Re: For those considering Silo over Wings

feeds@yuku.com (arquebus) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:16:09 GMT

oooh! likey likey

Re: For those considering Silo over Wings

feeds@yuku.com (arquebus) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:17:35 GMT

You chose to put it there... check the installer options the next time you install Blender... it asks up front where to put user files.

You obviously chose the "Application Data directory" option.
I chose the "installation directory" option.

good to...

Re: For those considering Silo over Wings

feeds@yuku.com (Ran13) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:01:10 GMT

what a dumb place to hide the scripts folder though

You chose to put it there... check the installer options the next time you install Blender... it asks up front where to put user files.

Blender Install Dialogue

You obviously chose the "Application Data directory" option.
I chose the...

Re: For those considering Silo over Wings

feeds@yuku.com (arquebus) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:58:26 GMT

oort- Thanks! thats it.

what a dumb place to hide the scripts folder though

Re: For those considering Silo over Wings

feeds@yuku.com (oort) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:46:38 GMT

On my XP system it is under my Documents and Settings folder...

E:\Documents and Settings\oort\Application Data\Blender Foundation\Blender\.blender\scripts

oort

Re: For those considering Silo over Wings

feeds@yuku.com (arquebus) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:52:01 GMT

arquebus, if you are on Mac

nope. Id really like to use a Mac, but until Apple stops forcing their customers to use their hardware, I wont use a Mac. I use winXP for 3D and games (wont use Vista either) and Ubuntu Linux for everything else.

-if anyone can tell me where I find the .blender/scripts folder Id appreciate it

Re: For those considering Silo over Wings

feeds@yuku.com (Ran13) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:00:18 GMT

While you got the .blender folder open, create a new folder (in .blender) called "icons" (without quotes of course) and you can update your icons to some nicer ones (I like 'em better than the built-in ones. There are other icon themes out there, but you can hunt those down yourself. )

Copy this PNG image to that directory

Re: For those considering Silo over Wings

feeds@yuku.com (ycarry) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:12:27 GMT

arquebus, if you are on Mac (as you write path with '/' ), remember app. are folder, so right-clic on blender app. icon (to open package) where hidden ".blender" folder is.

Re: For those considering Silo over Wings

feeds@yuku.com (arquebus) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:26:39 GMT

Thanks Ran. But this is really strange, I dont have a .blender/scripts folder inside by Blender folder, even when I activate show hidden folders. Ive checked online docs and they say that ..../.blender/scripts is the correct place to put python scripts. very strange

Re: For those considering Silo over Wings

feeds@yuku.com (Ran13) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:18:24 GMT

Ran's Blender Theme

unzip this to C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\.blender\scripts\ or wherever you point Blender to find scripts.
Launch blender
Open a Script Window
From the Scipts menu in the header choose Theme and the flyout should contain my theme.

On the page I linked with the cutomization tutorial is a link to the icon PNG I use and...

Re: For those considering Silo over Wings

feeds@yuku.com (Ran13) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:19:42 GMT

I don't have them written down... I just backup my b.blend file, which is created when you hit CTRL-U to save the setup.
Unless you have a 28" monitor, you don't want that. I will export the theme file and post that.
Put the .py file in the blender scripts folder, open blender and open a scripts window.
Click on the "Scripts" menu in the header and one of the selections will be "Themes". If you put the python theme file in the right dir, my...

Re: For those considering Silo over Wings

feeds@yuku.com (arquebus) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:02:05 GMT

Ran- I really like the colors of your home version of UI. Ive already managed to change my blender viewport background, but I really want to get the panel and button colors the exact same as yours. So if you happen to have the RGB values saved somewhere (I imagine you would as I dont think you have those values commited to memory) then Id much appreciate to know what they are. Im not concerned about fonts or anything like that. Id also like to see how these UI colors look in Wings.

Re: For those considering Silo over Wings

feeds@yuku.com (Ran13) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:25:43 GMT

I use the 3D cursor a LOT for bone placement. Most joints are defined by rings of verts that define the volume. Finding the center of that volume is often a "hit or miss" when you eyeball it. Snapping the 3D cursor to the actual calculated center of the volume allows for more accurate initial placement of bones... especially in mechanical rigs (think pistons and gears and such).

In Edit mode, I select a group of verts, the center of which is where I want the bone. Hit...

Re: For those considering Silo over Wings

feeds@yuku.com (ycarry) — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:50:28 GMT

3D cursor is one of the "understand how it work and how use it then you start to smile..." thing in Blender
Pivot_Points

Re: For those considering Silo over Wings

feeds@yuku.com (extrudeface) — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:48:36 GMT

ycarry- is there away to turn off that stupid selector ring in 2.5 yet?

the stupid ring is pretty useful if know how to use it.
wether you refer to blender cursor (absolutely useful for levels and whatever architecture building or other sort of modeling) , or the gizmo (I don't use it for modeling, but a lot for rigging and animation. )

I think what he does is just use themes features. Is pretty configurable (have not watched the vid)...

Re: For those considering Silo over Wings

feeds@yuku.com (arquebus) — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:42:11 GMT

When I get home I can post the exported script for my UI if you want

yes that would be great, along with instructions on how to activate it

also the idea of using a parented hierarchy of selected vertices and being able to select your own pivot point for each selection might make for a good boneless rigging system

Re: For those considering Silo over Wings

feeds@yuku.com (Ran13) — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:29:40 GMT

http://blendernewbies.blogspot.com/2007/12/video-tutorial-pimp-your-blender-learn.html

Watch the video on how...
Scroll down for links to ready-made themes.

Big difference between my theme and 2.5...
all the features & buttons in mine actually work....

Re: For those considering Silo over Wings

feeds@yuku.com (puzzledpaul) — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:54:13 GMT

<< could I trouble you to give me those numbers? >>

Screen grab and eyedropper?

Re: For those considering Silo over Wings

feeds@yuku.com (arquebus) — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:42:53 GMT

Ran- How did you set that UI up? I like the color of the toolbars, toolpanels and buttons. I really like the sky background in the viewport. If you have to input RGB values manually could I trouble you to give me those numbers?

ycarry- is there away to turn off that stupid selector ring in 2.5 yet?

Re: For those considering Silo over Wings

feeds@yuku.com (jhouck) — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:09:20 GMT

Yeah... the new UI is looking sweet! I will still build most of my models in W3D and export them, but the rigging and animation tools in Blender are awesome!

For those considering Silo over Wings

feeds@yuku.com (wasamonkey) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:21:19 GMT

I went from Wings to Silo a couple years ago, 1.x had very solid features, some nice tools that Wings does not and allowed open meshes (which you do have to take care with)
Silo2.x looked promising and i was very excited about some of the new features it would bring.
Since it's delayed release, Silo2.x has been plagued with bugs in basic operations, dropped features, and slow to a crawl development.
Yesterday one of the dev posted saying that they are now working on a game...