Reply To: 2.8 Hurdles and Roadblocks

[Matthew Fricker]

Ok so I couldn’t help myself and I decided to try 2.8 and now I’m hooked! Sorry @smurfmier1985 , I ignored your advice to wait 🙁 

I have decided to use my campaign to get to grips with 2.8 to ressurect an old project that I had given up on long ago – that way if anything goes worng then I haven’t really lost anything too important or wasted any time. 

However , I already have questions and they are just going to keep coming : 

First up : collections…. I watched that video that you recommended to Omar @smurfmier1985 , and it did help, but are collections a jazzed up version of layers? My old file was nicely organised into layers but after opening the file in 2.8 , all of the objects seem to be randomly put into various collections that don’t eem to correspond with the layers as far as I can see. Should I re-organise them into collections as if I was placing them into layers? From what I can see, the new collections system seems to work more along the lines of Photoshops layer/grouping system – am I right? 

Secondly : how do I go about saving my startup file? I have two monitors and I always had a Blender workspace set on each and saved as a startup file so it was always there when I opened Blender. However, the option to save startup file seems to have gone AWOL….

Thats about it for now , but there will be more to come as I delve deeper into the depths of 2.8 whilst also tring to  remember how to use Blender as I haventused it for nearly 2 years 😛 

Oh and lastly, Hi @waylow , not sure if you remember me (FrikkR) but i’m back! 

Aaah , how do you turn off type overwrite in this thing?!! Everytime I go to edit what I’ve written , it types over what iv’e already wrote – Hence all the errors that I can’t change……