[Bf-committers] Current state of Blender's user experience

[Fabien Devaux]

I totally agree with Homac on the support & training.
It would ease adoption in private companies & so, this is a kind of safety
belt/guarantee.
I was used to do training on software in my company, you can easily group
~10 ppl and charge them a good amount each... the revenue/investment ratio
is very good.

Le sam. 23 avr. 2016 à 00:08, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> a écrit :

> I have been using blender for a long time and something that I see is that
> it's power and features have grown greatly. This means that what it takes
> to learn it has also grown greatly.  It is a really hard program to learn.
> On the other hand because of the number of great tutorials and sites to
> help newbies, it is in many ways way easier to learn and it is much easier
> these days to make great art after your first 6 months of use. I wish I
> could have learned what I know now when I started.
>
> The takeaway from this is that the way users support each other is the real
> key to why Blender is great.
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 10:39 PM, homac <homac at strace.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi there!
> >
> >
> > Considering the rating of the reddit replies, lack of customer support
> > (paid) is the most important issue according to them (with 123 points!).
> >
> > To just summarise:
> >
> >
> > Blender's Disadvantages Ordered by Rating:
> > ------------------------------------------
> > 1. No option to have (paid) customer support contracts.
> > 2. UI does not comply to industry quasi standards.
> > 3. Missing or error prone integration with existing tools.
> > 4. No (official) training at acceptable quality level.
> >
> >
> > I think (1) and (4) could actually provide additional funding. (2) is
> > obviously the main reason why newbies get frustrated and leave Blender.
> > People start learning key bindings and procedures, *after* they have
> > decided to use a software.
> >
> >
> > Regards
> >   Holger
> >
> >
> > On 22.04.2016 00:07, Daniel Stokes wrote:
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > I recently came across this thread on the gamedev sub Reddit:
> > >
> >
> https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/4fs4db/why_dont_more_professional_game_studios_use_free/
> > >
> > >
> > > In that thread are several unfavorable opinions about Blender, mostly
> > about
> > > its UI/UX. I thought we had moved past the opinion of Blender's UI
> being
> > > terrible during the 2.5 time frame, so I was a bit surprised to see
> > several
> > > complaints about it. Unfortunately, there are not a lot of specific
> > > complaints other than "it is not the same as Maya/Max".
> > >
> > > I was curious what others on this mailing list thought about the
> current
> > > state of Blender's user experience, if something should be done to
> > improve
> > > it, and what could be done to improve it.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Daniel Stokes
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