Re: Re: Starting out

On 26 Dec 2005, at 23:25, Robert wrote:

> Well congratulations on finding one of the best open source programs
> in the world. I still feel that way even though like you I feel its
> frustrating at  times.
>
> I have been using blender for 5 years now and I still feel like a
> newbie. Part of the problem (my opinion only) is its european origin.
> Many of the top programmers of blender and of plugins for blender are
> not native english speakers. What I find most difficult is trying to
> read some of the documentation and trying not to understand the
> program but to understand what the author of the document/tutorial is
> saying.
>
> The other part of that is that this program is inherently visual.
> Some people forget that when you are explaining things in words on a
> page or on the net that you need to paint a picture of with words.
>
> I come from a generation where we did not have computers or the
> internet readily availible. So we HAD to be able to describe and
> write clearly and distinctly.
>
> Back to your original question. I would help to know which version of
> blender you are using and for what operating system. The user
> interface changed significantly from 2.25 to 2.3. You might be
> reading tutorials or documentation from the older version.

Buy the Blender 2.3 Guide

http://www.blender3d.org/e-shop/default.php?cPath=21

Peter

> --- In [email protected], "lewistheanalyst"
> <lewistheanalyst@y...> wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone, I come from a huge programming/networking background
>> (VB6, VB.Net, some JAVA, and tons of VBA as well as VBScript).  I
>> found out about Blender while I was looking for some RPM's for my
>> Linux machine.  I thought it was cool because it was open source.  I
>> have always wanted to learn how to do stuff like this but I've
> always
>> been intimidated.
>>
>> I have to admit I'm having a tough time at it.  I tried to work
>> through some of the examples and the buttons/menus the tutorial says
>> to use either aren't there or turn out differently than what they
> say
>> it should.  Is there somewhere I can go just to learn how to make a
>> cup or table or something simple to start out with?
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated and again I'm glad to have found this
> group.

I found this group only a few days ago even though I've been playing  
with Blender since it was first released, version 1.6 I think.

Peter





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