<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Jason van Gumster <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:flaw@misaligned.net">flaw@misaligned.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Perhaps not this one. Changing this default makes quite a few online<br></div>
tutorials very disorienting for new users.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I was just firing up a new install of Maya at work just now and I noticed that there are links to some beginner tutorials and such on the splash screen.(I haven't seen this in a while since I have these screens set to not show up way back when I the last version was installed.) Perhaps Early is right about something coming up at the beginning as Blender boots up which points out stuff like this.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Having a toggle button which makes the default file default to this or that default file when a user runs Blender for the first time will probably work too. You know, say like "if you're using Blender for the first time then you should probably use the new user defaults" or some such thing.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Or don't even ask that. Just ask if this is your first time using Blender and if they say yes default it to the "beginner friendly" default file. I mean, that is the beauty of Blender's UI isn't it? It doesn't have to default to just one thing.</div>
<div><br></div><div>phong</div></div></div>