There has been a considerable posting gap on Blendermama. There were several reasons for the temporary blackout, for one my computer died on me and now I have a new and nicer one – I mean it works better only it has some terrible blue lights that make the space under my desk look like some crazy disco. Then me and my family are looking for a new place to live and it’s taking its toll on our energy and time. And my daughter is one year and a half and runs around a lot more.

But what upset Blendermama most was my unwillingness to go on with Blender 2.49 with the new shiny one “almost usable” at hand – I just couldn’t decide what to do next. If I had to really work – like for real life projects – I think I would have stuck with the old version until the 2.5 beta is out. But it looks as if I will be in mom-at-home land for some months still so I finally decided to make the switch. After much consideration and trying to figure out technical pros and cons I decided that…well, 2.5 SEEMS to work and, really, it looks so cool!!! 😛

I apologize to those who still work with the old and stable version that I won’t be posting anymore on 2.49 and I still think that new users should be cautious when choosing Blender 2.5 alpha if they need it for real work. All my old posts and tutorials will remain on the blog and I hope that for a while they will continue to be of some help.

So I’m back not really to zero but feel like I took some steps back as I am poking at the glossy but less familiar interface…

And guess what bugged me on my very first encounter with 2.5? the same problem I had with the old Blender, that is the “pan/rotate view” setting for the MMB! So this will be my first topic on the new Blendermama 2.5 series.