u/Messianiclegacy

Coming from C4D, I'm used to a material manager, the philosophy is that materials exist in their own right and can be edited and managed. As far as I can see, Blender's philosophy is that materials only exist as data blocks in conjunction with an object or a fake user.

If I want to inspect a material I might click on it in the shader editor, but this assigns it to whatever is selected in the outliner, which is bad practice.

It has been suggested that Blender users keep a 'preview dummy object' hanging around they can select and assign materials to when they want to browse through their scene materials as a workaround - is this true? If not, what do you do?

I woke up deaf in one ear a couple of weeks ago, happily got a quick diagnosis of sudden sensorineural hearing loss. I was on steroids very quickly wihich brought my hearing back but also brought with it tinnitus, in both ears, seemingly weighted on the other (right) ear.

Just as I was dealing with this, I woke up with pain in my upper jaw on the right side, aching and painful if I flexed my jaw. And the tinnitus was much reduced - blessed relief... but after one day I woke up and it was back, louder than ever.

Does anyone have experience with this? My hearing isnt impaired, the tinnitus is not from damage and the fact it can fade gives me a little hope, but they say its the hope that kills you. The ENT doc discharged me with no further action, but I wonder if I should go back.

Anyone getting Mac lag? The WacomTabletDriver process drifts up to 100-200MB if I let it, I can force quit and get it back to 40-50MB but it doesnt always stop the lag. There hasnt been a driver update in some time, I would prefer not to replace a perfectly good tablet over this.

My Intuos Pro S PTH-451 has recently developed interrmittent lag, where it struggles to keep up for 4-5 seconds, before working OK for another few minutes. I'm using a cable into an M1 Mac, and it's always worked fine.

I've tried different cables, different ports, tried totally uninstalling and reinstalling all of the software and drivers, but no luck.

So I wonder if they just get old and lag is a symptom of this, or if the driver is now incompatible with the hardware?

And I'll be back for season 2 - love this game.

*Actually I saw one once through a window.