I think they are way better at marketing than at squashing the bugs I want fixed because they affect me!
It could be said that they spend quite some energy at doing marketing, but I donāt necessarily agree. I understand why they want the flashy website. And I think theyāre doing it well. And also they donāt spend crazy amounts of time and money with marketing all year round.
It could be an indication that enough of the main major pain points in Blender itself have either been addressed or are being addressed that people are looking outside of the application itself to find something to complain about. If this is the case, then the BF is arguably on a roll right now.
Now there are still pain points and arguably a couple of controversial changes in Eevee Next, but with even sculpt mode seeing major attention now and the BGE no longer being a thing to complain about regarding lack of progress, the tradition of keeping Blender release threads from becoming an ensemble of praise must continue.
For the official one you can find on Blender section, I extract some parts from Whatās new section and show also Ray Portal Node features from some designer.
I saw know there is a discussion about the clarification about UI/UX about Release Notes
Pretty cool release on the overall IMO, lotās of new stuff to play with and many small UI attention that makes blender much more slick to work with !
Iām super exited and looking forward to have time to make cool personal projects with it ! For now at work Iām stuck with 4.1 and Iām already a bit sad
Indeed look pretty incredible. Sadly I donāt get to use Blender at all at the moment for work but itās great to watch the progress.
I wish my very expensive CAD system (Inventor) got even a quarter of this effort put into it. Blender progresses more in 4 months than it does in 4 years.
Do you realize that many people probably donāt have Tooltips even turned on? Or even if on, hardly bother to read it? (Which - given the average level of tooltip usefulness in Blender, is understandableā¦)
The checkbox isnāt just ānot clearā. Itās misleading; the fact that people are now asking āhey, does this checkbox do what it says?ā demonstrates the problem.
You can turn tooltips off? Wasnāt aware of that.
I am struggling to understand what kind of practical problem people could run into. What could happen is, they would add another repository, a dubious/questionable one, get some extensions from there and then uncheck allow internet access?
Thereās no point in responding to this, there are the better part of 25 replies just in this thread explaining exactly what youāre asking. Given this, I have to assume you either havenāt read the replies before adding your own, or this question is not serious but just for the sake of arguing. Either way, it contributes nothing to this discussion
I am asking about actual problems people could run into because of this. I havenāt seen any reply in that regard. If I missed it, feel free to point to it.