Random ideas

So you could select object, and choose in the tool menu...
Hey I want to control "translate" of this object, or-
I want to control "rotation" of this object, and imediately appers a controler object and his visual representation would be up to you (circle, square, cube, cross,..)
Or lets say , I want to control rotation of this object by rotation of another object...

That would definitely save a lot of time in rigging characters...

I propose that you add so that Blender asks for confirmation when you choose "Save default settings" in the File menu.
I had opened someone else .blend file, and wanted to choose "Load factory settings" when I accidentally clicked on "Save default settings".

This caused problems for me, since it permanently changed my default workspace that I had configured as I wanted it.

So I propose that it ask for confirmation like "Do you really want to save these settings as the default settings?".

When you switch to edit mode, the mouse cursor changes into a cross. This cross cursor comes from the cursor set that's installed natively on the operating system Blender runs on.

For Windows, this means that the cross cursor is XOR-ed onto the screen by default. Still, the cross cursor is tiny, and often hardly noticable when using a gray background color for the 3d view. Darker grays make it even worse.

On Linux, this can happen as well, but it depends on the cursor set being used.

Some users/developers(?) say you should just change the system cursor, but I think that's no good. One should not have to modify the operating system properties, just to be able to find back the mouse cursor in a program.

Others say that the cross cursor is needed for precision selection, but my stance on it is that the default arrow cursor is perfectly valid for doing precise selections, as you can always see what you're about to select. Unlike when using the cross cursor.

My idea here, is to change the edit mode cursor to an arrow, so people can actually see the cursor when they need to.

Not only I am having difficulties with it:
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=124775

A feature in Blender for those who want to add custom objects. ----through the Add menu, as a primitive----
Example: 1.trademark
2.logo
3.distinctive object (like Suzanne monkey head)
4.useful object
5.test material object

this would be very helpful. It is such a nice feature I'm not sure why blender does not already have it.
(If Blender already has this feature please make it more
visible, or spread the word.)

---And yes I already know about linking and appending.---
That is very useful; for large scenes, and complex objects.

But sometimes I want quick access to a simple object.

hopefully there would be ways to easily add objects through the Edit mode, and delete these new primitives through the
Add menu. or backup to a blender primitive folder in .blender

When you enable proportional editing, you have two options:

1: normal prop. editing.
2: connected vertices.

Proportional editing allows you to edit the vertices within a sphere limit. Can this be extended allowing you to affect the vertices dependant on how many vertices are between them rather than distance?

What about a lod options to speed up the view port?
A low-res option would be a good solution with complex scenes...

instead of logic bricks, rewrite them using the same style as the material nodes editor

the sculpting tool has a number of nice ideas for interaction (scaling and intensity of the brush), usage of textures for brushes, and brush mirroring - it would be excellent if these ideas could be propagated to the rest of the painting tools.

In addition to the current node system it might be useful if one there to have a set of nodes which were aware of the x-axis location and have time_variable settings like one have for effects in the sequencer window, in fact on could completely replace the sequencer with time based nodes.
see http://matthaus.woolard.googlepages.com/blender_node
for more details

The ability to do backface culling, especially on a per object basis, would be an very useful for interior modelling and for game-level editing. It would also help spot duplicate or inverted faces.

It would be really helpful if path animation would also work in the game engine. eg. you animate the object along a path and get this to show up in the game engine by using an IPO actuator.

It would be cool if we could stick notes onto nodes and groupnodes explaining what the intention for the node is.

The best analogy I can come up with is documenting methods in programming languages.

Basicly currently if you link a script to execute on "render", it can execute either before or after the render.

It would be great if you could also be executed after a "completed render", so it doesn't execute if you stop the render halfway through.

Also it would be lovely if you could make a distinction between an Animation and a Single frame render.

Blender presently has the ability to render a region of the entire render.

This is extremely helpful for preview/tweaking purposes as a project develops.

As a project approaches completion, there are times when small adjustments are made to an area of a project that would not merit a complete re-render.

For these times, I think it would be great if Blender could have this additional render option (possibly only for non-animated scenes):

The ability to re-render a portion of a scene and then to re-incorporate that re-rendered portion back into the previous render.

If render nodes are used, the reincorporated render could then be processed as normal, since it will occupy its own input render layer.

This, of course, would not be an option without issues, especially if objects or lights in a scene are relocated and then partially re-rendered.

Possible issues a user must consider before performing a partial re-render include: ray-tracing considerations (reflection/refraction), shadows (raytraced or not), radiosity solution, materials.

Once a user understands these potential issues, a determination could then be made as to whether or not a total re-render is necessary.


Thanks for considering this concept,

RobertT

True support for Ngons, allowing a much faster box modeling work flow for those who choose to use them. I can see possibilities of benefits for architectural modeling as well as organic modeling.

On the UV mapping,
when I modify the UV, sometimes I want to keep the same mapping, but have it taking less place on the texture, to get more for some other areas.
For the moment the way to do is to bake a new texture with the new UV, that is really complicate.
So that would be convenient to have a button "make image sticked/stretched with points"
It may involve to loose datas, so it would be good to apply it to the image only when when clicked on a button "apply".

The Bezier spline has one major limit for doing proper rotoscoping. The spline's points are not animateable except for if you add hooks to the points.. The problem with this is that the handles also follow the empty, thus cancelling the auto feature on the points.. It would be extremely handy if it was possible to either keep the "auto" feature on even if the points are hooked. Or maybe an entirely new spline-object, like "roto-spline" with the possebility of animating the points without using emties and the "hook feature"..

hope this was understandable... :p

this idea come from XSI modeling tools, it's simple. just hovering around your cursor and it will highlite the hotspot of vertex, edge or face.

it has several advantages :
1). increase your work speed (minimize the wrong selection even if you work on vertex, edge or face selection at the same time).
2). clean the interface (it remove the dots in vertex or face selection).

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p79/johantri/01_vertex.jpg
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p79/johantri/02_edge.jpg
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p79/johantri/03_face.jpg

It would be nice if one could correct a vote after it has been cast. Maybe clicking the right arrow in the first place went a bit wrong, now you voted for while you wanted to vote against. Or maybe an idea got improved with a very good Feature Request that explains it All.

The title say everything... when you try to import in blender only can use :
- Camera
- Image
- Mesh
- Object
- Scene
- Text
- World

I think the option to import a layer is good. Many times I need to import all the objects, but select one by one take so long.