Talk:Blender 3D: Noob to Pro

Terrific project, may I help at all?
Hi all. I am a complete n00b to 3d graphics and to Blender, so I'm a good test bunny for an instructional guide. I have zero background in 3d, animation, ray tracing, or any of the major features of Blender. However I am literate in several computer languages, have been a professional software engineer (retired now), and have copy-editing and technical writing skills. I am making my way through this wikibook with gratitude and pleasure and would like to contribute something to the project.

I took the liberty of adding a Question to the Dicing with Depth chapter, because I had seen other Questions added by other readers to previous chapters. Then I realised should have put this question into the Discussion page for that chapter instead; please bear with me while I learn the local etiquette, and apologies for the inappropriate editing. I will fix it asap.

I am very keen on both Blender and this tutorial. Please let me know how I might contribute; for example, if notes on differences between the UI as described here and the current 2.78 version would be useful, I will probably notice these differences and could report them to the authors and/or update text here and there.

Many thanks for this excellent resource

Tazling (discuss • contribs) 21:12, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

How much time is this course taking in average ?
I mean, do you have any data or experience to share, so I could get an approximation of the time needed to complete each unit, including the moments when you apply the tutorials ? It would be great, so I could build myself a curriculum, and break it on a Day by Day basis. It think I'm going to do this course, and share the time datas, but if anyone can help me, it would really accelerate my learning speed. Thanks

Update to v2.8x
It should be noted that v2.80 has significantly changed user interface, and default keyboard as well, which results most of the menus moved to somewhere else and the hotkeys changed. I can't quite try to update it since I cannot finish them all and it'd leave half of the book at v2.7 and the scattered pages on 2.8. Would be neat to tag every page which version it is suited for, and keep them updating gradually. Unfortunately I can't find time to do all of these. Maybe someone else. --Grin (discuss • contribs) 11:43, 10 January 2020 (UTC)


 * I'm hoping to get some updates made to the pages as soon as possible, but I'm held back a bit because I need to make a couple more edits before I can upload photos! Theonixie (discuss • contribs) 04:01, 23 April 2021 (UTC)

Major cleanup required
A beginner reading this book in the current state is going to be very confused by the absolute mess of different Blender versions. It will switch major versions even during the same tutorial, and the vast majority is so heavily outdated it's not helpful anymore. Keeping it up in the current state is likely more harmful than helpful. If there is no manpower to update it properly, please put a big warning on the front page so no beginner wastes their time going through it. Wolfos123 (discuss • contribs)


 * Agreed. Most of the content here is outdated, unorganized, and has an inconsistent writing style. I want to help get this book back on track but frankly I think writing another book, targeted for Blender 3.0 and later, would be much easier than trying to maintain the dozens of outdated pages here. The fact that some of the pages here were written well over a decade ago doesn't help much.
 * Money-lover-12345 (discuss • contribs) 01:10, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Money-lover-12345 (discuss • contribs) 01:10, 20 January 2023 (UTC)