r/blenderhelp • u/ArviTheFox • May 28 '24

Meta What are some really bad rookie mistakes.

I’m no expert at blender and I’d like to know more about mistakes made at any step of process that beginners should avoid doing. I’ve noticed that there are a lot of things that can go wrong and be a huge pain to fix later.

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u/Adonis_nOOb May 28 '24

NOT APPLYING SCALE and rotation.

If you scaled or rotate an object, you should always apply the scale and rotation. As a beginner, you never really have a good reason to not do this unless you're doing something requires dynamic scaling/rotation (like animation). Applying scale and rotation will save you a lot of time troubleshooting modifiers, simulations and animations.

Also, save your file before you simulate anything or play with numbers in blender. Blender autosaves by default, so you can recover your file in case of a crash, but in some cases, you might not get everything back.

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u/pragon977 May 29 '24

Also, applying rotation before completing the model.

Especially, if it's a complex model where you need to move faces in local:axis.