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You must be familiar with the "Tip of the day" that appears on many softwares. It's very good for beginner.
Think about: If someone has just downloaded Blender and it's the first time he open Blender. He does some mouse clicks on the 3D View area, the cube object moved. He doesn't understand what's the rectangle mean. He tries to find some icons like rendering, make sphere, etc to figure out what Blender can do. He finds no icons, so he closes Blender and uninstalls it.
I think many people will do the same when he first time using Blender. At least I'm the one. :D
It's the good idea if Blender comes with "Tip of the day" feature that will show very simple tutorial at beginning. And it's has been planed so the tips will become more and more advanced.
It should be configureable to turn it on/off/reset. And the tips are categorize in Basic, Intermediate, Modeling, Rendering, Animation, Scripting so you can choose which item to disabled/enabled.
Also it will be cool it you can download new tips to add in to the Tip Library. Maybe someday you can write your own tutorial, save it as Blender Tips format, post it and download by the others.
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lonewolfarcher wrote on the 15 Apr 08 at 22:15
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You are not alone in your first time experience of blender Handoko:-)
I too didn't understand what the rectangle was. Nor was I able to do anything useful at all with blender that first time. And it took a while before I tried again.
In particular I think it would be useful with a small information window within the 3D window, which is shown the first time one starts up blender (with a check box saying "Don't show this again"). Within the window there would be just some very very basic tips. How to rotate the view, G for grab, S for scale, R for rotate, space to get a menu of objects and tab to switch between object mode and edit mode. Maybe a few more of those basic features.
One might respond to this suggestion: "Ah - but you could just read the manual - or the 'Getting started with blender'- pdf" or some such.
But the thing is that I, like many, like to dive right in and see how far I can come. A small information window, which I imagine is fantastically simple for developers to set up, would hardly dissuade anyone from starting to use blender and could be quite helpful for many.
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scrag_10 wrote on the 16 Apr 08 at 00:10
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There are tool tips if you hover the mouse over a button, anyohter kind of tip would be ridiculously large and wouldn't work well with a tip of the day format, and if there were a tip of the day thing, everyone would read them in one day.
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Handoko wrote on the 16 Apr 08 at 11:15
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Maybe you're right scrag_10. But I don't think all person will read them all in once. And if they really do it, it's good because he/she has learned lots of tips in just one day.
Many people say Blender is hard learned/used. I think Blender is powerful and can be very easy to use if you've mastered it, but not for a beginner. So let we make it easy to learn (for beginner), of course there should have option to turn off such learning feature after you've mastered them.
Also, I think the bundled tips accompanied with Blender package need just be very simple just like lonewolfarcher said. Something like how to navigate the screen, do rendering and some object creation. So it won't scare the first time user like me :). And the last tip will say you could download more advanced tips via .... sites.
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caveman wrote on the 9 Jul 08 at 08:58
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While this would be useful for beginning with blender, I would like it more for learning the little things added inbetween releases and unknown shortcuts that you hardly ever need, but are very useful.
scrag_10 "everyone would read them in one day" Well, maybe, but it would at least get beginners to learn how to use blender before ranting about it's weird interface. but probably not if it contained more advanced tips. Not everyone has that sort of time.
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