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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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• Default layout is split into 4 with 4 different areas.

  • 3D Viewport (Shift F5)
  • Outliner (Shift F9)
  • Properties (Shift F7)
  • Timeline (Shift F12)

• Every editor have a header at the top of the editor

  • It is context dependent on the editor
  • Top left will have the Editor Type selector
    • If you just hover over the editor type selector, it will give an
      description of the editor

• 3D Viewport Here is where we affect the 3D environment.

  • You can
    • model
    • uv unwrap
    • texture
    • light
    • rig
    • animate
    • simulation
    • groom

• Timeline plays animation and has transport controls like a video editor

  • Transport controls
    • Works when mouse is hovering over the 3D viewport area or the time line area
    • Play (Spacebar)
    • Play reverse (Shift + Ctrl + Spacebar)
    • Jump...

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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...

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• Go to Blender website (https://www.blender.org/) to download Blender.
• You can click on the Download (https://www.blender.org/download/) link.
  • It should auto-detect your platform and start downloading.
• If it does not autodetect your platform, you can click on Previous Versions (https://www.blender.org/download/previous-versions/) in the navigation bar.
  • There should be a download (https://download.blender.org/release/) button that links to every previous version of Blender.
• For version 3 of Blender, download here (https://download.blender.org/release/Blender3.0/)
  • Using Blender 3.0.1 for these examples.
    • You can download it for
      • Windows
        • windows-x64.msi (...