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Full of hyperbole. It's a different UI and you have to learn it. It's extremely self-consistent. Try putting a neophyte in front of ZBrush and they'd say the

Full of hyperbole. It's a different UI and you have to learn it. It's extremely self-consistent. Try putting a neophyte in front of ZBrush and they'd say the same thing but tons of people adapt and use it.

jbmorgado 10y ago
For the sake of me, after trying for hours I still couldn't understand how to do something as simple as put 2 cubes in a group and move them or resize them together in Blender and keep their dimensions with numbers that made the minimum sense while maintaining the 2 as different objects (i.e for texturing purposes). Seriously, it's just that non intuitive. In the beginning I thought it was perhaps because I was used to C4D, but after that episode, I realised some things in blender simple don't make sense for someone that thinks in objects the mathematical way. On a side note, I started 3D with POV-Ray many years ago, and, although not having a UI, at least the text description of the scenes was perfectly intuitive... I just can't reach that point with Blender.
- evincarofautumn 10y ago
  Part of the confusion might be that a “group” in Blender is not like in other applications, and should probably have been called something else—a “grouped selection”, say. In Blender terms, you probably wanted to create a “parent” (typically an empty) for your objects.
- obsurveyor 10y ago
  Sounds like just typical struggle with learning terms from a new software. You're looking for Parenting in blender it sounds like, much like the grouping you're talking about. How to do what you wanted: Shift-A Cube Shift-A Cube G to move second cube(assuming you don't want them stacked) Shift right click to select other cube Ctrl+P select Object to parent one to the other(you would use Keep Transform if you wanted to keep them together but move/scale/rotate separate) Look in the Scene graph on the right, they're still separate objects so you can assign different materials to their faces, unwrap, un-parent them with Alt+P, whatever. If you wanted to merge the geometry, you'd use Ctrl+J to join them.
- stan_rogers 10y ago
  The last really intuitive, approachable GUI, I think, was in trueSpace 3D (the "classic" interface that went back to Caligari on the Amiga; they added an awkward "just like the other guys" interface to later versions, and the gratis abandonware version only has that awkward interface). It's really a pity they couldn't keep up with the materials and render engines when it mattered; by the time they caught up with everyone else, the product's reputation as something that had gone from amazing (on relatively primitive machines) to "just a toy" was pretty much sealed, and there was no way back into the game.

jbmorgado 10y ago

For the sake of me, after trying for hours I still couldn't understand how to do something as simple as put 2 cubes in a group and move them or resize them together in Blender and keep their dimensions with numbers that made the minimum sense while maintaining the 2 as different objects (i.e for texturing purposes). Seriously, it's just that non intuitive. In the beginning I thought it was perhaps because I was used to C4D, but after that episode, I realised some things in blender simple don't make sense for someone that thinks in objects the mathematical way. On a side note, I started 3D with POV-Ray many years ago, and, although not having a UI, at least the text description of the scenes was perfectly intuitive... I just can't reach that point with Blender.

evincarofautumn 10y ago
Part of the confusion might be that a “group” in Blender is not like in other applications, and should probably have been called something else—a “grouped selection”, say. In Blender terms, you probably wanted to create a “parent” (typically an empty) for your objects.
obsurveyor 10y ago
Sounds like just typical struggle with learning terms from a new software. You're looking for Parenting in blender it sounds like, much like the grouping you're talking about. How to do what you wanted: Shift-A Cube Shift-A Cube G to move second cube(assuming you don't want them stacked) Shift right click to select other cube Ctrl+P select Object to parent one to the other(you would use Keep Transform if you wanted to keep them together but move/scale/rotate separate) Look in the Scene graph on the right, they're still separate objects so you can assign different materials to their faces, unwrap, un-parent them with Alt+P, whatever. If you wanted to merge the geometry, you'd use Ctrl+J to join them.
stan_rogers 10y ago
The last really intuitive, approachable GUI, I think, was in trueSpace 3D (the "classic" interface that went back to Caligari on the Amiga; they added an awkward "just like the other guys" interface to later versions, and the gratis abandonware version only has that awkward interface). It's really a pity they couldn't keep up with the materials and render engines when it mattered; by the time they caught up with everyone else, the product's reputation as something that had gone from amazing (on relatively primitive machines) to "just a toy" was pretty much sealed, and there was no way back into the game.