[Bf-funboard] Blendfile Tutorials

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Hi

I hope this is not too much offtopic.

  By the way, I mostly agree with Jeffrey's post on respect for the user.

  The arrows on the new buttons keep bothering me since they are useful for
the total beginner, but for nobody else. So I thought of how to teach a
rookie the buttons. And I found that Blender got most of what is needed
already built in.

OK, here is my try:

www.people.freenet.de/haunt_house/blender/blender_buttons.blend
www.people.freenet.de/haunt_house/blender/blender_buttons.zip
(both contain the same)

  In addition to learning the buttons, it has the advantage that the Blender
newbie works entirely with blender and therefore is already involved with
the use. Instant interaction.

  So please find weaknesses and improvements (typos) and if you think it's
helpful for the beginner, I have some more tuts like that in mind (a bit
like the old learning path and assuming that the reader knows nothing about
blender or even 3d). I just want to get rid of the damn false prejudice that
Blender is hard to learn, while it is actually just not documented well,
meaning that the documentation is too far away from the download area or too
large to just get started. The online documentation is more a reference than
a quick helper. A 10 pound block of candy is hard to enjoy.

  So my suggestion is this: on the Blender binary download pages (or even as
a recommendation between the link and the download area), offer some of
those blends, or html tuts of similar or better quality. It is better to
explain Blender than to make it selfexplanatory. Both does the same, but the
first won't harm efficiency.

Thanks in advance

Haunt_House