Re:The Grove 8 – Growing Trees in Blender
by soulofmischief on Monday October 21, 2019 @08:03AM
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doesn't provide much in terms of discoverability
Space or Shift-Space or whatever the new 2.8 default shortcut is opens up an action menu with every possible action available to you and a search bar to explore them.
Actually, with this feature Blender surpasses most other creative suites in terms of discoverability. Perhaps what you are really looking for is a tutorial? They have those, too.
Yeah, back when 2.5 was new i was annoyed that space changed from showing the popup menu in 3D view to showing that action search list but this annoyance quickly went away when i realized how faster it was to find new stuff with it.
Re:The Grove 8 – Growing Trees in Blender
by soulofmischief on Monday October 21, 2019 @10:33PM
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Shift+A makes sense for the new default 3D menu though, it's Shift+A(dd)
Re:The Grove 8 – Growing Trees in Blender
by Crinus on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @07:20AM
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IIRC the pre-2.5 menu wasn't just for adding stuff (though it was its most common use).
Re:The Grove 8 – Growing Trees in Blender
by iamcreasy on Monday October 21, 2019 @01:03AM
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The only thing that I need to keep track of is that the idea of no-overlapping windows. The hotkeys behaves differently depending on which windows your mouse is on. Here is a example on the case: C on 3d windows trigger circle select tool, but C on the outliner create a new collection.
But this behavior has exception. Sometimes some keys have global effect. For example, Shift Space always runs the animation.
What other things you find tricky in Blender?
Re:The Grove 8 – Growing Trees in Blender
by truckerbill on Monday October 21, 2019 @04:48AM
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One thing I've run into most recently : working with materials is a pain.
There's no easy list that you can delete them in a classic-UX way (that I can find). Copying and pasting/duplicating ends up creating large numbers of identical materials and there was no immediately obvious way to prevent this. The interface for creating shared material parameters is unintuitive compared to something like Unreal.
Re:The Grove 8 – Growing Trees in Blender
by microcolonel on Monday October 21, 2019 @08:02AM
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You can accomplish it in the Outliner, by searching for "Material". There are other ways, though I guess they could do with some sort of purpose-built view that only exists to list and show materials.
It's not that the apps I already know have an especially good UX or that Blender is especially bad - it's just that Blender makes few concessions to existing conventions and doesn't provide much in terms of discoverability.
2.8 is definitely a step in the right direction but lets not get ahead of ourselves in praising it as suddenly becoming a paragon of usability.