Collab 2020: Modeling Heavy Equipment (Backhoe)

[Shawn Blanch]

I upgraded to the 2.9 alpha. I’m in Blender Heaven

[spikeyxxx]

2.90 is a bit like a forbidden fruit; we are supposed to thoroughly test 2.83, because that is going to be the LTS version, but 2.90 gets all the new goodies, so it’s  hard not to play with it;)

[Omar Domenech]

What are you guys talking about 2.9? Don’t we have to go through 2.83, 2.84, 2.85, 2.86, 2.87, 2.88, 2.89 and then it goes 2.9?

[Shawn Blanch]

@dostovel  I shouldn’t but ……. https://builder.blender.org/download/ 

If I read it correctly: They are stopping the 2.8 series at 2.83 I believe and then 2.9 will be coming next.

[Omar Domenech]

But why? What’s the rush with skipping the numbers? Isn’t it something like when you were 10 years old and you desperately wanted to be 18, and next year instead of being 11 you declared you’re 18 now?

My mind goes to that maybe there’s something wrong with Ton’s health and he wants to live to see Blender 3.0 or something like? I hope not, but still did they give any reasons?

[spikeyxxx]

@dostovel ‘What’s in a name?’

[Ingmar Franz]

I’m playing a little bit with 2D-Bezier curves and the drawings from Jake’s treasure chest:

PS: I’ve just downloaded Blender 2.9alpha only to take a look at but will continue with 2.82 for the backhoe modeling.

[Omar Domenech]

What’s in a name? I’m so confused. I took a pill for a headache and went to sleep, I feel I woke up in another dimension. Let me google John Lennon, maybe he’s alive in this one.

[spikeyxxx]

@dostovel https://code.blender.org/2020/02/release-planning-2020-2025/

Maybe enlightening, maybe confusing, but this is the plan…

[Omar Domenech]

That was enlightening, thanks Spikey.

I’m starting to get the feeling that Blender is going to get much more complicated and difficult to keep up with,  lots of new features are already piling up for me that I still have yet to look at.

So for users like me, who don’t even know anyone else in real life that does 3D, uses Blender sporadically and has been a great hobby to do some extra freelance job… it is starting to look like maybe it will be harder to keep up with the pace in the not too distant future.

[Shawn Blanch]

@dostovel Blender is not the only thing going that way. Technology has been getting hard to keep up with in recent years. I stop trying to know everything and just look forward to @jlampel   live streams for the release info. He does a lot of the hard work for us.

[Shawn Blanch]

@duerer That is looking awesome. I know from the images that the interface to the wheel appears quite different on the back axle versus the front.

I’m going to play it safe unfortunately……..Many of the images that I have access to are already in Jake’s link so I’ll keep in line with the copyright stuff and we’ll see how far we can get without me providing more.

[Ingmar Franz]

Further detailing the wheel’s hub:

[Omar Domenech]

@duerer you’re a good chap my boy, DOG is going to own CAT in no time. I should make a circular logo now that I see that.

[Ingmar Franz]

@Omar:  I’m looking forward to your modified logo 😀!

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