Totally Random

Banj wrote: I broke my vow never to go outside today...

Yes, I did too, but it wasn't snowing then. However I was still blinded by my glasses constantly steaming up above my mask/scarf combo.
At one point a guy started talking to me and I couldn't even see where the damn voice was coming from. So I just left him... wherever he was.
He's probably still talking to me now.

You mustn't wear glasses and scarves at the same time. It's illegal.
And that guy was probably just talking to his phone, anyway.

Glasses. Scarf. AND Mask!

Yeah, I initially thought it was someone chatting on the phone but he was saying something about moving his bins so that I had room to walk past.

Couldn't see him.
Couldn't see the bins.

I just kept on in a straight line and hoped I didn't bump into anything.

It's been so cold recently that pipes have now started leaking.
Lovely.

Not good.
(Just pointing out, you know, in case you weren't aware...)

I decided to install Blender today. But while making cubes and cylinders is easy, the stuff I want to do is.... not so much so, so I decided to actually watch some tutorials. With one cat on the tablet obscuring the screen and the other continuously talking over the audio this proved a bit difficult, though...

Have you never used Blender before?

I used to use it a lot back in the old days when the interface was awful and the texturing was a bit clunky.
And now that they have a nicer interface with PBR textures and node editors and fancy cycles renderers and Evee viewports... I no longer know how to use it properly.

I tried once, like 20 years ago. It was awful and - as with all other 3d software I tried back then - I found hand coding much easier. But the coding languages change and hand coding isn't so easy anymore So I figured I'd give blender another chance. I've downloaded the installer before, but didn't get as far as actually installing it.

I still think hand coding feels better. Like, I don't get numbers with 6 or 7 decimals when I only need one, and I don't get 5 million faces when I can make do with 20. But I'm already stuck on the grid in Blender. One tutorial said that each grid is 1 meter (or at least that's how I interpreted it) but it's definitely not the case. And now I can't even find where I told it to use meters in the first place... (I'm sure it's right there, in my face...)[

I'm still hoping to find somewhere I can manually adjust coordinates.... (I think I saw a possible such place in the video I just watched but I haven't tried yet)
EDIT: Nope.

Does pressing N still bring up a panel with numbers?
(EDIT: Or was it T? )
Or is my memory fading again.

I never really used the numbers thing as I did all the modelling by extruding edges and just guessing that things were in the right place.

N brings up the transformations numbers.
T is for a tool bar
S is for scale and R for rotate and for some reason, I think G is for translation (in space, not of languages)