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This release is a pretty significant UI overhaul, as was 2.6 from memory but that was a good few years back. Probably worth giving it another shot with 2.8!

pcurve 7y ago
Awesome. I tried it about 18 months ago do I will definitely give it another go!
- wlesieutre 7y ago
  One major change in 2.8 is that it defaults to left-click for selection. At least from my experience, right-click selection was the big thing that made Blender feel very alien to pick up. You could change it before, but defaults matter a lot for new users. EDIT: I just tested it and I might be misinformed on this. Either it's still RMB selection or I have an old config that it loaded. EDIT2: Load factory settings put me on LBM select. Yay!
  - pcurve 7y ago
    I'm liking the new UI a lot better. The old one reminded me of Lightwave 3d, which I struggled with.
Topgamer7 7y ago
You were close, pretty sure it was 2.5
Causality1 7y ago
That in particular was my issue when I gave up learning to use Blender. There are tons and tons of tutorials, but Blender hits a big "randomize" button for its UI every time it updates. Nothing is ever where the tutorials tell you to find it. It likely isn't even grouped under the same menu heading anymore.
- wlesieutre 7y ago
  Stick to tutorials from the same 2.x line and there aren't many UI changes. They've had betas and release candidates for 2.8 for a while now, so there's already a pretty good body of tutorials available. Outdated tutorials aren't totally useless, since they'll still give you an idea of how to approach a modeling problem. But the UI won't match what you're working in, so I certainly wouldn't recommend them for trying to learn the software.
  - TylerE 7y ago
    There should be a lot of great tutorial content coming out now/soon. I know a lot of the big training vendors (e.g. cgcookie) have basically been building for 2.8...lots of new courses and old stuff getting redone and updated.
  - desi_ninja 7y ago
    my sentiments exactly. once you know how to solve a problem, you can Google newer UI equivalent of those tricks.

pcurve 7y ago

Awesome. I tried it about 18 months ago do I will definitely give it another go!

wlesieutre 7y ago
One major change in 2.8 is that it defaults to left-click for selection. At least from my experience, right-click selection was the big thing that made Blender feel very alien to pick up. You could change it before, but defaults matter a lot for new users. EDIT: I just tested it and I might be misinformed on this. Either it's still RMB selection or I have an old config that it loaded. EDIT2: Load factory settings put me on LBM select. Yay!
- pcurve 7y ago
  I'm liking the new UI a lot better. The old one reminded me of Lightwave 3d, which I struggled with.

Topgamer7 7y ago

You were close, pretty sure it was 2.5

Causality1 7y ago

That in particular was my issue when I gave up learning to use Blender. There are tons and tons of tutorials, but Blender hits a big "randomize" button for its UI every time it updates. Nothing is ever where the tutorials tell you to find it. It likely isn't even grouped under the same menu heading anymore.

wlesieutre 7y ago
Stick to tutorials from the same 2.x line and there aren't many UI changes. They've had betas and release candidates for 2.8 for a while now, so there's already a pretty good body of tutorials available. Outdated tutorials aren't totally useless, since they'll still give you an idea of how to approach a modeling problem. But the UI won't match what you're working in, so I certainly wouldn't recommend them for trying to learn the software.
- TylerE 7y ago
  There should be a lot of great tutorial content coming out now/soon. I know a lot of the big training vendors (e.g. cgcookie) have basically been building for 2.8...lots of new courses and old stuff getting redone and updated.
- desi_ninja 7y ago
  my sentiments exactly. once you know how to solve a problem, you can Google newer UI equivalent of those tricks.