Autodesk Maya VS Blender

[Neville_Adams]

@mahri726;567295

Blender 2.8 will be a huge update. It will improve it a lot. They plan to make the node editor for shaders similar to the one in UE4. In the new viewport, you would see your mesh the same way as you would see it in UE4. (you would create your materials dirrectly in Blender, with the same knowledge as when using the UE4 material editor -then export them to the engine)
Blender devs call 2.8 the pipeline upgrade. The controll scheme will also be completely revamped, to maintain consistency with other softwares. I guess UI will also improve, because there are a lot of proposals for it related to 2.8.

Anyway, we'll find out more in september, after SIGGRAPH. They might also start a crowdfunding campaign for 2.8.

It seems that Maya users would make an easier transition to 2.8 than to the current version.

I’ve been following that, but information on it is scarce. Tom’s presentation on it was very interesting - but it was just a proposal. I got my hopes up when Price stirred the usability pot, but nothing much came of that. I eventually moved on to Modo (I’m glad I did). They said it will take around 2 years - and by the looks of it, it will be a huge update. The problem is that, other programs like Houdini, Maya, and Modo are not taking a break for the next two years either. We’ll see how it all comes along though.