Re:Show HN: Cross-platform open-source 3D modeling software
by nineteen999 on Sunday December 02, 2018 @01:53AM
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> It's not a secret that Blender has a bad UI
> But it's clearly lacking in the UI department.
It's not a secret that a small, vocal minority of Blender users feel that way. IMHO most of them have never used industry standard tools that have way stranger interfaces eg. Zbrush that are much harder to master.
> There's even a three-part article (2013) from Andrew Kramer of Blender Guru
It was actually Andrew Price:
https://www.blenderguru.com/articles/fixing-blender-part-1-w...
He later admitted at the 2013 Blender Conference there were a lot of problems with his proposal and that the way he had gone about it wasn't that great either:
https://www.blenderguru.com/articles/improving-blenders-ui-t...
Not completely unlike the grandparent poster, which is presumably why he got downvoted.
There's even a three-part article (2013) from Andrew Kramer of Blender Guru, describing the issues and with some suggestions for trying to fix them. Luckily, Blender has made progress since then, and I'm sure we'll continue to see a great piece of software get even more consistent and clear in the future. Note: this doesn't mean dumbing the software down.