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Why are blender docs and related advice either horrendously outdated or plain wrong? (sh.itjust.works)
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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i check blenderdocs, never ocne, and i do mean never once did it help me, their shown pictures for help are so terribly outdated it doesnt even look remotely like current blender anymore.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)

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[–] joshfaulkner 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey, @Mandy. I know you gave the example of the knife tool and cut-through, and in another response, you said you were struggling with everything, but can you be more specific about what is wrong or outdated? I know that every new version may tweak the settings/visuals a little bit, but the manual text is usually up-to-date.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks but im so done with blenderdocs I don't even pen their link anymore if it appears, it was wrong or outdated that often

And text only really doesn't mean when it says "go there and click that" without properly telling us where that is, if it tells us to.begin with

[–] joshfaulkner 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

while i do appreciate a well made text based tutorial, i just cant say that for the blenderdocs in current year. im not joking when i said i never once had the blenderdocs help, not once was i able to find correct info even on the page i wanted to be.

While i thank you, genuinely for help, but just sending me to the docs gives me archwiki ptsd (it may not be wrong, but archwiki is written like you need a fucking linguistic degree soo i end up with basically the same problem)

So if that is still okay with you, i might take you help for help.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

got another example from literally just now: trying to set up a toon shader, doesnt work as expected (to be fair that ones on me for thinking it should be easy) way too complicated when actually set up as instructed: doesnt look like advertised, doesnt even work as several pictures and videos have shown

shit like this, constantly, is why it feel that im constantly being surrounded by wall with no way out, its ALWAYS the same, its no wonder barely anybody does 3d work