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Revision as of 13:40, 20 November 2016
Welcome to the notes for a 3-hour workshop introducing the basics of Blender, written by Debbie. By the end of this workshop, we'll have covered the basics of: the Blender Interface, Shortcuts, Selecting Objects, Transforming Objects, Moving Objects, Adding and Removing Objects, Adding Modifiers, Creating Diffuse/Specular materials, UV Unwrapping, Lighting, Camera Positioning, and how to render with Cycles (Blender's ray-trace based production render engine). Finally, we will export the image and make it into a 3d pano for google cardboard. ALL IN 3 HOURS. CAN WE DO IT?
Contents
Set up your devices
Ideally, you should have a laptop with a dedicated numpad, but if you don't we can emulate it. It is advisable that you have a three-mouse button.
Keyboard
- If you have a laptop without dedicated numpad, you can emulate the numpad by going to Blender User Preferences > Input.
- Blender User Preferences SHORTCUT is
Cmd ,
Mouse
- If you don't have a 3 button mouse, you can emulate the three-button mouse by going to Blender User Preferences > Input.
- Blender User Preferences SHORTCUT is
Cmd ,
- Selecting 'emulate mouse' will mean that you can simulate the middle mouse button if you press the
Altkey while using the left mouse button. - But please get a three-button mouse with a scroll wheel. Anything else is unnecessary self-torture!
Open Blender - It always begins with a box
- Whenever you open Blender, it always starts with a box.
- Left-mouse button: If you randomly clicked elsewhere with your left mouse button, your screen might look like this:
- Middle-mouse button: If you click on your middle mouse button and drag around, this is what moves your view around.
Set the Origin using the Snap Menu
Snap Menu
- After
See also
- Blender - My master notes for Blender
