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• Navigation in the 3D environment

  • Pan
  • Zoom
  • Orbit

• Pan

  • Move up, down, left, and right.
  • Shift + Middle mouse button

• Zoom

  • Zoom in and out of the environment
  • Roll the middle mouse scroll wheel
    • OR if CTRL + middle mouse button

• Orbit

  • Rotate around the environment
  • Middle mouse button

• Top left corner in the 3D viewport tells you what your current view is.

• Icons in the top right corner of the 3D viewport

  • Camera Icon uses the camera that is active in the scene.
    • Click on it again to toggle back.
  • You can toggle perspective and orthographic projection
    • Perspective is similar to how we see the world
      • Visually, parallel lines converge to a vanishing point
    • Orthographic view, lines do not converge to a vanishing point
  ...

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• Blender has
  • top menu bar
  • bottom status bar
• Top menu bar has menu items
  • Blender Icon
  • File
  • Edit
  • Render
  • Window
  • Help
  • Tabs for different layouts
• Status bar gives information on how to use the active tool
  • You can hide it if you click and hold and drag down on the bottom margin and drag down.
  • To show it again, click on the bottom border of the interface and drag up.
• To maximize an area, hover over it and press CTRL+Spacebar, if you are on Windows. There should be something equivalent on each platform, such as possibly COMMAND and Spacebar.
• Each area that is for viewing has an editor.
  • You can control and view scene information with it.
• You can join, split, and scale areas.
  • This is very specific to Blender and...

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• When you open Blender, you will get a Splash screen.

• In the splash screen, there is quick setup where you can choose

  • Language
  • Shortcuts
    • Blender
    • Blender 27x
    • Industry Compatible
  • Select with
    • Left or Right
  • Spacebar
    • Play
    • Tools
    • Search
  • Theme
    • Blender Dark (Default)
  • You might have the option to load settings from previous versions of Blender as well.

• You can click Save New Settings

  • Next time you open blender, the Splash Screen will look different.

• You can change the options again in Blender Preferences

  • (Edit -> Preferences)

• The default splash screen will have the option to choose the type of interface you can use.

  • It is just a pre-set layout designed to streamline specific tasks.
    • You can setup your...

Blender is an amazing, fully functional 3D package. What really makes it appealing is that fact that you can download any version on the many platforms it supports at anytime.

As mentioned on blender.org own website:

"You will always be able to download every version of Blender at any time. It’s yours to keep, forever!"

This is appealing because you can version lock your production to a specific version. You can come back to it years later (maybe you are working on a sequel,) and you can use the exact same version and features your project was built on. Still to this day, this is a major problem in studios using popular commercial software. They can't get older versions because of licensing or it is simply not available anymore. They can't use the new versions because the features they built their pipeline on is deprecated or works differently. In a lot of cases, there simply isn't time or budget to deal with this overhead of getting old assets to work in...