Blender Overview : First Interactions

Blender Blog Tutorial Visual Published January 5, 2013 at 10:32 pm No Comments

first interactions with blender

LINK to go straight to the first video.

In this series of videos I go through some of the common things that seemed confusing to me when first jumping into Blender from Maya. Hopefully this is all the information you need to be able to get quite some distance through into Blender in the shortest time possible. Especially from a modelling for games perspective.

Having said that, they’ll be much more explored in the coming chapters of this general Blender overview to help with other curiosities.

FULL CONTENTS

1. Camera Controls

2. Left Select

3. 3D Cursor

4. Border Select

5. Edit Mode

6. Basic modelling

7. 3D Manipulator

8. Add

9. Windows (Basic)

10. Snapping

11. Windows Customising

12. Origins

13. Spacebar Search

14. General Customising

15. View/Frame Selected

16. Potential Problems

PART 1 : Camera Controls, Left Select, 3D Cursor

PART 2 : Border Select, Edit Mode, Basic Modelling

If you’re interested in more customising options with border select, more info can be found here….

http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?258151-How-to-set-drag-border-selection

PART 3 : 3D Manipulator, Add, Windows (Basic), Snapping

Note: During the snapping segment the grid lines are very difficult to make out, I hope it still makes sense!

PART 4 : Windows Customising, Origins, Spacebar Search

Note: At 2:25 – The screen recording software hasn’t recorded the cursor icon change at this point, the cursor should turn into something that has an arrow at either end.

PART 5: General Customising, View/Frame Selected, Potential Problems

If you got through all that congratulations! You should now be handy enough to get exploring your creative ideas and further exploring the interface and features!

Here’s a link to the next section – Menu Comparison….