Daz Harris

I tried all the major 3D programs before settling on Blender, and i really think Blender has the best default hotkey feature set of all of them, it's extremely powerful and well thought out. Good Dutch design i guess! 🙂 I'd suggest (to save you a lot of hassle and annoyance later) to change as little of the hotkeys as you can, apart from the really crucial ones like pan / rotate / zoom. And for the rest, just learn the Blender hotkeys. Because it's really easy to mess things up in the hotkey assignments and it's also useful to have the same hotkeys as everyone else, that makes following youtube tutorials a lot easier. I also had the experience (but not recently) that loading a hotkey template also deleted it, which lost me hours of hotkey tweaking work (i guess it was a bug), so in the end i decided to change as little as possible, apart from the pan / rotate zoom keys which i really liked how 3DS Max does it.

Hi folks, This is a bit of a weird question because i'm actually a Blender user, but i'd like to know how a certain effect was created in C4D. Please take a look at the film linked below. Starting at around 6 seconds in, on the main “Saturday Night” text, you can see the beveled text edges have specular reflections moving in some interesting, sometimes opposite directions. In wondering about how to recreate this effect, I’m thinking there are two main possibilities: Firstly, it’s some trick with a shader and animation. So, emissive light sources are moving along the text edges. Or, it’s actual (well, fake, but you know what i mean) reflections from a few arrays of lights, moving in different directions. So just to be clear, i'm not looking for an ABC description of what to do, because i'm not a C4D user, but i'd just like to know if anyone knows how, in general, this effect was achieved? Perhaps it's some C4D plugin that's widely known?! If i know roughly how it was done, i can try to approximate something similar in Blender. Unfortunately i can't ask the guy who made it because i believe he died earlier this year. Thanks in advance! https://vimeo.com/channels/1808394