[Bf-committers] Blender in da news!

[Alexander Ewering]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Mal wrote:

> Hi Alexander,
>
>>> With the addition of transform gizmos ( to allow easy world / local axis 
>>> movement of objects in perspective / camera view ), and a more feature 
>>> rich outliner ( renaming, parenting, deleting etc ), it'll be an excellent 
>>> choice
>> 
>> 
>> Eh? That has been possible for months with two keypresses.
>
> That's excellent news!  Only 2 keypresses! ;)
>
> Don't forget that it probably took you a few days or weeks to figure out 
> those 2 keypresses.  New students find modelling in a 3D environment with 
> faces and vertices difficult enough, without having to learn 40 different 
> keypresses on top of that.
>
> I'd like to see it in 0 keypresses, and done visually ( it's hard to forget 
> how to use an intuitive onscreen gizmo ).

Hehe, I won't discuss... It's the general direction the world is going.
Companies save 2 weeks teaching their staff how to use software, and lose
4 years because of the inefficient work their employers do because they
use Gizmos all the time instead of having learned 40 keypresses once and
for all ;-)

Off-topic, so I'll keep quiet :-)

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