forum too which will kind of group mesh modellers into categories. That will be like making a Photoshop forum and a Gimp forum for texturing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sahra Beresford Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 Good idea Jackie. I have downloaded Blender but really don't have much idea how to use it, but would certainly like some tuition here. There are so many clever people who do contribute great knowledge on this forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randall Ahren Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 Just put the blender questions in the building and texturing forum. There is not a lot of activity there anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrong Wright Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 I would say look on the internet for the blender communties to fulfill questions and critiques. I would say 80% of the questions in the future are going to be strictly Blender user questions. The communty sites also have sections of critque, and since 3D models can be saved of as a .jpg you have better chance of getting critque and feedback. If you did the same here, then you'd only get half the crowd to resond as some are Maya or other 3D program users and they'd not be able to tell you how to achieve better results because they don't know Blender. If people want to show off things they built, I think a specific 3D "Show Me" forum would be fun to look at. I just don't think it should be program specific. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alisha Matova Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 You know what would be awesome? A machinamatrix forum! Hint hint! * cough*. @Gaia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexandra Barcelos Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 That's a very good idea , would be less confusing ... but i do suggest to make a mesh categorie and then make sub categories with the programs names . Not only blender Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamela Galli Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 There is a great inworld Blender and Primstar/JASS group; someone is usually around to answer questions plus there are regularly scheduled classes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaia Clary Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 We have started to support blender directly. So you can expect to see some enhancements in the blender documentation wiki in the future. And i have agreed to participate in the german localization of blender ( internationalisation comes somewhere in release 2.6 as far as i understood ) I will start in a few days as soon as the related software branch is fully working. So i guess it is much more clever to first see what blender.org has to offer. The blenderartist forum is a great repository for knowledge and discussions. SL forums should realy be reserved for SL related issues, like "why does my mesh upload fail", and "why do my models crash my SIM" and "Why are my sculptmaps borked after upload". Well the last type of questions should be answered by a robot meanwhile ... Machinimatrix-forum ? Realy ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Void Singer Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 you mean like that whole mesh forum that's already in place (or the constant overflow in building, which has incidently drowned out all texturing discussion? (which used to be the third most active Creation forum) PS @ Alisha: There is a Machinima forum, or did I misunderstand? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peewee Musytari Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 I think the mesh forum being separate was just because it wasn`t an active feature & being new there was obviously lots of questions about it, but at some point wouldn`t it naturally just become part of the building & texturing forum? Afterall we don`t have a separate sculpty forum. Making blender some sort of sub forum to mesh would just confuse things even more, as blender is not specifically a mesh tool, so if your question was about sculpties in blender or texturing, should it be in building/texturing instead? If texturing is lumped in with building (which I don`t particualrly agree with) then logically all other building/ texturing topics, such as sculpties, mesh, blender, maya, gimp, PS, PSP etc etc should all be in the building/texturing forum too or it is just too confusing for people looking where to post & also people looking for previous related topics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Void Singer Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 somehow I doubt mesh would (or reasonably could) be merged merged with building right now. It's currently more active than even scripting, which has historically been the most active creation forum of them all (probably because it touches everything, and does more on top) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacki Silverfall Posted September 1, 2011 Author Share Posted September 1, 2011 Actually I included the other programs as well. "Should Blender along with other 3D programs have its own place in the forums?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacki Silverfall Posted September 1, 2011 Author Share Posted September 1, 2011 I disagree, Sorry. It''s mesh and I think it should be in a mesh forum. BUilding is more about prims to me. Ya know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacki Silverfall Posted September 1, 2011 Author Share Posted September 1, 2011 I have tried the other forums and frankly I'm getting more help here and faster than any other place I've posted on. Including the official BA site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacki Silverfall Posted September 1, 2011 Author Share Posted September 1, 2011 Very true! Looking forward to that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacki Silverfall Posted September 1, 2011 Author Share Posted September 1, 2011 I was thinking that all 3D programs would be welcome in the same forum/ sub forum. We could call it Mesh software help. or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacki Silverfall Posted September 1, 2011 Author Share Posted September 1, 2011 I am a member of the inworld group and I can't always get answers or get online to use it. Which would make it being here easier for those in the wee hours or who can't log on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacki Silverfall Posted September 1, 2011 Author Share Posted September 1, 2011 /me laughs I thought of that before I posted it but thought what the hell. I knew someone would catch it and it seems quite appropriate that it was you! Hugs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peewee Musytari Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 Void Singer wrote: somehow I doubt mesh would (or reasonably could) be merged merged with building right now. It's currently more active than even scripting, which has historically been the most active creation forum of them all (probably because it touches everything, and does more on top) I did say eventually, not right now, its still far too new atm and will continue to be a busy forum for a good while yet, but at some point it will become as commonplace as sculpties & will probably end up in with the rest, so the suggestion of adding subforums to mesh didn`t seem like a good idea. EDIT: I actually didn`t say eventually, I said at some point lol...meh ya know what I mean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishtara Rothschild Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 Jacki Silverfall wrote: What do you think? Should Blender along with other 3D programs have its own place in the forums? We also don't have Photoshop and GIMP forums. Or a forum for Poser, QAvimator, DAZ Animator... I mean, where would that end? We have web content on prims now, so we'd also need to cover all popular HTML editors out there. People download their transaction history and view it in Excel, which means we need a forum for MS Office as well. It would soon get out of hand, and I don't think that LL should be promoting third party software. They already do that way too often (Facebook, Twitter...). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aiden Rives Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 You don't get what I mean. There is no need to sudivide the forum into seperate 3D program sub forums. That will just cause the modellers to be grouped into the subforum depending on which program they use. Imagine if there are subforums and someone posted an awesome tutorial in the maya subforum, then a blender user goes in and ask "hey guys, is there a way I can do this on blender?". It's just not necessary to seperate and group based on 3D programs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacki Silverfall Posted September 2, 2011 Author Share Posted September 2, 2011 I realized that and at the end I included all the 3d programs would be in one subforum. Not a sub forum for each program. Anyway, it was just a thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacki Silverfall Posted September 2, 2011 Author Share Posted September 2, 2011 :smileyvery-happy: I suppose one could just keep going on and on with your thoughts. As well can be said of any of the current topics on the forums. Hell, lets make one sub forum for office regarding type face and fonts. ETA LL also uses Blender and other 3d software. We promote enough 3rd party viewers here so why not? These are what makes mesh there is no other way to get around it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peewee Musytari Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 At the CTUG meeting tonight Jeremy did say he is still working on the Mesh pages in the wiki & from the stuff he has done so far it looks like that will be a great resource for meshers. Its still a work in progress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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