"Blender Mode" -- Autodesk Helpdesk twitter told me to post this

[Anonymous]

Let me preface this by saying that I don't legitimately think any of the ill will people have over software choices is constructive to the industry at all and this is just a totally friendly suggestion.

So some of my feed on twitter was doing a complain about blender day and as someone who primarily uses blender I felt the need to say something snarky about 3dsmax on my own twitter... the Autodesk help desk twitter actually responded to my snarky comment and started a discussion that lead me to a legitimate idea.

Blender already offers a "maya mode" that changes some hotkey, mouse and viewport functionalities to mimic that of maya to help people coming from a Maya background use the software more easily -- it would legitimately be a great/awesome feature to have something similar in max for the reverse -- a "blender mode" that can be selected that remaps hotkey presets to be similar to blender and changes viewport and mouse features (such as switching to right-click select).

I've dabbled with using both max and maya but haven't taken the leap to make any kind of full switch, something like this would make me reconsider that for sure, as I'm sure it would for a lot of blender users who use the program not because of its free status but because of interface preference.

[michael_spaw]

Thanks for the Idea. Lets see if it gets some traction from the community and what others are thinking.

Michael Spaw

3ds Max, Product Owner/Designer

Media and Entertainment Division

[dgorsman]

@michael_spaw - might be an idea to reach out to the Blender Foundation first to see if they're OK with this.  It could be considered poaching on their user base, even if "turnabout is fair play".

[electrotoast_old]

Archiving this based on the lack of community support and that we don't plan on working on this in the near future. Note that Archive does not mean delete. If at a later time we do decide to work on this, we can change its status at that point.

We are looking into UI/UX updates along the way for our current Customer User Interface tools. What we would do is provide that foundation that makes it easy for someone to set up. Then we'd love to talk with users on creating those mappings and we could share that out.