Forum: Blender


Subject: Why is Blender so hard to understand?

EClark1894 opened this issue on Jul 04, 2011 · 116 posts


RobynsVeil posted Sat, 06 August 2011 at 10:39 PM

Well, I just turned 59, so everyone seems young to me, Amanda. Which made Blender 2.5x a bit more of a challenge: I'd finally gotten my head around a fair few of the hotkeys in 2.49b and was happily modelling away, and now spacebar is different and a lot of stuff is just different. Wish there was a hotkey for that Select Only Visible toggle thingie - I go back and forth so much on that one.

But sometimes I really think they want to keep Blender sort-of less-than intuitive for us Windows-conventions users because it's also a Linux toy and Mac toy and they have different conventions to Windows.
Oh, and geek-status, too, maybe? :blink:
"I Blender, therefore I've attained a distinction as having learned an arcane interface rivalled only by Vi (or Vim)" -- whatever. It's powerful and it's free and I wouldn't be without it. Once we get BMesh, little else the others have to offer that can ever come close in terms of power and capability.

Did I mention it was free?

Monterey/Mint21.x/Win10 - Blender3.x - PP11.3(cm) - Musescore3.6.2

Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehen
[it is clear that humans have contempt for that which they do not understand] 

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