Thank you! I'm honestly surprised I haven't found anything similar, or maybe I haven't looked hard enough.

Then again, blender is way more shortcut-oriented than any other software I've used, one of the reasons I like it so much.

not sure if I understand correctly. Ive already put in anchors for every tile, you should be able to click on one and get a shareable URL to send someone to the same tile. Index?

Blender is mainly for visualisation, but I've used it for 3D printing. You can set up models in a parametric way by using modifier stacks (e.g. screw, solidify, subdiv etc) or geometry nodes, but I imagine other software is more advanced in this regard, or needs less customization and thought.

Thanks! I wasn't aware of tools like Lighthouse, will have a look into how it rates things.

Will also take a critical look at contrast again, thought it would be sufficient, and it quickly gets overwhelming in this layout.

thanks! If a fallback is possible, I'll put it in.

Any pointers how to go about the lazy loading? I want to keep it simple

No simple (native) solution yet, as far as I know. While iframe has loading="lazy" support, it probably will be detrimental to accessibility. Could be a fun experiment, though. Maybe try setting preload to "none" on video? But this might be overridden by autoplay attribute.

Solution that would require more work involves removing autoplay attribute from videos and using IntersectionObserver to check when video is inside viewport and start playing it.

Check out the filter in the top right corner menu. I think its too subtle and most people are missing it.

The content is focused on modeling though, now that it has a tag system I might add other sections like sculpting, animation...

Thank you very much for pointing this out, if a play button can be a fallback for those users only I'll put it in there.

I'm a bit weirded out by this being the default even for muted videos. Does that somehow save bandwith because you only get sent one frame of the video? Because otherwise a muted video is just a series of images, and they dont block images by default, right?

I turn off autoplay globally because it's been abused for so long by some news sites, for example, that autoplay a video and then pin it to follow you as you scroll the article.

I find any autoplay, even muted or no audio, to be more of a distraction then helpful in general.

That said, I'm happy to make exceptions for well designed and intentioned sites, and so have allowed it on yours.

In case anybody is wondering, Firefox doesn't block muted videos by default. The above poster had changed their settings to block muted video, which can be overridden per site.

Thanks, and thanks for sharing, I love the idea and will think about it. Even though my intuition says it would be more productive if I put more time into adding content and polish to the existing concept, and people openend the actual software to practise their muscle memory.

I won't make this for other software, because I don't have that level of expertise for anything else. I've spent years helping other blender users, this is why I feel confident to author the information in this particular case.

Love your site!

I googled your name and 'blender' but didn't find any training resources online. I'm a new Blender user and am on the hunt for resources beyond BlenderGuru's Donut tutorial (which is great, btw).

Do you create any Blender educational content?

This is awesome - I was a Master at Autocad for decades, and it was because of mastering keyboard shortcuts for every thing I did and having a vast ustom keyboard mapping. (When I was learning Autocad in the early 90s I read one book "The Abc's of Autocad" -- and I did every lesson in that book ~five times, which taught me all the keymappings and I never had to read another book on Autocad.)

To augment your learnings for blender here are my top:

@HarryBlends is #1 must Blender Binge:

https://www.youtube.com/@harryblends/videos

You can actually follow along with his vids - they are such amazing production quality.

https://www.youtube.com/@CartesianCaramel/videos <- hex unfolding is amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/@akanatinayoutube/videos <- young kid with great tutorials

Also, AI is fantastic at creating python snippets to do things, another HNer was asking about mapping the mouse for macOS and you can remap everything in blender using python (as its all python) --

And I have the bot reference where in the blender docs it got the python functions to map things: https://i.imgur.com/l1S8JaC.png

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Its a pseudonym but I dont have any educational content in my real name either, this is my first attempt to contribute.

But the amount of quality content on youtube has been increasing steadily over the years, If I had to recommend 3, I'd say Grant Abbitt (Beginner), Erindale (Geonodes), Ian Hubert (for Inspiration).

Thanks for pointing it out, that reminds me I should probably run the entire website through a spell checker / AI at least once.

Cheers, happy to hear that!

There already is a "collapse" button if you bring up the menu top right (maybe its too subtle?). Default browser zoom out (Ctrl -) should also work fine, so you can see all shortcuts at once, e.g. on a second monitor or on a beamer, if you're teaching a group of people.

What is a beamer? A video projector?

Yep. German here, just realised this is another english word we use completely inapproprately, same as "handy" (mobile phone) and "public viewing" (public screening). Sorry for butchering your language.