Thursday, February 20, 2014

Intro to Blender



Now that you've had some time to explore Sculptris, you've been able to understand some of its strengths and shortcomings! The next program we have to look at is called Blender, and it's a good counterpart to Sculptris: it's high and low points are sort of opposite to those of Sculptris.


This tutorial will introduce you to the basic blender commands in context. Some of the commands are obsolete, such as double-tapping B for box select paint, or clicking K to loop cut. Here is a quick lookup list that you can refer to whenever you need:

  • Navigation:
    • Mouse Wheel click and hold - move
    • Shift + Mouse Wheel click and hold - strafe 
    • Mouse Wheel scroll - zoom 
    • Numpad 1 - front view
    • Numpad 3 - side view
    • Numpad 5 - perspective toggle
    • Left Mouse - select (reset move with G)
    • Right Mouse - move cursor (confirm move with G)
  • Commands:
    • G - grab
    • A - select all/ deselect all
    • B - box select
    • Z - transparency toggle
    • S - size
    • R - rotate
    • K - knife
    • Ctrl + R - loop cut and slide
    • E - extrude
    • X - delete
  • Search - Spacebar
  • Menu Options:
    • Left Mouse click at top of viewing window - split area
    • Add - add a new polygon

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