No matter how often i check blenderdocs, never ocne, and i do mean never once did it help me, their shown pictures for help are so terribly outdated it doesnt even look remotely like current blender anymore.

And when im lucky enough to find something i actually need, the advice is just plainwrong (most recently the knife tool and cut-through, literally wrong information)

    • joshfaulkner@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’m sorry you had that experience. When I started really learning Blender (back in the 2.37ish days), there weren’t video tutorials for everything. But the piece of advice that really helped from the resources that were available (shout-out to Blender 3D: Noob to Pro) was to read the manual in its entirety.

      I’m not sure how practical that is nowadays, but the Blender 3D: Noob to Pro eBook still pushes a “Know before making” approach. I hang out on the Blenderartists Support forum and frequently point people to the relevant manual page for whatever feature they are stumped by or whichever limitation is explained on the Cycles vs. Eevee page, etc. I’m willing to offer you one-on-one help if you’d like, but I do my best to take a “teach a man to fish” approach that requires effort on the other end as well. DM me if you wanna chat, or post in the Blenderartists Support forum and I’ll jump in there.