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Yes you are right, a lot of GI methodes are raytracing based. But even then i would like to see such things on a per material basis. With "not mesh based" i want to express that i want it to be transparent to me, i dont want to see the subdivision, i just want the object lit without (visible) modifi...

Some thoughts: As an artist i must say that ray tracing realy isnt the "holly cow" for doing renderings. In fact it is only usefull for very few limited things like refractions. A lot of high class renderers dont use raytracing at all or only on a material basis. Shadows are usualy equaly well or be...

-A 3D gizmo for editing. pressing a key everytime i want to move something simply is to much for me :-) gestures are bad for my mousehand. - A better way for doing selections. pressing b-key for border select is to much for me, i do most selections as border selects. I want to be able to add/subtrac...

I think that not the interface is what makes blender stick out but that it is realy quite complete for a freeware product. I realy like fast UIs with lots of Hotkeys, i learned a lot of my 3D skill on Softimage and hotkeys where a must then. But even with hotkeys some tasks are quite slow in blender...