Talk:Blender 3D: Noob to Pro/Keystroke, Button, and Menu Notation

For keyboards without numeric pad
''For laptop users: You might have to turn on the "Emulate Numpad" option if you don't have a number pad on your laptop. This is found above the "File," "Add," "Timeline," [etc.] pullout bar under "System and OpenGL" (also called the "User Preferences" bar later on).''

I've searched for this for a long time and havent found .... I don't have the "System and OpenGL" bar, only the "User Preferences" bar. Where is this option ???? --Wladston 13:24, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Found it. Put your mouse cursor just under the bottom edge of the "File" menu bar, and drag down. A new panel will open. Dennis G. Jerz, 12 July 2006.

More Syntax
Should we include syntax examples for things like menu paths? With so many different users people are constantently using different ways such as:

SPACE&rarr;Add&rarr;Lamp

SPACE > Add > lamp etc...

and SPACE -> Add -> lamp

So how should we display these paths?

Also some people use 'return' when we seem to have always used ENTER.. hmmm --Kisubo 01:59, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Yes, i think we should. I like the first one with &rarr;.

I also think there should be a global syntax for menu items and values and thelike. This would make them stick out of the text much better and thus the tutorial can be easier referred back to. Like when you've already finished the tutorial before but forgot about a certain function or something. Then it would be easier to find those remarks, if you don't have to read through it again. Using italic letters with quotation marks would be a start (like "File" menu). 84.163.130.119 17:41, 29 March 2006 (UTC) Daniel

Mac Users without multi-button mice
So now there's a section for Mac single-button mice, but on my iMac, running Blender 2.41, I'm finding what's been written here to be inaccurate; did it change at some point? For me, LMB is regular click, RMB is Apple+click, MMB is Option+click, and I'm fairly certain I haven't changed any of the defaults... .

Ok, I looked a bit further, and saw text in the Blender Windowing System page that said part of this. I duplicated it here, but am guessing that it probably shouldn't be in both places.

DavidJaquay 20:52, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Key sequence
It would be fine to add some syntax about key sequence : how to write the CTRL, SHIFT, MKEY sequence ?

I think it should be : CTRL + SHIFT + MKEY ( some people write : CTRL-SHIFT-M ). Others : ALT, MKEY : ALT + MKEY ( some people write : ALT-M ). --N comme Nul 14:57, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Reformated content
I've reformated content to use footnotes on this page, as well as imported in the Non-standard equipment from other chapters. The purpose: I've also use the wikibook syntax, if someone likes those old orange tables, feel free to add a style-sheet for them. EvanCarroll 17:00, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
 * To eliminate redundancy, and better overall book content by centralizing niche stuff.
 * To better equip those with non-standard equipment early on

Mac Command key
On the newer Mac keyboard they have removed the Apple logo form the command key. Since the command key has had this weird character ( &#8984; ) on it for so long it might be easier to refer to it by the character itself.

 &#8984; 

Remove "notation" section
I think we should remove the "notation" section. The logic behind this is simple: all the keys are very intuitive and easy to find: we're not teaching Blender to someone who started using their computer yesterday. If it says, then you press the Alt key. Easy as that.

Right now the table is basically formatted as:

It feels like simple copy-paste: I propose we simply clarify the difficult ones, such as the difference between and. A better option altogether is to replace with  and replace  with, but that's a discussion for another day and may require rehauling the whole book.

Since I don't think anyone's working on the book right now, I'm just going to leave this message here as documentation.

Money-lover-12345 (discuss • contribs) 19:49, 2 January 2023 (UTC)