Re:Blender releases their Oscar winning version tool
by shadowgovt on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @09:23PM
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Thing is... UX is terrible everywhere in the 3D editing space. That's not even criticism of Blender as far as I can tell!
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Re:Blender releases their Oscar winning version tool
by ardupper on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @09:33PM
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Perhaps it’s high time to admit that nobody has a great solution for 3D editing quite yet :P
Re:Blender releases their Oscar winning version tool
by CyberDildonics on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @10:00PM
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This could not be further from the truth. Different programs have interfaces that are better for certain tasks, but Houdini, Maya and Softimage XSI have all had fantastic interfaces for the most part. Software like that should be used as the benchmark other UIs are compared to. I don't know anything other software that comes close.
Re:Blender releases their Oscar winning version tool
by nonchalantsui on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @10:50PM
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I wouldn’t go that far to say that they have fantastic interfaces. Tolerable? Better than what free options existed at the time? Either way, there is a lot of room for improvement but it’s also an extremely challenging environment to get interfaces right.
We are still in what is effectively the skeuomorphism for the music production industry phase (where everyone is just replicating real life tooling because that’s the expectation and with that comes a lot of unchecked baggage — except for Maya, Blender, etc it’s mostly about making assumptions based on past tooling and polishing that a tiny bit), eventually there will be a Logic to change those bad habits!
Re:Blender releases their Oscar winning version tool
by CyberDildonics on Thursday March 27, 2025 @01:22AM
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except for Maya, Blender, etc it’s mostly about making assumptions based on past tooling
I think you're mistaking the necessity of not straying too much from the actual math going on underneath with an attachment of old tools.
eventually there will be a Logic to change those bad habits!
Go ahead and give an example of 'a Logic' so you can show some evidence for this.
Re:Blender releases their Oscar winning version tool
by SunlitCat on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @11:34PM
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Nah. It's a problem many creative tools have (and an interesting one!). You can't squeeze one creative workflow (suitable for everyone) into a general UI.
Re:Blender releases their Oscar winning version tool
by CyberDildonics on Thursday March 27, 2025 @01:25AM
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Nah, what you are saying is vague and dismissive but doesn't hold up to the reality of fast flexible tools like these. Have you used maya, XSI, nuke and houdini?