No matter how often i check blenderdocs, never ocne, and i do mean never once did it help me, their shown pictures for help are so terribly outdated it doesnt even look remotely like current blender anymore.
And when im lucky enough to find something i actually need, the advice is just plainwrong (most recently the knife tool and cut-through, literally wrong information)
Well, that might partly be the result of Blenderfoundation every once in a blue m8on decide that “now is a good time to completely overhaul the interface”. Blender 2.6, I think when they started to put effort in UI, but after that the UI alone has been overhauled 3 to 4 times, I believe. And people who have lived trough all those UI overhauls (let alone introducing, and scrapping renderes that need to be worked differently each) have jist accepted to adapt “from the olden times”, and never bother to update the tutprials, sine they’ll be obsolete the next time Blender UI is overhauled (for better or worse).
i’ve been using blender since 2.8, because of 2.8, and i can’t see much of a difference especially layout-wise from 2.8
I was one before you at 2.79 and to say the change was jarring was an understatement.
For sure for the best tho it looked out of windows xp
Hey man just a heads up - I’m not 100% on the blender docs themselves but generally for open source you’re able to contribute and fix issues if you spot them and help out your fellow blender users. Could be worth looking in to if you feel strongly about this and aware where they need fixing :D
The amount of fixing blenderdocs and general advice needs far outweights must willingness, patience hell, even ability to do so
I generally don’t get much if any satisfaction from such contributions anyway, if once in a bluemoon it isnt rejected that is
Add the fact that it’s not a paid job and you have the answer to your question.
I’ve been teaching myself blender for the past several months so I feel your pain
You just gotta push past the frustration til you hit a point where things start feeling comfortable
Tbh once I started understanding more 3d workflow/concepts in general, blender became easier to reason with
Been at it for over a year, never has been easier or more understandable for me
I personnaly learned blender almost solely by reading the doc thoroughly, it rarely presented any problem to me and rhe doc is my go to when I have an issue.
How old is your version of blender? I can barely find anything with how different the docs look
you sure you’re looking at the right docs? https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/ this seems pretty up to date to me
Yes, the documentation is not very good. Tutorials and forums are better learning resources.
