Big drop yesterday. Rudy Michau, creator of the hard surface modelling addon "Fluent", has just released version 4. I installed it and had a very quick peek. Very nice!
A minor peeve, one that is all too common in the addon community: don't release a major new version of your product without a minimal level of documentation. How about some basic release notes? Five bullet points? (EDIT: So this is located on the Discord group. Fair!) There is a nice release video. It does the announcement part of the release quite well, but I will miss essential changes, misunderstand functionality, and get frustrated. This annoyance may be because I'm not using Fluent regularly enough. It's a fantastic tool that gives you super shortcuts to powerful hard surface modelling, but I get into trouble all the time, so I end up corrupting my models and then struggle to clean up the problems. Hard Ops is more powerful, but it's a somewhat overwhelming set of tools that requires a lot more training investment (which I have made through a training course).
Cha..cha..cha...changes
Documentation
This really is a "power move". Fluent gave you the tools to create folded cylinder forms, but I found them all but unusable because the Boolean cuts on a circular array had the most fiddly and counterintuitive controls.
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