[Bf-docboard] Visual guide to Blender commands? Object semantics?

[Alex Heizer]

I have a small cheat-sheet on my site here, but I'm very sure it's not 
complete:
http://www.blenderama.com/index.php?id=306&backPID=300&tt_news=7

Plus I have a couple tips and tricks here:
http://www.blenderama.com/index.php?id=299

Alex


On Thursday 16 October 2003 03:29 am, Mike Wirth wrote:
> I'm new to Blender and enjoying the process of learning how to use it
> (on Mac OS X).
>
> Has anyone produced a "cheat sheet" (i.e., one or two page visual
> guide) to the Blender keyboard commands/mouse gestures/button
> combinations?  (Note: I'm aware of Appendix A.  I'm suggesting a more
> visual guide organized by mode, task, etc.)
>
> As part of my learning process, I'm sketching one by hand.  If none
> exists yet (or I don't think current ones are sufficiently
> informative :-) I'll probably produce one in Adobe Illustrator/PDF.
> Would this list then be the appropriate place to post it for comments
> and suggestions?  (Can I post email with attachments on this list?)
>
> If my description of what I want is not clear, I can produce a quick
> sample, e.g., for object selection.
>
> TIA,
>
> Mike Wirth
> Palo Alto, California
>
> PS: Haven't gotten that far yet in the manual, but is there a concise
> description of "object semantics"? (e.g., {I'm guessing here :-} when
> a group is created with a parent, the location, rotation and scale
> properties are modified to be relative not to the global coordinates,
> but to the local coordinates of the parent.  Subsequently,
> translation, rotation and scaling of the group need only be be
> reflected by changes in the parent object properties.  Conversely,
> rendering a child object requires the composition of all spatial
> transformations in its parent chain.)
>
> Hmm.... some kind of UML description would be ideal, both as a
> documentation and pedagogic tool, and as a formal spec.
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