atpo opened this issue on Oct 15, 2014 ยท 5 posts
HMorton posted Fri, 17 October 2014 at 8:52 PM
Hello, everyone!
Atpo, the one thing you must understand about Blender is that in order to learn it, and use it to the fullest, you need to learn and memorize the hotkeys. Unlike most other 3D applications I've tried, Blender's entire system is based on the hotkeys. While every application has their own set of customizable hotkeys, Blender depends on them even more than the UI to engage most of the tools, and to do certain basic things.
Even in some very expensive applications, that most people go to school to learn (like Maya or 3dsmax), there are buttons for everything, and it's a very graphical interface. Blender is different in that many of its tools are hidden, and need to be called upon with the various hotkeys by default. This is the beauty and the curse of Blender for many people. While I believe this is a system that encourages a much faster way to work, it takes a little longer for most people to discover, and can often lead to frustration if you never used Blender before. Once you learn and use the hotkeys, the application opens up for you in a whole new way, and all the powerful tools and common things you may be used to doing become obvious, in a far FASTER and BETTER way than any other application.
Stick with it. Learn the hotkeys of the latest builds (they might be different than older builds) by reading the docs and forums, and asking questions. Blender is the greatest 3D application out there by far, and it's FREE! :thumbupboth: