http://www.blenderstorm.org/qapoll/ideas en-us Fri, 21-Nov-2008 00:00:00 UTC Fri, 21-Nov-2008 00:00:00 UTC QAPoll module http://www.blenderstorm.org/qapoll/ideas/item/103/
hold a key (eg. shift) while looking around in the 3d viewport to snap to the closest orthographic view (front, side, top etc)

makes for an extremely quick modelling workflow and almost voids the use of the numpad keys to change views

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and it would be great if brecht finished the approximate one bounce GI he mentioned in a blog post once.

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http://www.opengl.org/resources/code/samples/mjktips/rts/index.html

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Example:
idea1 hast 10 postivie votes and 0 negative votes.
idea2 has 60 positive votes and 50 negative votes.
Both ideas show 10 votes.

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So you could hold Ctrl and objects would snap to the surface of terrain for instance.



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I'm making an animation with an aeroplane and it would be really useful if I could track-to the aeroplane's position in the next frame, so that the aeroplane is facing where its going. This would prevent so much manual adjustment and save a lot of time.

This can probably be done with a python script, but would be easier to use as a constraint property.

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In the world buttons though, there are the REAL and PAPER buttons, even though they have no use, if the BLEND button isn't active as well, according to the manual.

So my suggestion would be to hide those two button while BLEND hasn't been activated.

Cheers
Dan

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Tools
Interface
GameEngine
Multimedia

I really like it when websites' menu items show the nr of items in them as in:

Tools (0)
Interface (1)
GameEngine (543)
Multimedia (5)

I'd say for the technical bit add an extra table to which one is added every time someone posts... then you don't need to do a COUNT(*) on the database for all of those things.

BTW, could be even nicer if it showed it for all menu sections... but it may be a bit db heavy.

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