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🧵 blendlet beginners, post your gripes

Anonymous at Sat, 14 Aug 2021 20:23:04 UTC No. 844254

>have to switch each object from flat to smooth. also, using a modifier to smooth is a bad, stupid practice that creates unoptimized geometry. no wonder why every indie game has all objects as either flat shaded or 1 million polys.
>scaling and moving in 3d space is incredibly fucking stupid and doesn't work, the handles should be enabled by default. and no, i'm not going to hold two different keys down.
>have to press P then loose parts when adding a new object to separate it from everything else
>have to press shift a to add a primitive instead of just having a menu. wot.
>too many menus. this one is just kind of a general complaint, but there is too much bullshit to sift through to find what i want.
i'd much prefer to use modo, but all the good plugins are on blender and this is the hell i must live in. maybe i'm doing it wrong for some of these but i'm trying very hard to learn and have many post its on my monitor with about two dozen hot keys i need to do the most basic shit. maybe i'm just getting old but this would be very off putting to me if i were trying to learn 3d.

Anonymous at Sat, 14 Aug 2021 20:30:48 UTC No. 844256

>>844254
>i'd much prefer to use modo
oh, fellow modo chad
yes, default blender is completely fucking retarded and first thing you should do is remap everything

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Anonymous at Sat, 14 Aug 2021 20:51:14 UTC No. 844264

>>844254
right click, shade smooth
change the settings then, you don't need to hold 2 keys down though anyway
literally what, are you adding primitives while being tabbed into edit mode for one of the objects? tab out, then add the geometry...
there's an add menu right here
well I'm having the same issue with max

Anonymous at Sat, 14 Aug 2021 21:20:22 UTC No. 844272

>>844264
thanks anon. the adding primitives thing -- i was adding two cylinders and they wouldn't go in the same group, but i added a torus and it added to a separate group. i swear i was in edit mode for both but maybe i'm retarded

Anonymous at Sun, 15 Aug 2021 04:01:46 UTC No. 844299

>post your gripes
Biggest gripe I have is not being able to apply modifiers while an object has shape keys, this pisses me off so goddamn much. It FORCES me to cross the "point of no return" with a model. I'm effectively not allowed to make further changes to the model if I want to create shapekeys because I have to apply all of the modifiers first.

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Anonymous at Sun, 15 Aug 2021 04:43:59 UTC No. 844300

>>844254
the post made me nostalgic. For being a beginner in the software
>painful acceptance followed by blind perseverance
Its been a long while since I've encountered this
I think that means it is time to find a program I can get frustrated at. Because lately, the spark has dimmed a little- I miss the frustrations and the battles. Grappling with it all is half the fun. Popsicle sticks and glue