Talk:Blender 3D: Noob to Pro/Archive 5

"Noob to Pro", name change proposal
moved here from Talk:Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro/Team page

I am a user of Blender as well as an active wikipedia/wikibooks editor I'd like to ask if there would be any interest in renaming the book Blender: Beginner to Professional rather than using the American slang term of "Noob". I propose this due to the fact that the Blender application is so high up on the quality scale, that I think the beginner's book should perhaps reflect this.--Read-write-services (talk) 01:55, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Hello, I'm not quite sure if this is the correct place for this, however,

I like it noob to pro, it has that campy, friendly feeling Pearts (talk) 02:56, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Blender 2.5x
Time to start thinking about at least some support for the new version of Blender. It seems to be stable enough to accumulate a growing coterie of regular users. So I have added an alternative branch to the User Interface section describing the new layout. Probably worth adding new parts elsewhere, as well, such as volumetric materials. Ldo (talk) 03:20, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Oh, by the way, I have tagged all such 2.5x-specific pages with &#123;&#123;Template:B3D:N2P/Prerelease&#125;&#125;. There are some more details on the template page about the conventions I’m following. Ldo (talk) 03:41, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

I'm going through the book for my first time, and I have Blender 2.56 Beta. If I find anything that seems out-of-date, I'll add to the discussion of the specific page. I don't quite understand the Template thing though. Vi3gamehkr (talk) 17:02, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Nevermind. I found the new pages. Does anyone know if they have ALL been created and modified accordingly? If not and I find a page with no 2.5X equivalent (and content is drastically different between the tutorial and Blender 2.5X) then I'll create it if I can. Vi3gamehkr (talk) 20:01, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

different versions of Blender
I'm looking for general guidance about writing for this book. Blender's user interface keeps changing, and this has resulted in a lot of people making notes in the text like "Here's how to do it in 2.49". As a noob myself, I know how frustrating it is when I can't follow an example because my installed version of Blender has a slightly different interface. Is there a particular Blender version or set of Blender versions that all the examples should be tested on? If I'm creating an example, which version(s) should I test my changes on? Is there some other place I should pose this question? Cheers,--Stepheng3 (talk) 15:51, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I've decided to go with 2.49b for now. It may take awhile to update everything, though, especially if I'm the only person working on it.  Hint hint... --Stepheng3 (talk) 18:06, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
 * leave it open ended as much as possible, but try to use the most current version you have available. Pearts (talk) 04:22, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Should we continue documenting workarounds for bugs in releases that are multiple years out of date? --Stepheng3 (talk) 16:58, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
 * There was a discussion of software versions in the reading room this summer, here. --Pi zero (talk) 12:47, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
 * The important question to me is, when a new (stable) version of Blender comes out, do people rapidly upgrade to it, or do they tend to stick with an older version? My suspicion is that they tend to upgrade rapidly. In which case, the only reason to keep documenting older versions is because nobody has got around to updating those older sections yet. Ldo (talk) 03:28, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Update?
I'm new to blender but even I noticed that there is new Blender software called Blender 2.5 alpha. I was wondering if we should update the book and the pictures to Blender 2.5 alpha.

The pictures in this book are from many different versions of Blender anyway so it's no use to update every picture. (Apart from the work this would be ^^) However, as far as I know the next "big" release of Blender will contain a new GUI, so this update will make many pictures completely useless. :/ Morrolan (talk) 18:24, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

Image portfolio
Do we really need the Blender 3D: Noob to Pro/Image Portfolio page? I honestly don't see what purpose it really serves. Electro (talk) 12:35, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

I agree, and have marked it for deletion. Pearts (talk) 22:53, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Now made into a list of categorys containig images Pearts (talk) 12:20, 27 July 2010 (UTC)