Comments on: The blender primer

By: Renaldo Nisonger

Renaldo Nisonger — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:21:00 +0000

Is likely to come back again taking you rss feeds also, Thanks.

By: MCarver

MCarver — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:33:30 +0000

Thanks for this video! After struggling through the Blender manuals and getting only more confused by them, this really cut to the chase for me! Very helpful and I love that I can hear and watch at the same time. Looking forward to following more of your Blender tuts. Thanks so much for giving of your time for this.

By: Gaia

Gaia — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:03:12 +0000

Where did i say that holding the middle mouse button down would PAN ? Middle mouse button alone lets my camera-view rotate around the object … But sure you are right that pressing down SHIFT plus middle mouse button will do panning!

BTW: you can change that in the user preferences window…

By: oceanoz ivory

oceanoz ivory — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:04:45 +0000

If holding the Middle Mouse Button to pan all sides of your object does not work, try holding the Shift key down while holding the Middle Mouse Button down, and drag the mouse.

By: Ado

Ado — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:38:52 +0000

Thank you Gaia for your quick reply….unfortunately I had it set to rotate as default=/ I checked it again as you said but it is all set and it does not rotate. Maybe it has to do with an error my program shows when I open it…..I get a little black window in which is written:

Compiled with Python version 2.6.2
‘import site’ failed; use -v for traceback
Checking for installed Python….no installed Python found.
Only built-in modules are available. Some scripts may not run.
Continuing happily

grrrrrr……

By: Gaia

Gaia — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:46:31 +0000

I suspect you have changed the blender default settings somehow. Can you please check the user preferences menu:

- Open the user preferences (or drag the “I” window down to see its content)
- Under “View&Controls” check what function is assigned to the middle mouse button : You will see that it can be set to “Rotate View” or “Pan View”. Ensure that it is set to “Rotate view” and go ahead with the tutorial.

If it still does not work as expected, please check that your mouse is not broken and correctly installed. I can ensure you that what the tutorial says is absolutely correct as long as you use blender’s default settings. And i use this mode every day and hour i am sitting in front of blender. It works as explained.

By: Ado

Ado — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:50:43 +0000

For some reason the part where you have to hold your middle mousebutton to see the 3d from every side…does not work for me……can anyone tell me how I do that? Again…. the explenation in this tutorial, is not the right way it seems….

By: Theseus

Theseus — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:31:57 +0000

The tutorial is great. I had no problem with the voice. I was a little sketchy in its emphasis at times, but perfectly understandable.

I would skip the whole, ‘Blender is fully intuitive’ intro. It is not intuitive in the least, in fact this is the only software I’ve ever needed the tutorial for! Also, you might want to add a ‘How to save your creation’ part at the end of the first tutorial. The Save menu is ……… well………….Blender-esque.

But I am very thankful for these tutorials. I hope to start using Blender, now that the code has been cracked.

By: DMom2K Darwin

DMom2K Darwin — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 17:06:09 +0000

Wonderful tutorials! I did not find them hard to understand at all and I really appreciate that you include the text to refer to as well. The first tutorial I used was on another site (hadn’t found these yet) and I got an idea of what I could do with Blender. I wish I had seen this tutorial first – it gives a good basic overview and getting a look at the other tutorials offered here, I can see so many possibilites now! Thanks again for this.

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Nachhilfe für Blender-Nutzer | Cyberwelten — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:09:43 +0000

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By: john Bandaru

john Bandaru — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:56:08 +0000

just installed blender2.4.7 and got scared looking at the UI……felt like i entered an alien space craft or something similar…..this video helps a lot . though the voice quality is to be improved on. The video is nice and engaging and informative.

thanks a lot.

By: Darkmesh

Darkmesh — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:10:31 +0000

Hmm,

I would love to see a clothing baking tutorial done with blender including shiny textures …

is this possible?

By: Nerolus

Nerolus — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:57:52 +0000

I can understand the voices just fine! Not sure where people are having problems understanding it.

Great tutorials, these have helped me out a whole lot!

By: Dean

Dean — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:17:02 +0000

Maybe you can try using a natural speech engine.

By: Hussayn

Hussayn — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:52:56 +0000

@JerrySmith: Concerning the speach processor technology, we find highly differing opinions about the quality. Some people tell us, they can understand without any difficulties, other telll us, they don’t understand a single word.

It may be a matter of getting used to the voice and the more your hear it, the better you understand it. So meanwhile, we possibly are highly biased to a certain extent.

So please can you give us a couple of examples, where the voice fails for you personally? The best would be, you tell us, what you think, you hear.
The full transcription is published above, so you could directly refer to it, if you like. So we can better find out, what exactly makes the problems.

And if you know about any other speach software, which gives better results, we would happily take a look at it. We are currently don’t know anything better.

I personally would have favored to use a british accented voice. But the machinimatrix team favorised the now used voice.

By: JerrySmith

JerrySmith — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:51:16 +0000

While a nice idea in theory, the speech software you’re using for this video is absolutely terrible. Many parts impossible to understand and it detracts from the lesson itself.