[Bf-docboard] Overlooked in the documentation, as far as I can tell....

[Campbell Barton]

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 7:37 PM, marco ardito <ardito at apiform.to.it> wrote:
> Il 29/02/2016 03:45, Campbell Barton ha scritto:
>
> However *some* limits could make sense to document...
>
> - Maximum frame.
> - Length of name inputs.
> - Usable range for objects in the scene.
>
> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Aaron Carlisle <carlisle.b3d at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Avoid including specific details such as:
>
> Blender has 23 different kinds of modifiers.
> Enabling previews adds 65536 bytes to the size of each Blend file (unless
> it’s compressed).
>
>
> I think that *operating* limits (like "Length of name inputs") SHOULD be
> stated somewhere, maybe in a dedicated page, or wherever they make sense.
> They are useful to evaluate tools, plan your work and understand if, when
> your file shows an error, it is due to mistakes or to a reached limit (and
> maybe why): this is always useful, not just in Blender, imho (maybe the
> program could in that case inform you that you have reached a limit, but
> that's another story).
>
> The "current number of modifiers" is a feature, not a limit, imho
> The "bytes used/added" looks more like a somewhat "deep" technical insight
> of the program, not useful to many users, perhaps, but you could need to be
> aware of such details in some cases, ot to completely understand inner
> working of Blender.
>
> --
> Marco

Committed a working-limits page to the advanced chapter.
https://www.blender.org/manual/advanced/index.html