This quick Blender 2.5 tip video demonstrates an easy way to copy over your settings from previous testing builds of Blender 2.5 to the latest build you have downloaded.
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thats important to know, good hint on the .blend *thumbsup
one thing to watch out for, however:
due to the development of blender 2.5, some things change drastically between builds.
using a .blend file from a previous build can sometimes cause problems in areas that a still changing/evolving/being refined.
for example, the official alpha0 release is completely incompatible with new builds in some areas.
When I open a blend file that I had started in 2.49 in 2.5 it changes the layout to mimmic 2.49 at least thats what it looks like to me. Is there a way to open them and still keep the 2.5 default layout?
Thanks
Yes, there is a way. Just open up Blender 2.5 and append the scene from the file you wish to work on. You can then delete the original scene in the Blender 2.5 instance that you opened and rename the one you appended.
There’s also an option “Load UI” that is checked by default, just uncheck that and your good to go
i think you could simply load the old .B.blend via File/open and disable “load UI”. Then save user settings.
What if you’re on mac?
@ JONATHAN WILLIAMSON
Looks like this only needs to be done when using blender for the Windows OS.
When working with Blender for MacOS X you always get the same user-defined settings which is stored in a central location, no matter what version of Blender you use.
This should be mentioned in your tip-video.
Thanks for this great tip Jonathan
Some advice, please:
I still have not installed 2.5 as it’s not recommended yet. David does his tutorials in 2.5, the others mostly in 2.49 – could we either just all wait for 2.6 until the 2.5 training series will be released or should we all switch to 2.5 now, even though it’s not fully functional yet? Or should we just run both versions?
I’m sure that for newbies consistency might be important – I can adjust and so do many others, but it might throw people who start with Blender off a bit.
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