New "Add" items to help people to jump into the deep end of blender.
Some super-technical people and some totally non-technical people both need a little bit of eye candy and/or real-world examples of a tool before they can be convinced to try it.
It would be nice if the Blender splash screen had a button to automatically download and open the scene the splash screen was made from.
And for animators it would be nice if you could add a full Suzanne monkey body (or a basic human) that was already rigged and ready to experiment with animating straight from the add menu.
I'm a noob so I'm not sure where exactly to go looking for such files. I wanted to demonstrate a basic rigged human to someone and it took me ages to find one that was free to download and would open/import properly into 2.8 and I inevitably had to create new accounts on websites before I was able to finally acquire one.
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I think it better than to add a link to the test scenes. I think for about 80% of Blender users even those Splash screen scene are way to advanced
See this link: blender.org/download/releases/2-80/
Sounds like what the Affinity apps have on their splash screens. You can load sample files and view tutorials right from the splash screen.
To Google free rigged body model, download it, open in Blender - takes less then minute. With free scenes same. If you don't know exactly what looking for - few minutes. If user don't want to spant even few minutes to find and get something maybe it's too early for Blender and it need to start from something else.
* @IIIFGIII * I downloaded several files from several websites and they did not import with the rig because they weren't .blend I guess. I had to sign up for blendswap and download more than one before I found a good enough one (blendswap database is not easy to sort through IMO)
Feature ideas like this are really great places where artists can contribute to Blender. You think there should be some complex preset objects? Make them. From there, an enterprising developer (or an artist with just a little bit of Python knowledge) can bundle them into an add-on as a proof of concept.