Learn Blender 3 - Overlays in the Viewport and Show Wireframe on Shaded Objects

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  • Overlay menu is found in the upper right corner of the 3D viewport.
    • Can turn on and off globally all options
  • You can turn on and off
    • Text info
  • Extras
    • Toggles the visibility of the visual represents of some objects that are not necessarily physical, like lights.
    • Objects that do not get rendered and will not appear in the final rendered image.
  • Can overlay wireframe while in other viewport shading modes.
  • Can show
    • Floor
    • Toggle the visibility of guides for
      • Axes
        • X
        • Y
        • Z
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Learn Blender 3 - Adding Objects Viewport Shading and Shaders

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  • Delete objects
    • Outliner
    • Hotkey: x
      • or Delete
    • In viewport
      • Delete key
      • Hotkey: x
        • Must confirm
  • Add objects
    • 3D Viewport Menu
      • Add -> Mesh -> Monkey
      • Add -> Mesh -> Plane
    • Hotkey: Shift + a

 

Materials

  • Object selected, go to material and add one.

 

Viewport shading: Solid

  • Viewport Shading

    • Solid

      • Default
    • Wireframe

      • Turns on x-ray automatically
    • Material Preview

    • Rendered

    • Hotkey: z

      • Must have mouse in 3D Viewport
      • Move mouse to section or press hotkey
        • Wireframe Hotkey: 4
        • Rendering Hotkey: 8
        • Solid Hotkey: 6
        • Material Preview Hotkey: 2
  • Solid method is simple lighting and solid colors

    • Computationally light
    • In color, the default is material which will display to the...
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Learn Blender 3 - Duplicate objects

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  • You can duplicate with the copy and paste command
    • In Blender, select the object, in 3D Viewport, you choose Copy Objects Ctrl + c
      • Then choose Paste Objects Ctrl + v
    • They are copied and pasted in the same location.
      • See it in the outliner
      • Move it to see it
  • You can use the duplicate command to work on the object selected.
    • in 3D viewport Object -> Duplicate Objects
      • Hotkey: Shift + d
    • The difference is that you can move the object right away as if you pressed the g hotkey, which is the grab command.
    • The g command allows you to grab the object and move it. In older versions of Blender, this was the main way to move the...
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Learn Blender 3 - Apply and Reset Transformation Values

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Reset (Clear)

  • Reset transformation values to default.

    • Translation (move), and rotate back to zero
    • Scale back to one.
  • Transform side bar on the right of the 3D viewport

    • Hotkey: n
  • Reset is called clear in Blender

    • Located in 3D Viewport menu:
      • Object -> Clear -> Location
        • Hotkey: alt + g
      • Object -> Clear -> Rotation
        • Hotkey: alt + r
      • Object -> Clear -> Scale
        • Hotkey: alt + s
  • Can reset all by right clicking in the transform side bar and choosing Reset All to Default Values for Move (Location,) Rotation, and Scale individually.

    • Can do the same thing in the Properties editor.
  • Hotkeys for manipulators

    • Select Box
      • Hotkey: Shift + Spacebar...
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Learn Blender 3 - Object Scaling Moving Rotating

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  • Transformations
    • Consists of
      • Move
        • translation
      • Rotate
      • Scale
        • In math, dilation
      • Shear
        • or skew
      • Reflection
  • 3 Ways to do so
    • Manipulators
      • Use icons on the left side of the screen
      • Also known as transform gizmos
  • Move tool
    • Also known as translating
    • Use the axis
    • Use the plane
      • Color indicates that the object does not move in that axis with that color
    • Left mouse clicking and dragging outside the axis or planes will move the object in screen space, parallel to the view.
      • The effect is if you are moving the an image in the canvas in photoshop.
    • Cancel movement by right clicking with the right mouse button before letting go of the left mouse button.
  • Rotate tool
    • Use the axis
    • The object will rotate parallel to the screen...
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Learn Blender 3 - Object Selection

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  • Select box top left toolbar
    • Can click objects in the scene.
      • As you click last selection will be gone.
    • Can box select.
      • If you click and hold the selection button
        there will be options
        • Select
          • You can click and drag with this one
        • Select Box
          • Make a box to select
          • Hotkey b
            • Middle mouse button exclude what is
              inside it.
        • Select Circle
          • Paint and select what was hit
          • Click and hold the left mouse button and
            scroll the middle mouse wheel to increase or decrese the radius
          • Hotkey c
            • Temporarily puts in select circle mode
            • Hold Shift + left mouse click to deselect object
        • Select Lasso
          • Make a lasso to select.
          • Ctrl + Right click mouse button to add to selection
          • Ctrl + Shift + Right click mouse button to remove from...
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Learn Blender 3 - Orbit and Frame Selected Objects

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  • To frame all in 3D Viewport:

    • View -> Frame All
      • Hotkey: Home
  • To frame the selected object in the Viewport:

    • View -> Frame Selected
      • Hotkey: Numpad .
  • To orbit around selection

    • Edit -> Preferences... -> Navigation -> Orbit & Pan -> Orbit Around Selection
      • The orbit point is the selected object. Therefore, it will always stay visible in the viewport.
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