NNois wrote: 22 Mar 2018, 22:31
Sorry to hijack here guys but how do you get into blender with the 3d cursor thing ? how do you move the cursor to something not selected ??? just like on soft where you move the temporal pivot when modeling
I'm just not 'getting' the cursor thing, have no any cursor related shortcut, only way here to move cursor are sliders in 3d view properties menu. For modeling, rarely used pivots/transform orientation axis ''from nowhere'' in SI too, usually it's some component for both. After all, Blender cursor is just point in 3d space, it can not describe the orientation axis. AFAIK they did not assigned any new functionality to cursor in last ten years or more, while they provided its functionalities to other tools, perhaps cursor will disappear one day, against protests of all hundred user who just can't live without.
Not an admirer of Blender's ''after'' adjusting of proportional mode radius, have tendency to use sculpting tools instead.
When it comes to SRT, almost never used any kind of custom pivot for anything - perhaps a good habit from SI, allowed me to switch easier to Maya or Blender.
Always appreciate universal, as much simple and 'stupid' option, also I'd believe that 'simple or nothing' is formula of success. Great example of positive and negative IMO is Maya, where animation as successful part relies on almost same set of tools for decades, plain RMB context menu without shift or ctrl for options, no any radial menu crap, only one auto key option (OK it's not just that simple, however simplicity is first) - contrary to everything else in Maya, which is bloated by over-complicated overlapping options, exclusions, zig-zig moving to get something out of radial menu.... and appropriate ''reputation''
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. However, let's start from official Blueprint Best Practices page , where main purpose is clearly mentioned: ''Blueprints are best suited to making event-driven functionality, such as handling damage taking, controls, and other things that don't get called every frame", that is, not nearly for all purposes well known in systems like ICE or Houdini, while of course, it could be miss used to some level. In other word, I really don't see why someone will prefer Unreal Blueprint for anything outside gamedev or, maybe..... some long archiviz presentation, or 'I just want to use it'' category. About artist friendly, Blueprint just can't be easier than Houdini for example, simply because of entire gamedev environment where it lives. Unreal is not DCC app and it will not be, ever.
