Third Party Tools / Blender with a different UI

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samoh
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Posted: 24th Mar 2018 00:44
Reading the posts on AppGameKit forum, no one seems to know about Bforartists. It is a fork of Blender with a different UI.
If Blender give you problems with its UI, you should give this a try.
On its website it states:

The primary goal of the Bforartists fork is to deliver a better graphical UI and a better usability.
This means a complete switch in the usage philosophy. Away from the hotkey and speed centered usage.
Towards a user friendly and intuitive graphical UI.

https://www.bforartists.de/
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Pirate Myke
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Posted: 24th Mar 2018 04:28
That looks a lot more user friendly to me.
Thanks for posting.
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Posted: 24th Mar 2018 05:34 Edited at: 24th Mar 2018 05:37
Your welcome Myke.

I am surprised that Bforartists is not better known in the 3D graphics community.
I found it some time back on Reiner's Tilesets web page. Reiner is one of the developers of Bforartists.
You may also find his low poly 2D and 3D graphics to be of some use.
They are free to use for non commercial and commercial.
Be sure to check out his license page.

http://www.reinerstilesets.de/
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AmenMoses
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Posted: 24th Mar 2018 08:26
Now all we need is a version for blithering idiots so I can use it.
Been there, done that, got all the T-Shirts!
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MStockton
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Posted: 24th Mar 2018 09:50
I've been sitting on it for months and never tried it... One of these days.
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granada
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Posted: 24th Mar 2018 10:42
Cool I might be able to use this version of blender,I will give it a try thanks for posting.

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seppgirty
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Posted: 24th Mar 2018 13:45
Tiles even made some basic getting started tutorials to watch. This a much easier UI to use (if you are just starting out with blender)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1XpDPF1kqrOM3XZIdjSl8Q
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Belidos
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Posted: 24th Mar 2018 16:15
No thanks, I've tried and didn't like it at all. For me it is certainly not user friendly in any way. Instead of using a single key press you now have to hunt through endless menus, lists of icons, and tons of sidebars just to find what you need. Not to mention the excessive amounthe of new sone bars and toolbars that take up stupid amounto of valuable screen space, so no thanks, not for me.

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Posted: 24th Mar 2018 23:24 Edited at: 24th Mar 2018 23:35
I have to agree with Belidos on the more cluttered UI, but that is the trade off in using a more graphical approach. If you are familiar with Blenders hotkeys then Bforartists is taking several steps backwards in usability. As for the hotkeys themselves, most of them are still there, except for the tools. According to the Bforartists manual on the keymap:

Users can implement their own hotkeys how they need it and when they need it.

The keymap that you can find in the Input Manager in the User Preferences contains all available user interaction. And not just the usual hotkeys to call tools like in other software. There is no distinction between tools and things like editor manipulation. Every user interaction is defined here. So be careful what you change at the listed input nodes. You may remove a vital part to deal with windows for example.
The hotkeys are also editor specific. So there are lots of repetitions when you need the same hotkeys across several editors too.






Link below to a PDF



https://www.bforartists.de/data/manual/2.1%20Bforartists%20Standard%20Keymap.pdf
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granada
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Posted: 25th Mar 2018 03:28 Edited at: 25th Mar 2018 03:28
I would have to have a list for the hot keys printed and put up on the wall as I just can’t remember them all so I like the klick icon aproch .

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