Aside from the software itself, also the confirmation you could compete with someone professional in a better known tool while using Blender, even from a productivity point of view. For example, I've barely started a tutorial today, and the usual transform gizmos we call in 3ds max and similar softwares by doing W/E/R, in…
A very important thing I've forgot to ask you @pior - you're using the Default right now, or would you mind sharing your setting if you've changed it? Where do you usually keep your left hand? Mine out of habit would have the middle finger on W and index reaching for E/R (Move/Rotate/Scale), but with Blender I get the feel…
Hello ! My setup is highly customized, in part inspired by habits from both Max and Maya while also keeping it compatible with Blender unique systems (like the off-hand manipulation discussed above). I started by first using the default keys and navigation for a while, then modified them manually to have Maya-style…
Hi everyone, I need your help to hopefully find the tools and learning material I'm looking for. So, despite I already know how to use 3ds Max, given its exorbitant cost and mine being simply an hobby with 0 income, I've decided I should learn Blender instead. The problem is two-fold because I also need a free or one-time…
Side question for Blender users There is this optical illusion called "Hering Illusion", where two straight parallel lines appear to curve outward: I'm getting the same effect with blender because of the gradients when you select vertices: < Does anyone knows a way to remove the gradient? It's messing with my…
This might sound unhinged, but for me the end product is not the goal xDI'm just killing time, it's an hobby, and I like to have something to challenge myself. 11 years ago the hobby/challenge was 3D, this was my level back then. Then I've switched hobby to drawing and learning C++, with mixed results. Then I've switched…
Like you, I stepped over from Max to Blender a while ago. You haven't given any info on what it is you want to make as an end product. Why do you need a texture program? There are texturing tools already in Blender. You should start at the other end and concentrate on what masterpieces you want to make, The hotkeys will…
@pior Got you, under the premise of not knowing what I'm going to break and what great feature I'm going to miss out on, that's really solid advice and a strong argument to learn the default first - (in fact on my first key-bind attempt, I already had to disable 20 or 30 things I had no idea about, just to not conflict…
What you say sounds really promising, but what worries me is that those transforms are pretty much "free hand" unless you hit the key for the axis every time, and beside that X-Z Y are pretty much far apart in the keyboard...Seems like something that would work better for the blockout of some organic shape, and not hard…
The one concept you need to learn regarding move/rotate/scale transformations in Blender isn't so much the way to reassign the hotkeys. It's the fact that by tapping the key assigned to the desired transform, then moving the mouse around, and then tapping the key assigned to confirm, one can work without even using any…