No matter how often i check blenderdocs, never ocne, and i do mean never once did it help me, their shown pictures for help are so terribly outdated it doesnt even look remotely like current blender anymore.
And when im lucky enough to find something i actually need, the advice is just plainwrong (most recently the knife tool and cut-through, literally wrong information)
Yes, the documentation is not very good. Tutorials and forums are better learning resources.
Well, that might partly be the result of Blenderfoundation every once in a blue m8on decide that “now is a good time to completely overhaul the interface”. Blender 2.6, I think when they started to put effort in UI, but after that the UI alone has been overhauled 3 to 4 times, I believe. And people who have lived trough all those UI overhauls (let alone introducing, and scrapping renderes that need to be worked differently each) have jist accepted to adapt “from the olden times”, and never bother to update the tutprials, sine they’ll be obsolete the next time Blender UI is overhauled (for better or worse).
i’ve been using blender since 2.8, because of 2.8, and i can’t see much of a difference especially layout-wise from 2.8
I personnaly learned blender almost solely by reading the doc thoroughly, it rarely presented any problem to me and rhe doc is my go to when I have an issue.
How old is your version of blender? I can barely find anything with how different the docs look
you sure you’re looking at the right docs? https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/ this seems pretty up to date to me
of course, where else would i be looking?
Like you accidentally end up here instead, for example: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/2.92/animation/index.html
Pretty subtle difference to most people (2.92 vs. latest). Especially if you get to the doc page via a search engine-- The search result often refers to a particular version, just cause of how crawling/indexing works, and that’s likely to not be the your version.
I downloaded the latest version from blender itself, but I get you
Just to make sure we’re talking about the same thing: The problem that I’m describing is that you’ll sometimes accidentally find old docs, e.g. docs for version 2.73 when your program version is 3.6 (or whatever the newest is). Not so much that you’re using an old version of the Blender program.
