7/2/2023 0 Comments Blender screencast keys![]() He was a brilliant man but should not have been teaching undergraduate calculus. Then five minutes before that class was over he would turn around and say: “Thus is should be intuitively obvious to even the casual observer” We (the students in the class) were just sitting there glassy eyed because he lost us 3 minutes into the lecture. He would just write for 40 minutes and would not take questions. He would come into the classroom and turn his back on the students and start writing formulas and proofs on the board. It reminds me of a Differential Equations professor that I had in college. But what good is that addon if someone totally unfamiliar with it can not get it to do what the author says it can do? That frustrates me so much. Well the creator of the addon naturally knows how to use the addon because they wrote it. They just assume that since they can use it that anyone can use it. If something doesn’t look or behave like it does in your setup, RTFM first, ask questions later.ĪrtAvenue: Not only tutorial makers but addon makers that post their addon with little or no instructions on how to use it.If you’re going to post tips for tutorial makers, how about tips for tutorial watchers? I’m not resetting my preferences just to record a 2-minute clip on “how to model that spiffing thing”. Locking anyone to a particular setup directly contradicts that goal. The program strives to be customizable for a reason. 3, or rather, to the sub-point of using default setup I can also say “No”, and a thousand times more “No”. ![]() You can’t expect every tutorial maker out there to do kindergarten.Īnd, to the point No. If after hearing that someone doesn’t understand it, they’re watching a wrong tutorial. In that case, a good teacher would explicitly explain what key they’re pressing and why, and if there’s a UI hint for that key, point it out.īut remember, it’s not “S, X, 0, Enter”, it’s “Scale zero times on X axis”. There are cases of hard-coded keys to which there’s no alternative. Would you also suggest everyone to just use the ‘Blender’ one? That will never work. ![]() Practiced users will assign their own keys to things they use the most, and it’s up to them to figure out what they are. Keys are preference, and should be a preference. Instead of teaching what keys to mash, teacher should show what tools to use and where to find them. That add-on should whither and die (no offense to its makers, it may have served a purpose once, but that purpose is now long dead). But I think that these three simple things would go a LONG way toward lessening the reputation that blender had that it is hard to learn or has a steep learning curve A LOT of people are going to be quite upset with me. Ok I know some people are going to disagree with me. If you just use the standard “out of the box” blender version you will get less questions of the type “My screen does not look like that.” Just because you like a theme or screen setup does not mean everyone does. AND PLEASE NO DEV versions or special builds. The version without screen adjustments or themes or you favorite interface addons or colors. Use the standard Blender Foundation Latest Stable version of blender when you do your video tutorial. So we just ASSUME that everyone that uses Blender knows how to do those things. But those of us that know blender so well just do things automatically without thinking of it. The screencast keys mentioned above will show the viewer a lot so they will not get frustrated. ![]() Just because you know how to do something in blender does not mean that your viewer knows how to do it. It’s like they think the viewer can read their mind. This addon had been part of blender for years now and it still amazes me how many people post video tutorials and just naturally assume that the viewer can see what keys they are pressing or what mouse button they are clicking. These are three pieces of advice that I think are most important for a tutorial maker… Just as an aside I have been using blender for 18 years now.
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