/3/ - 3DCG

With much deliberation I have decided whether or not to post this. After all, Blender is free software, so what right do I have to complain? Plus with all these giant corporations hoarding and abusing copyright, it might be good that someone is fighting for less restrictive copyright artistry type of things. On the other hand, I can no longer accept how buggy and dysfunctional of a software that Blender is.

I was very ticked off at first, but I will try to say this in a more neutral tone of voice. Since blender is free. Had I paid for it I would be less polite about it. My complaints are as follows:

I try to edit a large mesh and random objects are not highlighting in edit mode, even though I selected all objects in object mode. So I try to say "what the heck, maybe I will just join all objects hey?" I join all objects and it destroys random parts of my mesh for no aparent reason.

I look online for hours. Feeling lost an overwhelmed, while the search engines are being vague, but eventually I find an article. Something about making sure objects are "selectable", but the blender manual doesn't explain it well. I eventually figure out what to do, make sure the objects are selectable, yet it still fails on me utterly. Those are hours I will never get back.

During this time, Blender has crashed on me several times and I closed an app, which was an inconvenience, yet it still crashes. I ended up updating from 3.2 to 3.4, and no more crashes, yet Select All still fails utterly.

On to other things, such as the camera. The default cam is frustrating to use. I just want to use Walk cam without having to push a hotkey each time and clicking over and over. I don't know why there is a fly cam? When walk cam is just a fly cam but better.

I want to place polygons. Not dragging them around and putting in custom coordinates. There doesn't seem to be a way to do this, or at least not according to what search engines are telling me.

There's much more to discuss than this.