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Why are blender docs and related advice either horrendously outdated or plain wrong?
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this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2023
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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?
eh, i dunno, i've ended up on blender docs for 2.7 and such loads of times through google and had to go search for the same page on the modern docs
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.
I try to keep up with the different new versions