Blender now has a Modifier stack (Editbutton, F9KEY). As such, we should use it over existing methods to pair mesh and armature, as the modifier stack is optimised and simple to use. Note: You don’t need to parent the mesh to the Armature anymore. The only case you could need to do this would be animating the Armature object itself. Then the mesh should also follow the armature. In this case select mesh, then armature, and do CTRL-PKEY –> Object.<\/div>\n
This is supposed to be for newbies, but the article discusses “old” ways of doing things, then switches to the “new” way of doing things, then compares them, then talks about buttons I don’t see with meanings I don’t understand, then tells me that the new way really is better, and then promises that the next pages will teach me even more. That last part should be a given: It would be impossible for a page to teach me any less, since this one didn’t teach me anything at all. <\/p>\n
One thing that works against the people writing these guides is that the interface is so dynamic they can’t discuss it using specifics. They can’t say, “look for the ‘nerdle’ button, next to the ‘foo’ button on the right panel”, because the user might not have those controls on the right. They might be on the left. Or hidden. Or jammed into a little postage-stamp window at the bottom where the button can’t be seen. Or when they bring that set of controls into view it will replace the window they were working in, with no clue how to make it go away so they can go back to work. You can’t even say “look for the red button”, because the program has various interface themes that will re-shape and re-color everything. So, these tutorials must be coy about what controls look like and where you can find them. Once you do manage to hunt down the button, you may find it is disabled. Why? You don’t know, and the noob guide isn’t going to tell you. <\/p>\n
After five hours I’d finally managed to wrangle some sort of useable geometry out of the thing and I was ready to save my work. This is where things turned ugly. Despite that fact that this is open-source software, they don’t have any open-source file formats. (To be more exact, they don’t have any simple text \/ ascii \/ raw dump of the data, which is easy to write and easy to read.) You can only save using various proprietary formats used by other 3d programs. The only one I could use was “3DS”, which is a very, very common format. So I saved it, but the resulting file was gibberish. No other program I have can read it. I have no idea what blender is doing, but it is not saving these files correctly. <\/p>\n
The website explains that while the old version used a plugin for 3DS files, this feature is built in to newer versions! I don’t know if the version I’m using is the new or old one in their book, and I shouldn’t need to. They have a link that promises more info, but it’s dead. The linked page is gone.<\/p>\n
So after all of this work the only thing I can do is save my work in a bunch of file formats I can’t read, or save it to one file format I can read but which Blender can’t write properly. <\/p>\n
Many, many thousands of hours of hard work went into making this software. Niche software. The audience for this sort of thing is already small, and the program works at every turn to defeat and repell eager new users. <\/p>\n
What a sick waste of everyone’s time. Including mine.<\/p>\n
Jerks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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