I can’t believe it, Blender crashed on me. I was working on a simple asset for Unity and Unreal 4, very simple, a set of drawers, boxy without much detail, actually no detail and poof, semi white screen then Blender stopped working. I have not had Blender crash in over a year and I was not using a build bot version. I must have hit some combination of buttons in error.
No, I did not save first but like I said it was very simple and did not take much time at all to recreate what was lost.
As the title states, I should READ. I am working through these new books for Unity3D and C#. I should have known what was happening because I have done this many times before. Working through one of the first chapters I ran into problems. When I was trying to place items on my terrain nothing was happening so, as I did before I stopped and spent hours trying to figure out the problem. Long story short, there was no problem. I decided to continue on and look at the errata for the book later to see if someone else had the same problem. The very next page the author states ‘nothing is showing’ and this is because etc. etc. and goes on to explain why and how you need to place this type of item.
Mike: Remember, READ and you may find the answer and avoid serious frustrations .
Two days after the passing of one of my favorites (Robin Williams) I am still stunned, shaken by disbelief.
I just purchased this book and will begin today. This book is written by the same person that wrote “Beginning 3D game development with Unity 4” and I thought that book was great but to many errors for my taste and I think most of those came as a result of changes in the Unity versions more than out right errors in the book. There were those, don’t get me wrong and I could work through those but the changes in the Unity versions are ones I finally could not tolerate. That is one thing I love about Blender, no matter what tutorials you are using, you can follow along for the most part even if the tutorial you are working with is from 2.49. There are features that the latest versions, (2.71 for example) does not have but for the most part those features are not in popular videos.
So, now I am back into Unity with this latest book and I will let you all know how things are going.