Blender on iPad Is Finally Happening (creativebloq.com)

I can't imagine trying to do real work on an iPad. But, I guess there are people now that can't image the inverse?

I tried a demo, the Blender ipad interface expects a keyboard and mouse, pen and gesture are still being worked on. There was a bug with gestures, but another app had the same bug. The pen was being demoed.

The interface is flexible but probably want to have some interface presets out of the box.

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From the ui I couldn't tell it was a special build for ipad.

Content and extensions are currently hard coded.

16 days ago, 105 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44671802

The creativebloq.com page is hard to read with all the SEO links to affiliate ecommerce link slop ("best drawing tablets", "best 3D modelling software", "best 3D modelling apps").

Is there no good web based 3D editor that works in the browser?

I loved SketchUp's interface, made tons of 3D "art" back then, and had high hopes Blender could fill the void when SketchUp was sold off Google and went subscription-based. But the various interface refactorings did nothing for casual 3D modelling and Blender is still as unintuitive and deserving of the "vi of 3D modelling" label as ever, focussing on undiscoverable keyboard nav and features for pro workflows spending 364d/year in it. What's the point of porting it to iPad OS, esp. when a keyboard and mouse is required? I even own iPad hardware with keyboard and pen and might give it a try but not if it's just a 1:1 port. Anyone checked out Blender for Artists (bforartists.de)?

I really wish Freecad would move as fast as Blender does. I mean they are doing great work and the 1.0 release also works really well, but it's really fascinating to see how much progress an open source project can make once there is a bit of funding.

Not Blender, but I made a 3D modeling app (https://noumenal.app) for iOS designed from the ground up for a touch interface, simple enough that my kids use it.

I am probably a minority, but if anything, Apple should show Blender Foundation some real appreciation for bringing such great software to their platform.