Are there good non-video tutorials for using blender? Video tutorials have their strengths but some textual ones might be good to support the video ones, as it’s easier to find the essential stuff in textual tutorials that just have screenshots attached, and they might be more detailed when it comes to how one should find and use specific tools.
As an example, as I’ve just started studying Blender today I’m having a weird problem with something very elementary. I have a manipulated plane from which I’m trying to delete parts. Well, for some reason selecting a bunch of things seemed to exclude a group of vertices. These vertices aren’t attached to any faces nor each other, and no matter how I try, I can’t seem to select them - unless I’m using the Object mode to select the whole object these vertices are a part of. This is really giving me a wtf feeling at the moment. Any ideas what I’m doing wrong, as it’s not selecting the solo vertices?
The official manual is usually where I found the most answers:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual
Have you tried B key or C key select for your vertices? What does happens when you select them all (A key) ?
Thanks for the reply! I didn’t know of the C mode (It doesn’t even seem to mention that in the select page of the manual here), but now (in addition to the shortcuts) I found the menu for choosing those. Any way, neither of them seems to select the vertices. Here’s a screenshot of the whole object selected. The panes on the left side get selected with the B, C and lasso selector tools, but the detached single vertices do not.
In general, I currently feel that Blender is more difficult for newbies compared to Unity. But I suppose 3D modeling in general requires using shortcuts a lot more so having the most basic stuff in front isn’t that important as you get used to working with the software.
Yeah, Blender is much more friendly after you learn some keyboard shortcuts. Just keep iterating on it, you pick them up in no time (G/S/R in edit mode!). Learn the simple things really well and keep trying to take small bites of the stuff you don’t get; Blender will reward every bit of effort you put into it.