Talk:Blender 3D: Noob to Pro/Beginning Tips

This page should be moved. It is using a the subsurf command before you even create a simple object. Other than that it contained some good content. TwistedWeasel (talk) 04:22, 10 December 2007 (UTC)TwistedWeasel

This page is breath of fresh air. It looks real clean when you compare it to the previous section. --Darkfire 18:39, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

What exactly is the Shift+E doing? Is there a button equivalent? 70.53.43.119 17:30, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

I am sorry, but I don't understand how to select the cube in the New empty scene.

Where do I find the "Select Mesh → Edges → Crease SubSurf." controls?
 * The article reads create a crease subsurf by *either* using Shift+E or "Select Mesh -> Edges -> Crease SubSurf"... I'm using Blender 2.43 and I hit space to bring up the menu Edit->Edges->Create SubSurf...

"First, select the cube by clicking RMB (right mouse button) on the cube in the 3D window (pink outlines indicate the selected objects). In other versions of Linux you accomplish this by clicking LMB (left mouse button)"
 * -ahm... what?85.177.152.171 (talk) 10:25, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Rhettro (talk) 21:52, 10 June 2010 (UTC)As a tutorial, I think it is fine, just a little advanced for an entry level modeling exercise. Why introduce the concept of SubSurf modeling so early? A simple chair model, by using extrude, subdiving faces and adding and subtracting vertices from edges would serve to reinforce the use of the basic modeling tools.

Rendering tips section
Why are these here?

First off, "Set your render level" to....? to ? oh just set it? well it has a default setting, so does that mean I have to change it from the default? Why not make that the new default? What are the levels? What do they do? is higher Better (clearer)? Is it a bad idea to go very high?

Second, "Also, double check that the "Enable modifier during rendering" toggle is on (dark) as it should be by default. "

This setting can be found where? I'd triple check it if I had any idea where to look. It sounds like the stuff I do might not show up in the render unless this is on.

If these render comments are actually in any way useful, they should probably be referenced in the render section of the guide. As a noob, reading this from start to finish, I'm almost in amazement that someone thought this would somehow be useful at this point, especially without providing information on what/why the point of these actions are, and where to find these settings.

As a noob, I'm not going to be able to retain this information until I need it, because it's gobbley-gook.. it's too vague, and a little stressfull because I'm wondering why I don't even remotely "get that" and is it in the wrong place, or am I?

--Deadguy (talk) 12:59, 26 August 2009 (UTC)