The Still New What Did You Last Do Thread

[Ethril]

Why did I never know about Headline Smasher before now?
I need to stop reading the top-rated ones before I break a lung.

Meanwhile, in Team Fortress 2...

edit: oh look top of the page again. all by myself.
IT'S LONELY AT THE TOP

[Nash]

I updated to Blender 2.70 from 2.69 and I am already seeing changes to the user interface. UGH. Why do they feel the need to always introduce learning curves by constantly changing the UI!? Eventhough the changes are small at the moment, I'm sure it'll keep changing more and more with each release. Now I was fortunate that since I came from 2.69, I am able to keep up with the tiny changes to the UI... imagine if I upgraded to 2.75 or 2.8 or whatever from 2.69... I'd probably ragequit.

Why can't they be like Max and stick to the same damn UI forever?

[Marisa the Magician]

Celebrated the return of overclocking to the Linux NVIDIA drivers with a neat little OC session. So far the only direct benefit I've noticed is that window dragging stutters less. I have yet to see how much I'd gain in games.

[leileilol]

I haven't upgraded past 2.66a since they broke painting in 2.67. Who the hell didn't test that past the release candidates? Sometimes it feels like they work with a committee that just are programmers that stick around and say something's cool without taking the power artist (i.e. those who don't just test with Monkey then call it a day) in mind.

[NeuralStunner]

I updated to Blender 2.70 from 2.69 and I am already seeing changes to the user interface. UGH. [...] Why can't they be like Max and stick to the same damn UI forever?

This is highly unfortunate. 2.6's UI kicks ass (especially compared to a couple versions prior).

Oh, but it's a little worse when they completely overhaul the API and it bricks every addon you have.

Incidentally, what the hell is wrong with version numbering systems? Between the ones incrementing major version for minor changes (20.0.1, really Firefox? You never ever change the second number...) and the ones incrementing minor version for major changes (HI AGAIN BLENDER) there is rarely much relevance to version numbers any more. (ZDoom is one of the few projects I've seen that even numbers sanely.)

[IMX]

Speaking of numbers and updates, I never understood how and when to tag something as alpha, beta, RC, and the version numbering. Any help?

[TheBadHustlex]

I guess that's the programmers choice. But I'm not sure, I don't really follow any rules and standarts in my modding.

[ChronoSeth]

Speaking of numbers and updates, I never understood how and when to tag something as alpha, beta, RC, and the version numbering. Any help?

As I understand it, Alpha is not feature-complete. Beta has most or all major features, but is still missing minor features and/or is still buggy. Release candidates are complete in both features and content, and as such are considered for release, but are still subject to bug testing and last-minute changes before release.

Unfortunately some developers seem to have forgotten that the designations are supposed to mean something.

[TheBadHustlex]

Is there something like a "gamma"-state of a project?

[Project Shadowcat]

Is there something like a "gamma"-state of a project?

I want to bet that is the Release Candidate stage.

[Ghastly]

As I understand it, Alpha is not feature-complete. Beta has most or all major features, but is still missing minor features and/or is still buggy

An addendum to that, alpha is always in-house and only developers can access, beta is accessible to testers (either in closed or open beta).

Of course, Steam Early Access and things like that have really thrown these out the window. These days it's an excuse to sell things that are still in alpha, or label finished products beta so people don't complain as loudly when it's broken.

[DoomRater]

Is there something like a "gamma"-state of a project?

Only if you're Uber.

[Marisa the Magician]

So Iron Man 2 was on TV a while ago. Yeah, you totally can't tell it's sponsored by Oracle

[Viscra Maelstrom]

it took me a hell of a lot of time, but following Nash's advice from way back when, i finally made a thread at homerecording.com. granted, the intro thread i made was pretty vague when it comes to what i wanted to ask, but baby steps i suppose.

[Nash]

Already found an annoying bug in Blender 2.7

1) Numpad 5 to orthographic view
2) Numpad 1 to switch to front view
3) Rotate view with middle mouse

The view gets forced into perspective mode and I have to press Numpad 5 again to get it back to orthographic mode

lol fuck this shit