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Cursor + blender-mcp are starting to make the UX easier https://github.com/ahujasid/blender-mcp https://github.com/ahujasid/blender-mcp Still has a ways to go,

Cursor + blender-mcp are starting to make the UX easier https://github.com/ahujasid/blender-mcp https://github.com/ahujasid/blender-mcp Still has a ways to go, but shows promise.

lionkor 2y ago
It does say a lot about a person's attention span and intelligence when they cannot figure out one of the cleanest UIs in software, with such a buttload of tutorials and guides.
- jampekka 2y ago
  Blender's UI has improved tremendously over the years, but I wouldn't call it one of the cleanest UI in software. It still has, for better or worse, quite idiosyncratic UI patterns (e.g. the panel juggling) and the underlying logic of e.g. objects, meshes, textures, materials, world, camera and renderer lining up is not very discoverable. I'm highly sceptical anyone could learn the Blender UI just by opening it and clicking around.
  - lionkor 2y ago
    No, you do tutorials, and plenty of them. Takes a few days, and then you're pretty familiar. I don't think AI is needed here at all.
    - jampekka 2y ago
      Specific features are hard to find from tutorials. LLMs don't replace tutorials, they augment documentation and stack exchange and such.
- IshKebab 2y ago
  Visually clean, sure. Intuitive? Hmm Blender was notorious for having a difficult to follow UI for years. They've improved it a lot over the last 10 years but I still wouldn't say it's easy to use. Way more stuff requires a tutorial than one would hope. Honestly the fact that you're doubting the usefulness of AI for this makes me suspect you haven't really used Blender in anger.
  - lionkor 2y ago
    I have used blender plenty, I don't think it's mega intuitive, but it's not "I need something else to do the thinking for me" level hard.
    - IshKebab 2y ago
      Nobody said "need". Obviously you can look up all the tutorials if you want to do it slowly. Think about it like fancy search. You can manually look through a document ("I don't need something else to do the searching for me"), or you can just use Ctrl+F.
      - lionkor 2y ago
        Yeah, or you can spin up a few GPU clusters, upload your entire document, and ask it. Blender has built-in search. That's not what this is.

Cursor + blender-mcp are starting to make the UX easier https://github.com/ahujasid/blender-mcp https://github.com/ahujasid/blender-mcp Still has a ways to go, but shows promise.

lionkor 2y ago

It does say a lot about a person's attention span and intelligence when they cannot figure out one of the cleanest UIs in software, with such a buttload of tutorials and guides.

jampekka 2y ago
Blender's UI has improved tremendously over the years, but I wouldn't call it one of the cleanest UI in software. It still has, for better or worse, quite idiosyncratic UI patterns (e.g. the panel juggling) and the underlying logic of e.g. objects, meshes, textures, materials, world, camera and renderer lining up is not very discoverable. I'm highly sceptical anyone could learn the Blender UI just by opening it and clicking around.
- lionkor 2y ago
  No, you do tutorials, and plenty of them. Takes a few days, and then you're pretty familiar. I don't think AI is needed here at all.
  - jampekka 2y ago
    Specific features are hard to find from tutorials. LLMs don't replace tutorials, they augment documentation and stack exchange and such.
IshKebab 2y ago
Visually clean, sure. Intuitive? Hmm Blender was notorious for having a difficult to follow UI for years. They've improved it a lot over the last 10 years but I still wouldn't say it's easy to use. Way more stuff requires a tutorial than one would hope. Honestly the fact that you're doubting the usefulness of AI for this makes me suspect you haven't really used Blender in anger.
- lionkor 2y ago
  I have used blender plenty, I don't think it's mega intuitive, but it's not "I need something else to do the thinking for me" level hard.
  - IshKebab 2y ago
    Nobody said "need". Obviously you can look up all the tutorials if you want to do it slowly. Think about it like fancy search. You can manually look through a document ("I don't need something else to do the searching for me"), or you can just use Ctrl+F.
    - lionkor 2y ago
      Yeah, or you can spin up a few GPU clusters, upload your entire document, and ask it. Blender has built-in search. That's not what this is.