That’s like saying “I want to learn how to drive, but I think it would be a good idea to learn to drive a steam automobile before I fully commit, and I will learn some outdated traffic rules while I’m at it”. This is a terrible, terrible idea and there’s not a single reason you should inflict this upon yourself.

From the Previous Versions page (found by clicking the Blender 2. But we were in this together and you’ll be 4 years late to a party in a completely meaningless way. 1 Answer Sorted by: 2 To be able to use RTX cards with 2.79 you can use one of the nightly builds of 2.79 that came between the latest release of 2.79 and 2.8. Trying to learn the old version will teach you some outdated techniques, practices and hotkeys that are no longer valid.īlender 2.80+ and 3 has a completely different interface compared to older versions, and when you switch to a modern version you will be wondering where all the things menus and buttons went, like we wondered back in the day when 2.80 was introduced. Blender 2.79 is 5 years old at this point and is not a good representation of what Blender is.

Blender 3 and blender 2.79 are two entirely different pieces of software. I would politely disagree that using 2.79 as a newbie is a nice decision.

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