Frustrating when I accidently switch something into another mode and cant figure out what the hell I did or how to get back to the state I am familiar with.
It is amazing that it is free and open source though, it feels like a gift so I dont get too tilted when I get frustrated.
There are well made OSS UIs and there are kludgey, unplanned OSS UIs. Blender is in the latter along with GIMP.
Gimp is only kludgey if you’re expecting it to respond exactly like Photoshop.
There have been a few times where I’ll sit down and say, “today will finally be the day I learn blender”
Then I open Fusion 360 or OnShape or TonkerCad
I made a donut and it took me like 13 effing hours lmao
Okay speed racer no need to show off
Yeah this should have been done in a proper CAD software but fuck it, i love blender. I call it the “PCB squeezer 8000” and that is all the explanation i can give.
with the utmost respect, who hurt you?
Damn, from what I can tell, that looks pretty good. How did you do that?
The black lines in the middle are part of an imported pcb layout converted to curves with a .dxf importer plugin. Parts of those i used to knife project the shapes onto a plane to create cutouts. Then i extruded the planes and added pin holes afterwards. So far its only been 3D printed for testing but eventually it will be machined out of metal to be used to press out small flexible PCBs from a sheet.
🤣 Her face on the monitor says it all
It’s hard as shit to learn, but once you learn enough you start to feel like a god capable of creating shapes at will.
That’s as far as I’ve gotten. I did the donut tutorial, and then started playing with all the features I used during that tutorial, and now I can make shapes pretty good.
In a decade I might actually make something cool if I keep learning regularly.
Pretty good. I always dread making textures/materials and yet another project sits untouched for weeks. (Any tips welcome)
I got into vertex shading in lieu of doing anything UV-coordinate related.
For reference, that’s what Mario Sunshine used to fake most of the game’s shadows, and the original Homeworld used them to create the entire skybox back when 3d-dedicated hardware wasn’t too common.
Shork
Don’t you dare @sharkfucker420 His name is Stefan and he is my roommate.
This is relevant to their struggle.
The cables seem to have to few polygons and the monitor stand has a shape that’s obviously created by subtracting two cylinder and a box from a bigger cylinder. Other than that, the wall and table texture and lighting looks realistic.
Is the reflection modeled or just a flat image? the fan looks 3D, but the face looks cut out.spoiler
The Blender Guru doughnut tutorial is the winning starting tutorial IMHO.
EDIT: The one Ludrol linked to elsewhere in the comments.
I did this things like 3-5x
In version 2.49!!! booya!
And watched a ton of youtube stuff.
Mostly fun actually, because I didn’t really “need” to know anything, I just browsed around tried stuff.
Sometimes frustrating, sometimes fun, but it really depends on what I’m doing and if there are any tutorials available. Retopology has never been a good time but I do enjoy messing around with shaders.
#ItGetsBetter
Find a good beginner course on Udemy or one of the longer video series on YouTube.
https://www.udemy.com/course/blender-environments/
This was my first course. Got it on sale for 15$
You really don’t need to pay a dime to learn Blender. There are so many tutorials out there on just about everything it’s insane.
Yes but the free classes don’t have as much structure or often don’t come with supplemental learning materials like say assets or finished project files. Some classes come with active support from the teacher who will answer your questions if you are stick on a particular section. The comments on a YouTube video aren’t always as helpful.
YouTube is great for learning specific features and techniques, but I think taking one of the bigger classes is a great starting point for a complete beginner who is ready to do more than just the donut tutorial.
There is one
ringdonut to rule them allhttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjEaoINr3zgEPv5y--4MKpciLaoQYZB1Z
I thought this was a subtle joke - the letters under the monitor almost spell “blender” so it seemed like a clever subversion of your expectations.
However, I’ve never used Blender, so my new theory after reading the comments is that it’s just hard.
It has a learning curve but I don’t think it’s that bad once you learn it.
