SUPER DUPER Awesome!!
Haha, all the hype about 2.5 is kind of funny…but I have to admit, you all make me excited as well. It’s quite nice to see a wonderful program as Blender getting even more wonderful and to be able to watch the whole progress, even if it’s only by following some development logs…
Still, it makes me feel like I’m part of something much bigger…like not only being a user of a program but being a bit of an adventurer and a small kid who gets all of his wishes fulfilled… 
That sums up pretty nicely how I feel too :eyebrowlift:
This is the spirit of Open Source!
Man, Brecht and Ton are working like MAD right now, the updates keeps coming faster
than I can compile it 
Ctrl + o (for open Recent) now opens up a file list so you “potentially” can load some
of your scenes - YAY!
I’m betting this will be a REALLY long 2.5 Thread about every little thing added - annoying perhaps…but still heaps of fun!
You can pass the filename as argument and it will open it too, no need to rename to .B.blend or use open recent.
Martin
Ah, Nice! I’ve completely forgotten about the command line options with Blender. Thx.
Log Message:
2.5
Drawing and viewing code for view3d back (no not objects :).
Quick test: converted 2250 ugly lines of code in 2.5 hours.
With about 300k lines todo, this will be 333 hours = 30 days? Whoa!
YAY, only 290,000 lines left!
Funniest “only” I’ve seen in a while… 
Good work devs, appreciated as always! Is there some way we can shout them a coffee/beer/red bull each? Little donation tab or something?
Lots of Aussies love Blender, I don’t know why 
Is there a secret to this?
We love betting for the under dogs. It is kind of cool watching something that most would give up on come back and bite it’s competition on the ass. That’s how it is with me anyway. Though I learned of blender while here in Japan.
Americans like the underdog too, at least we used to. Maybe this is why
the shoe-throwing guy is so popular.
YAY! New blender icons are in! 
And now Select, shading, layers works too - we’re getting there, those MAD coders are …yes…working like mad with NO stopping - this may happen sooner than we thought!
KUDOS!!!
I see that the interface looks to be mostly the same so far, only with much cleaner code behind it. The new icons look more descriptive and modern.
one little thing i didn’t like about this thread is the title…
there are a lot of committed developers that deserve credit and if it wasn’t for them, we wouldn’t have these cool improvements
dyf I agree… Maybe this thread should be named “2.5 updates thread - Yay to all the brilliant devs!” or something to the same effect
one little thing i didn’t like about this thread is the title…
There are a lot of committed developers that deserve credit and if it wasn’t for them, we wouldn’t have these cool improvements
+1
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I hate to quote myself…but I actually mentioned that in the second post
of this thread - guess the original poster didn’t get that:
Quoting myself (shivers…)
"Naw - they’re all GREAT people and they ALL contribute to 2.5, not just Ton.
I’m really looking forward to the refactoring myself - can’t wait! "
WHAT! You mean Ton doesn’t write ALL of the code??? Next you’ll be saying that he didn’t invent the internets, or that Brecht didn’t raise Lazarus from the dead. Heretics!!!
“Ton so loved the world that he gave his only begotten coder Brecht Van Lommel, that whosoever believeth on him, shall not perish in spaghetti code but have everlasting life, not to mention a sweet RNA wrapper.”
gotcha, thanks guys. so a wee bit like what happened to yafaray in terms of restructuring the whole thing to make it bigger, better and faster. oh yeah.