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• AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They massively changed the UI in 2019, in version 2.8. Hasn’t changed much since then though.

  If you remember Blender having a bad-looking light grey UI and no support for multiple workspaces, that’s the old version.

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• altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I mean I’m coming from Mary’s 3 and Max, I taught myself blender last year, UI seemed pretty nice.

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• RockHornet@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It WAS shit. Now it’s the best UI (and UX) of all 3D software.

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  • ilmagico@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I tried learning it some time ago and I never cussed so much in my life… maybe I’ll just get the hang of it eventually, but let’s just say, first impression on the UI is not good.

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    • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Being intimidated and lost is completely normal given that it looks like this, and there’s probably not a single person on the world to have ever used all of Blender’s features.

      Watch the whole Blender 2.8 fundamentals playlist, things get way easier once you know what to ignore and what UI conventions blender uses as well have a rough overview of the feature set – because that allows you to ignore even more stuff. Then figure out what you want to do, figure out a workflow, customise the UI to make that particular thing convenient (remapping a couple of keys when you need something often, leave other things you need twice a day in the menus, etc), and bob’s your uncle.

      Last, but not least: Unless you come from another 3d program and absolutely can’t be bothered to re-train your muscle memory use right-click select. Your index finger is going to thank you, it’s also a better UI convention in general as it leads to way fewer misclicks (selecting instead of manipulating or the other way around). Personally, I use space bar for the context menu (the default is play video which I rarely use, and if then shift+space isn’t exactly awkward). There’s also plenty of extensions focussed on particular workflows, e.g. F2 is very common if you do mesh editing, I also use machin3tools, especially for mode switching.

      All major general-purpose 3d packages have a feature set so large that it can’t possibly fit onto keybindings, and you can’t pick them up like picking up a word processor. At the same time it’s professional software used by professionals who want to be fast and efficient, so the optimal UI isn’t “intuitive” (as in: dumbed down) but flexible and customisable. Blender’s defaults aren’t bad for some basic work but ultimately you will find them lacking, that’s not because the defaults are bad but because they are a compromise between 10000 ways to use the program. Ask three blender users how they use blender and you’ll get fifteen answers.

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      • ilmagico@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Thanks for the pointers!

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• Hadriscus@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There have in fact been massive improvements over the last few years

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• whereisk@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Most certainly have been. Worth another look.

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  • Hazdaz@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I might have to one of these days, but man do I doubt it’s UI is usable after being such hot garbage over so many years. Such a shame too because fuck everything about Autodesk and I know Blender has some incredibly powerful tools.

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    • aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t think anyone would be able to comprehend how much the UI has improved without seeing it themselves. Please take a look sooner than later.

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    • snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Blender used to be basically unusable for me, the UI made no sense and attempting to use it after learning 3d through maya and 3ds it just made no sense. Then they made it good, I spent a few weeks learning it a few years ago and it’s great now. What you’re describing is exactly what they went and did

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    • Mdotaut801@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So you’re not gonna try it like everyone is telling you to. I have no idea what they’re talking about because I don’t use blender but uh…me thinks you should try it instead of being stubborn and not. Seems kinda dumb.

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    • dunestorm@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Go and troll somewhere else, it’s clear you won’t change your opinion even though you’re wrong.

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• okamiueru@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The… UI in blender is really good. Have you used any other equivalent software or know how complicated it is?

  It’s not “good but it’s a hard problem to solve”. It is more “great and it’s a hard problem to solve”

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• Rentlar@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Blender 2.79 and earlier was super-unintuitive. 2.8 gave it a fresh coat of paint it’s easier and more featureful with each version!

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• OtakuAltair@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The intuitive UI is the best part of Blender for me so that’s weird

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  • sergih@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    it is, I think he’s talking about the old ui

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• Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That was Blender 2.9, and we’re on 3.6! It has gotten fairly good, I love it.

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