B3D Sneak Peek #17 - Tracking, Animation, UI & Modelling
Channel: Plasmasolutions
Date: 2015-01-09

In this episode:
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Movie Clip Editor:
- New Screen Layout
- More than 20 times faster affine tracking

Graph Editor:
- H for hiding
- Alt+H for unhiding
- Shift H Only selected

UI: 
- Fullscreen Editor (Alt F10), (Alt F9 toggles the header)
- Pie confirm threshold
- Chinese characters can now be entered in text buttons with IME (Input Method Editors)
- PKey does not automatically start the game engine when not in "game" engine
- New theme is in trunk (Flatty light)

Modelling
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- A new Freehand Knife Tool is now available (hold down the left mouse button), close the loop by double clicking
- Shrink / Fatten in Face Mode now uses the face normals
- Select More / Less can now step over adjacent faces (for square shaped selections)
- Select similar regions
- Individual Origins mode now supports proportional editing

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What's it all about:
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In this series I'll present at least twice a month new and (hopefully) useful features for all of you outside the Blender 3D development universe... all those features are brand new and will be available in the next official Blender version 2.73.

Greetings to all of you and thanks for all the encouraging comments! 

Download fresh builds at http://builder.blender.org (Attention: there will be bugs in it for sure!)

Happy Blending,
Thomas Beck & the Plasmasolutions Team