See, I’m terrible at making titles.
So, I’ve been using blender and while I still hate lots of things about it (the sucky FBX support comes to mind), I’m starting to learn to like it. In fact I’m almost as good with Blender as I was with 3dsMax, part of that is thanks to a 3DsMax interaction preset for blender 2.5 or else I would still be fighting the horrible right click to select and middle click to rotate and all the others.
But every time I use it, one question comes to my mind…where is the “Chamfer” button? I constantly ‘troll’ myself with that one, “Oh, now let me just chamfer that edge there and it’ll be perfect…” followed by “Yeah, that’s why you don’t make perfect stuff, no chamfer.”
There was another one…but it just slipped from my mind in the last 5 minutes, sorry.
Another thing that has been bugging me is Unwrapping stuff, every time I use seams it fucks up — non organic stuff –, no idea if seams are the correct thing, but they sure should be saving me a lot of time but they aren’t since Blender does some magic (oh, I have this tendency to say ‘magic’ when I mean ‘shit’) and it ends up strange. Other thing is that blender hates to unwrap stuff and keep the proportions, which normally culminates in me rotating and scaling faces for quite a bit of time until I find the proper direction and proportion, thanks to that, texturing a friggin brick turns into a 30 minutes job instead of 5 at most, let alone more complex things, although a good part of that can be alleviated — on simple models — by using “Project from view”, works nice on bricks… 
(me and this silly rabbit…every time I use it, it makes me look like an idiot and yet I do not stop using it, there must be some sort of lesson hidden in that, no idea what it is.)
A randomly good thing — debatable — is that I compile my own blender (yes, my own, no game engine or player here, I need a 3d modelling program, not a game engine) so everytime it updates more than 5 files I compile it, joking, joking…it’s only when it updates the fbx exporter. Now being serious it’s at least once a day. That is another sign that I’m a complete geek.
After re-reading this post, I can’t help but notice the emptiness of it all…
So I’ll talk about something else.
Like…I frigging lost my notebook — as in writing pad, not as in laptop — that had some ideas/concepts/problem solving for ‘Colina Silenciosa’.
Speaking of that project, I wonder how the hell will I replace all of the mentions to it on this blog when we finally agree on a name for it, that will be a fun day, with SQL queries and all.
Also don’t know where my prints of H.P. Lovecrafts works are, this brings me to the following theory: I must be getting up in the middle of the night and dumping anything paper into some hole or something. <- There! Most flawless theory ever.
See you soon, with more flawless theories and Blender bashing.