Reply To: This lesson is going way too fast…

[Mahir Tasin]

For everyone in this discussion I would like to state my perspective as I have experienced blender modeling for like 6-8 months already. Despite my experience I have never used a normal or displacement map even though I have quality game assets made before I got membership here which I will be selling very soon. Even though you all are fresh to blender the intimidation and difficulty of  learning new stuff like normal maps and displacement maps are same as mine. Even if you have a spontaneous experience of adapting to lessons then at first you will feel overwhelmed with the lessons as you are feeling right now. At this phase i’d recommend to practice with what they are doing even if you don’t know what you’re doing. Even though you may feel the process i stated is useless but trust me I’m speaking from past experience. This helped me to get over a ton of problems like these. But when all the pieces start coming together everything that you thought went over your head will become self-explanatory. If learning 3D was not a hurdle then everyone would be an artist by now. I have watched a lot of tutorials on these maps like literally the whole YouTube, but trust me no one explained in such a way that Kent did. Just repeat what he does and I’ve seen that library of this place contains everything so even if you are not able to understand the topic this time later on you will encounter the same topic with different context. And also you can ask as many question to them and they are bound to answer you.

I hope this helps and if you get what I’m saying then I think you have got your answer.