I don't know why people think learning Blender is so hard. I was a bit overwhelmed at first trying to figure it out on my own and I had already been used to 3DS Max. After I found some video tutorials on blender basics, it all fell into place. All it took was someone to explain the way it works, then I just did drills on…
quote for truth also, tell him to enable dynamic spacebar menu in settings -> addons its great since you have all these rather hidden options in one menu
Since it's really pointless, and this is speaking as one who usually does the ctrl-t thing, it would be better of if we could just get an accurate triangle count at all times.
It's funny all the hate the community gets, personally I've got virtually instant support about everything on IRC, it's been the most help I've ever got learning 3d software.
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Yeah, most of the tutorials are written by folks who dont know what they're doing at all. Sometimes it feels like blender looks at what everyone else is doing and deliberately trys to be different.
? Not sure I agree with this at all, plenty of people make a living using Blender. If you visit blendernation you'll see plenty of small studios and freelancers posting their reels of productions done in Blender.
leilei: are you talking about the current release? Honestly, I haven't verified any of the file types because really, all I use is .obj, .ase (which isn't even on there), and .fbx
Is there a chance they'll take the controls off the sliders and put them on a mouse drag/MMB scroll for recursion? Not at all familiar with programming so I wouldn't know how easy that would be to do.
Agreed, though I tried out the alpha of 2.5 and the improvements are astounding. They're significantly improving the interface and they're actually adding customizable shortcuts after all this time, so things are looking good.