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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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• 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 wh
  ...

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• Hotkey: Shift + r to repeat last command

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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 object. The move manipulator wasn't so prominent.
    • Press either x, y, or z to restrict movement al
    ...

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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 -> b
  • Select Circle
    • Hotkey: Shift + S...

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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 ob
  ...

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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 re
        ...

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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.

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 the new pipeline or recr...