Hi everyone. I’m new to blender, and I was wondering how the documentation for v2.3 is coming along? It’s kinda hard to follow the tutorials when they say “press s, x then enter” and nothing happens because I have v2.3 instead of v2.29. I’ve searched high and low for some kind of updated manual, but all I can find are fragments of information here and there. I haven’t got an internet connection at home, wich is where I do all my blending. Any tips? Any news about when an updated manual will be available?
Should be available for Christmas.
Martin
Oh well, Maybe I should just learn the 2.29 interface first then. Might be better since most of the tutorials are written for pre2.3 blender. Christmas might be sweeter than in a long time this year 
i suggest working with the old doc and the new blender (except for ika, because thats buggy in 2.3) …
just have a look at the changelog from time to time
There’s no IKA since 2.20, they were replaced by the much better Armature system.
Martin
YAY!
So now you know what to ask to Santa Claus 
Stefano
YAY!
So now you know what to ask to Santa Claus ;)[/quote]
Didn’t know Santa was italian
Martin
Well, strictly speaking he’s not
How Nicholas Archbishop of Myra became
“San Nicola di Bari” in 1087
and San Nicolaus - then Santa Claus - for the rest of the world
Italians who share the common traditions of Roman Catholicism have often felt it necessary to claim one saint as the patron for their province, town, or area. Apulians have certainly done so for centuries.
Hagiography (any literature that concerns the saints) has long played a crucial cultural role in how Apulians choose and venerate their haloed patrons. The existence of a text about this religious person implied that he had received some form of public honor and institutional recognition of exceptional sanctity, and had entered God’s kingdom as a saint. Since the day of death is the first day the holy one enters Heaven, the official recognition of sainthood was the celebration of this death date as a “feast day”: the existence of a relic shrine also enters into “official” recognition.
Devotion to Nicholas, Archbishop of Myra [circa 245 - 326 AD; feast day: December 6], was well-established in the West and many miracles had been attributed to him before his corpse and relics were moved from Turkey to Italy in 1087. Legends attached to Nicholas supported his reputation as a kind, solicitous, generous man. [Example: one tale has him saving three poor girls from prostitution by giving them dowries big enough to attract good husbands.]
Factually, however, all that is known is this: Nicholas was born to an affluent family and became Archbishop of Myra [i.e., Turkey in the 1990s] in the 4th century. The rest is “spin” – not unlike the colorful, spinning of gossip that attracts tourists to a region with year-round resident celebrities.
When Myra and its great shrine finally passed into the hands of the Saracens, several Italian cities saw this as an opportunity to acquire the relics of St. Nicholas for themselves. According to The Catholic Encyclopedia: “There was great competition for the relics between Venice and Bari. The last-named won, the relics were carried off under the noses of the lawful Greek custodians and their Mohammedan masters, and on May 9, 1087 were safely landed at Bari, a not inappropriate home seeing that Apulia in those days still had large Greek colonies. A new church was built to shelter Nicholas’s remains and the Pope Urban II was present at their enshrining.”
What a prize and there he lay: Nicholas, the patron saint of Russia, Greece, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Sicily, Loraine, etc. And who had him now, magnificently installed as a permanent tourist attraction? Bari had secured both a magnet for souvenir-buying tourists and a moralistic figure to keep children’s behavior in check.
…
Stefano
I had a few questions with regards to the 2.3 manual:
- Will it be a exact duplicate of the on-line documentation?
- Is it possible to pre-order it?
- About how much $ will it be?
Thanks for the history lesson S68 and all your hard work.
Much appreciated
There is a link at http://www.blender3d.org/ when you download Blender 2.30 that updates the various changes such as this. (Perhaps you downloaded it from a direct link) (Maybe you can check it out from an internet connection at school or work or maybe an Internet Cafe, if they have those in your area).
[quote=“S68”]
Well, strictly speaking he’s not
How Nicholas Archbishop of Myra became
“San Nicola di Bari” in 1087
and San Nicolaus - then Santa Claus - for the rest of the world
Italians who share the common traditions of Roman Catholicism have often felt it necessary to claim one saint as the patron for their province, town, or area. Apulians have certainly done so for centuries.
Hagiography (any literature that concerns the saints) has long played a crucial cultural role in how Apulians choose and venerate their haloed patrons. The existence of a text about this religious person implied that he had received some form of public honor and institutional recognition of exceptional sanctity, and had entered God’s kingdom as a saint. Since the day of death is the first day the holy one enters Heaven, the official recognition of sainthood was the celebration of this death date as a “feast day”: the existence of a relic shrine also enters into “official” recognition.
Devotion to Nicholas, Archbishop of Myra [circa 245 - 326 AD; feast day: December 6], was well-established in the West and many miracles had been attributed to him before his corpse and relics were moved from Turkey to Italy in 1087. Legends attached to Nicholas supported his reputation as a kind, solicitous, generous man. [Example: one tale has him saving three poor girls from prostitution by giving them dowries big enough to attract good husbands.]
Factually, however, all that is known is this: Nicholas was born to an affluent family and became Archbishop of Myra [i.e., Turkey in the 1990s] in the 4th century. The rest is “spin” – not unlike the colorful, spinning of gossip that attracts tourists to a region with year-round resident celebrities.
When Myra and its great shrine finally passed into the hands of the Saracens, several Italian cities saw this as an opportunity to acquire the relics of St. Nicholas for themselves. According to The Catholic Encyclopedia: “There was great competition for the relics between Venice and Bari. The last-named won, the relics were carried off under the noses of the lawful Greek custodians and their Mohammedan masters, and on May 9, 1087 were safely landed at Bari, a not inappropriate home seeing that Apulia in those days still had large Greek colonies. A new church was built to shelter Nicholas’s remains and the Pope Urban II was present at their enshrining.”
What a prize and there he lay: Nicholas, the patron saint of Russia, Greece, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Sicily, Loraine, etc. And who had him now, magnificently installed as a permanent tourist attraction? Bari had secured both a magnet for souvenir-buying tourists and a moralistic figure to keep children’s behavior in check.
…
Stefano[/quote]
totaly off topic… 
I just took a look at amazon (germany). You can order it now. It will be £36.35 or EUR 56,19. Release date 1.1.2004.
ISBN 1593270410
I think this will be my christmas present…
Daniel
Hehe, release will be in two stage. Book will be on sale on www.blender.org much earlier than on Amazon 
Stefano