Blender now Available on Steam

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Given that this raises a lot of attention it might be a good idea to update/check the tutorials on http://www.blender.org/support/tutorials/.

Btw i think it is not so cool, that cgcookie does not even offer a tutorial to model something simple for free. You don’t even get a taste?
https://cgcookie.com/blender/cgc-courses/mesh-modeling-fundamentals-blender/ is already a paid tutorial after navigating the viewport, adding / deleting objects and customizing the UI, boring stuff.

Are the any other recommendable tutorials introducing blender which might be linked?

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There’s already a place to read up on how to use all of Blender’s tools, it’s called the official manual (which I hear has been getting some serious attention lately).

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I followed the discussion loosely and some people intended to produce a pure reference manual to look things up.
If you start blender for the first time you might want to get an idea of it. You are not interested in every detail.

The old manual included this ginger bread example
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Your_First_Animation/1.A_static_Gingerbread_Man

There are plenty of tutorials on youtube. Maybe a recent beginner could recommend the most helpful ones.

By the way http://steamcommunity.com/app/365670/discussions/0/618460171314359082/

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I thinl this is great. On steam are some well known proprietary softwares, including maya. Placing blender there too will provide for more exposure. Meaning more users. Meaning more donations. Hopefully :).

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Good news!

Now that it’s set up, I’d strongly recommend selling Blender Cloud subscriptions through Steam! (quick! while blender is still fresh on steam and a ton of users are looking for tutorials!)

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I think this is a really good idea!

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Would it at all be possible to play blender through steam? like have more than one person working on the software at once or something?

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… Whoever has access to the steam account has access to the software, but only one steam account can be active at one time on any one computer. Meaning you cant run the same software on 10 computers at once.

But the bigger question is why? Blender can fit on a USB and be ran from it, it can be installed on as many computers as you want, so its a non issue. If anything just load your version of blender onto an online host somewhere (google drive for example) and just have people grab that.

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It could be used to showcase tutorials.
live sessions
new features.
have it in sync with the irc channel.

That was the gist of the question

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blender verse

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If you mean something like having a multi-user session of Blender where multiple people are editing the same scene at the same time, in real time. the answer is no.

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Blender Verse is the answer and it is yes.

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Can Verse even be revived though, I mean the original version of it was designed for the pre 2.4x versions of Blender, there’s been so many changes since then that I wouldn’t be surprised if it would need a full rewrite.

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Verse isn’t “through Steam.”

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Could be, so that you can invite steam clients via a plugin?
(your friendlist?)

sometimes I likex just hanging out coding with other people in secondlife,

I wish blender could be made into a similar ability, but without any limits.

animate, code, act , mocap or ? ? ? what ever you and your friends are into.

and blender verse I think is up to 2.62 but I am not sure,

edit - Says 2.75 @ git - So it’s up to date!