Ira Krakow's Blender 2.50 Tools Menu Tutorial

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November 24, 2009 marks a milestone for all Blender users because it is the release date of Blender 2.5 Alpha 0. While there is still much work to do, the release of Alpha 0 means that Blender 2.5 is formally open for user comments, testing, and feedback, at Blender Foundation's blender.org site. You can download Alpha 0 from:
http://www.blender.org/download/get-25-alpha/. You should also read the Alpha 0 Release Notes, downloadable from: http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-250/.
These give us a much clearer path of where Blender 2.5 is headed.

Some time ago, I did a Blender 2.5 Sneak Preview, at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj06t-R0Wcs, based on a pre-alpha version of 2.5. Although much of what I discussed is still valid, Blender 2.5 has evolved since then. Also, my understanding of certain features is clearer now than it was 2 months ago. So I thought it would be a good time to revisit, highlighting the new ways of doing things. This tutorial focuses on a particularly interesting new feature, the Tool Shelf, which reorganizes access to Blender tools into one menu.

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Film & Animation

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[Quiiick]

How do you remove an item you have added to the tool shelf?

[irakrakow]

It's not something they have implemented yet.  Eventually, after the alpha 0 version, they'll put it in, I'm sure.

[Quiiick]

@irakrakow Thanks for the info, Irak

Any idea when Alpha 1 will be publicly available?

I'm using "blender_26391_full" right now, which already is quite an improvement over the original Alpha 0.

[irakrakow]

No idea. When it is available, it will be at the main Blender site.

[MrBlutto]

Hi Ira,

Great video. Keep up the good work.

PS I like a guy who does his own driving.

[irakrakow]

Thank you for your your support. I've never had a driver. There will be many more videos coming.

[KopaleKopale]

Video starts at 2:00 ^_._^

[OccamKant]

@hunzedog The toolshelf seems to have been removed in the latest beta.

[hunzedog]

i cant find my tool shelf...im off to a bad start

[snapplejacksabc]

Dud thankyou so much i realy wanted to find out how to do this

[Quoranation]

I'm using alpha 2 of Blender 2.5. I like the new interface so far. I like how the keyboard shortcuts haven't changed too much.

[Spirit451]

Where is Blender 2.5 Alpha 2 tutorial?

[0xoxol0]

Oh and, with "frame" I meant of course child window.

[0xoxol0]

Honestly I find the tool- and properties shelves to be cumbersome. I wish they would replace the default animation frame with a tabbed frame holding the functions of the aforementioned shelves. Blender 2.5+ is so much better than older versions, but absense of a proper toolbar makes things cumbersome for some, me included.