[ENDED] BC1-1808 – August 2018 Class Homepage – Getting Started with 3D Modeling & Blender 2.8

[silentheart00]

@yukinoh1989 Yeah, I’ll be joining and plan to help out the class if Kent needs help.  Since he’ll go over the new version of Blender, it’ll be nice to have someone go over it before they get to redoing the intro courses.  It’s going to be really fun and the community is very supportive.

[smurfmier1985]

@theluthier Hello Kent, I’m learning Blender for about 2 months now (so not totally new, but most times I still feel like I don’t know what I’m doing.. :-p ). Because I’ve been here a little while I recently already finished the ‘model with primitives exercise’. 

Is it okay if I make a new one during this class? I want to practise and make something more challenging than I did last time. And I haven’t tried 2.8 yet, I want to practise with that too. I’m joining class to learn more and get better at modeling, so I want to do some homework 🙂

(I will also post the one I already did as proof I already past it)

Thanks for hosting these awesome classes, I’m really looking forward to it !!

[Aaron Rudderham]

@smurfmier1985  Whilst I’m not Kent if the last class is anything to go by then absolutely! Admittedly your old exercise would still be completely valid if you decide to use that instead but if you’d rather redo it to test your newfound skills then by all means go for it!

[smurfmier1985]

@thecabbagedetective Thanks for your reply Aaron! Awesome, I will challenge myself with something new 🙂

[Jake Korosi]

@yukinoh1989 

I also heard that the 2.8 will come up. some programs need to first be deleted then reinstalled .
How does this work with blender ? Do i first delete it and then install again or is it more like he update the older version ?

Luckily, Blender is not like that!  You will be able to download and install Blender 2.8 to a different folder, without having to uninstall or overwrite Blender 2.79.  You will want to do this anyway, and have both of them installed – remember, 2.79 is still the official current version; 2.8 is a special preview version that will become the official version later this autumn.  The class is like an early start to be prepared for that.  

[yukino hatake]

@jakeblended
thanx for letting me know. It would indeed be wiser to keep the older one then too 🙂

[Jake Korosi]

@theluthier thanks I will definitely try to come up with a short list of questions to ask; although that’s not really what I meant.  I was thinking more along the lines of not questions, but observations or things we have learned about 2.8 by experimenting.  The kinds of things that would be useful or interesting more for a Blender user established in the fundamentals who will be transitioning to 2.8, rather than someone newly starting out.

[Kent Trammell]

@jigsaw Indeed! This current class ‘system’ has essentially been an experiment using existing features of the website. We quickly learned that this linear forum thread is not ideal. But now that the class format has proven useful, I’m pushing for our web dev to build a proper system for Classes. I explained my proposal design [subject to change] in this livestream starting around 41:25.

[Aaron Rudderham]

Kinda glad this month’s class is gonna be a lot more laid back, combination of basically being on Blender everyday and having to adjust to 2.8. Never used it before so this is gonna be a whole new territory, I envy you with experience.

[William Miller]

QUESTION:  Should I change the default keymap to Blender 2.7x, or should I take the time to learn the new shortcuts and embrace the new technology?

[smurfmier1985]

@williamatics Hi William, question: are there a lot of changes in the shortcuts then? Just starting to remember the ‘old’ ones…

[Kent Trammell]

@smurfmier1985 Welcome! And yes, for Week 1’s homework you can absolutely provide a link to your primitives exercise as well as submit a second, unique primitives scene for the class.

Glad you’re looking forward to the class!

[Kent Trammell]

@jakeblended OH now I see what you mean. Yeah a list of helpful transition tricks would be amazing! Maybe it’d be best if you add a bolded + all caps title “Tips for Transitioning to Blender 2.8” to a reply to this thread. And as you stumble on more things, add them to that original reply. That way I could link to that singular list via announcement or something. Great idea btw!

[Kent Trammell]

@williamatics That’s the money question..I’ll answer it this way:

If I was not a teacher and was using Blender for personal + professional use only, I would strongly consider the convenience of using the 2.7 keymap. That’s not to say I would never transition to 2.8’s new methods, but likely not at first.

As an instructor, I’m trying to learn the new ways.

[Zsolt Cseh]

@williamatics What?? Really? New shortcuts in 2.8? No! 😀 

Then I will need some adds on to bring back the old ones, it took so much time to be relatively fluent with them

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