Dont understand the point you try to make. Using Blender settings is like the first thing you will do , to use Blender or any 3d app. I have used blender on 9'' netbook with super slow cpu. You can use it without numpad.

I repeat 3d apps dont care and should not care about beginners. What a beginner thinks about the GUI of a 3d app, just does not matter. If he does not feel lost then he does not use a 3d app. There is no way to produce a begineer friendly GUI for a 3d app as it would be for iPhone , or iPad apps. The future set is just insanely huge to do so. Also its a bad idea because you will need a complex GUI anyway to do even the most basic 3d art.

If you want to do very basic 3d art then you should use apps specializing on such thing and definitely not Blender. Blender has a very impressive GUI , but in the end is like operating Star Ship Enterprise without the help of its onboard AI computer. Thats the price of photorealism. If you are not willing to take on that kind of complexity then you are not cut out for 3d app. Maya and 3d Studio Max which have the monopoly in 3d apps are far more ugly and far less usable than Blender.

3d is so complex that most 3d artists specialize on specific areas. This is why I think they have the most demanding GUIs in software.

Wasted space ? Where ? Blender GUI is scalable , customisable., dockable , drag and dropable They have recently implemented also retina support and there are on going ports for android and iOS. Blender GUI is one of the first full blown OpenGL guis and is lighting fast.

Blender GUI also supports flow based coding, using nodes and recently custom nodes have been implemented allowing any python script to be visualised as nodes inside blender. I can go on for days on its feature set. Its just huge and very well thought out. Does it beat Softimage ? Nope Softimage is still the King. But definitely beats behemoths as 3ds MAX and Maya that have big issues with their guis.

No idea why you don't find it impressive, you should.

On Wednesday, 16 October 2013, 17:40, Goubier Thierry <thierry.goubier@cea.fr> wrote:

Le 16/10/2013 15:05, dimitris chloupis a �crit :
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> Blender also has very nice GUI, used to be awful at it, but a few years
> ago they committed the biggest Coding Sin, they rewrote the software and
> old GUI was thrown away. Its no Softimage but its a good example none
> the less. Definitely much better than Pharo.

Hum. I'm utterly lost in the Blender GUI. The fact I'm trying it on a
netbook with a 11"6 screen and no keypad has probably something to do
with it: you can't even use it without going into the options and
remapping the keyboard shortcuts... And all that wasted space!

So count me as not impressed by that GUI. Maybe as a good power user
GUI, for someone who has a 30" display, a full size keyboard, a mouse
and invested the time to learn it.

The GUI that accomodates beginners and power user on a highly complex
system is a rare beast indeed :(

However, like the dark theme discussion, it shows something of interest
for Pharo: egoistic applications which takes over a full screen with
their own selfish look and feel are perfectly fine :):)

Thierry
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