
IMO the development of blender is in a crisis because to much patchs, features , works etc are exeding the capacity of integration into the official release. (is good to have much things but i consider the problen is the organisation) also , in the official web page I never could see the release cycle status (is always in B-con 1!) Many web sites are off date , even in the 2.45 release notes are for 2.3x series!
What about volumetrics for blender? the only thing that keeps me with Ligthwave is its incredible HyperVoxel tecnology , I know is slow, and not used very often, bla,bla.
But for many things its simply IMPOSSIBLE to fake volumetrics and we must pay the price in time, I think some feature could not be keep away for time reasons. Blender have abando this branch intentionally.
I want to thank Letter Rip for his active participaion in forums and I always serch for his advice.
I hope someone put this fears of me away because I love Blender and I would not like to see that some distro from Alaska (for example) have better features that the official release, and have to search for all Internet to find some patch usefull for me.
