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/me notes that in addition to the default Screen (3d View) there are a number of task-specific Screens predefined.

See the little dropdown menu (Choose Screen Layout) at the top.

I hear both Max and Maya have great support for their keymaps.

Blender keys are customizable now. Have at it! As always, patches are welcome.

http://www.blender.org/development/submit-a-patch/

When I try to go to File->User Preferences ->System Blender crashes A definite sign for graphics problems! It is important to remember that the graphics subsystem is composed of a video card/chipset + the video driver. Often updating the driver from the card manufacturer's site (not your operating ...

Sounds like an OpenGL problem.
Things to try:

* Play with the Window Draw Method setting under File->User Preferences ->System

* Update your video driver from the card manufacturer's website

* turn off compositing window manager's like Aero or compiz

The endgame here is to end up with a complete command like "blender -P some_script.py" In python, you can do something like: mport os cmd = 'blender' flags = ' -P ' script = 'some script.py' space = ' ' # our final cmd is 'blender -P some_script.py' os.system( cmd + space + flags + space + script ) ...

Disclaimer: I am completely unfamiliar with the Smoke internals, but.... From a quick peek at the API docs, it looks like the voxel data is written to a file. Since the smoke density array only has 32 elements it probably is not the entire set of voxels unless you are doing verrrrrrry tiny domains (...

String[] callAndArgs1 = {"C:\\Program Files\\Blender Foundation/Blender/blender.exe", "C:\\Users\\Desktop\\Scripting.py" }; Looks like you have the executable name (blender), the script to run (scripting.py), but no flags or switches to tell blender what to do with that file. Run 'blender -h' at th...

It sounds like you want to craeate a a mesh as the convex hull of a point cloud.

Looking at the BMesh code would be a good start.

I don't have a Java example for you since I am forbidden from Java coding by the court's restraining order. However most languages have some implementation of the C language system() call. It basically looks like this: system("some program to run") The stuff that goes into the "some program to run s...

Blender itself has no intrinsic methods for calculating the volume, but the curve control points are available via Python and the Bezier equations are all over the interwebs or in a computer graphics handbook. Wolfram might be a good place to look. Google is your friend.

Just spawn off a process by whatever the Java equivalent of the system() call is. Doing 'blender -h' will give you the command line switches.

Is that the entire tag? It seems to be lacking in spatial/geometric information.

There are some people involved with running Blender's Game Engine in a VR/CAVE environment. Google is probably your friend here.

You added the new part in Edit mode which makes everything one object. Use the P-key to seParate selected parts in Edit mode.