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Revision as of 15:52, 10 December 2012
Title of script: Basic Description of the Blender interface
Author: Bhanu Prakash, Monisha Banerjee
Keywords: Scene, 3D Panel, Cube, Lamp, Camera, Axis, View, Select, Object, Info Panel, File, Add, Render, Outliner Panel, Timeline Panel
Reviewers: Namita Lobo, Leena Mulye
| 00:03 | Welcome to the series of Blender tutorials. |
| 00:07 | This tutorial is about basic description of the Blender interface in Blender 2.59. |
| 00:15 | This script has been contributed by Bhanu Prakash and edited by Monisha Banerjee |
| 00:22 | After watching this tutorial, we shall learn the different windows of the Blender interface, |
| 00:29 | the parameters and tabs assigned to each window, how to select an object in the 3D view, |
| 00:37 | and how to move an object in X,Y & Z directions |
| 00:44 | I assume that you know how to get started with Blender.
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| 00:48 | If not then please refer to our earlier tutorials on getting Blender. |
| 00:56 | This is the 3D panel. |
| 00:58 | By default there are three objects present in the 3D view. |
| 01:03 | a cube, a lamp and a camera. |
| 01:10 | The cube is already selected by default. |
| 01:14 | Right click to select the lamp |
| 01:19 | Right click to select the camera. |
| 01:23 | So to select any object in the 3D view, you must right click on that object.
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| 01:31 | Right click to select the cube. |
| 01:35 | These three coloured arrows, merging at the centre of the cube, represent the 3D Transform manipulator. |
| 01:44 | This manipulator helps to move the object in a particular axis. |
| 01:51 | Red color represents X axis, |
| 01:55 | green represents Y axis |
| 01:59 | and blue represents Z axis. |
| 02:05 | Left click and hold the green handle and move your mouse left to right. |
| 02:15 | For keyboard shortcut, Press G&Y
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| 02:22 | We see that the object moves only in the direction of Y axis. |
| 02:32 | Similarly, move the object along Z axis using blue handle. |
| 02:45 | For keyboard shortcut, Press G&Z
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| 02:56 | Now, try moving the object along X axis. |
| 03:08 | For keyboard shortcut, Press G&X |
| 03:23 | The area enclosed by the red box is the 3D view.
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| 03:32 | Go to the bottom left corner of the 3D view.
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| 03:36 | Left click View. Here is a list of various view options for the 3D view.
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| 03:46 | Left click ‘Top’.For keyboard shortcut, press numpad 7. |
| 03:52 | The 3D view changes from User Perspective to Top view. |
| 03:57 | We can see our object from the top view. |
| 04:03 | Left click Select. Here is a list of various selection options for all objects in the 3d view.
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| 04:18 | Left click Object. Here is a list of various editing options for the active object. |
| 04:35 | On the left side of the 3D view is the object Tools panel.
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| 04:41 | This panel lists the various tools used to modify the active object in the 3D view. |
| 04:49 | The tools are grouped in different categories. |
| 04:42 | Transform, Object, Shading, Keyframes, Motion Paths, repeat, Grease Pencil
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| 05:13 | For example, let's move the lamp in the 3D view. |
| 05:19 | Right click to select the lamp
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| 05:23 | Go to the Object tools panel. |
| 05:28 | You can see the options for the lamp in the Object tools panel.
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| 05:35 | Left click translate and move your mouse.
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| 05:41 | The lamp moves in the direction of the mouse movement. |
| 05:46 | Right click on screen or Press Esc on your keyboard to cancel translate |
| 05:57 | On the right side of the 3D view is another panel hidden by default |
| 06:04 | Left click the plus sign at the top right corner of the 3D view, to open the hidden panel. |
| 06:12 | For keyboard shortcut, press N |
| 06:17 | This extra Object Transform panel is similar to the Object panel in the Properties window. |
| 06:25 | We will see the Object panel in detail in subsequent tutorials. |
| 06:30 | For now, let's hide the extra panel and go back to the default 3D view.
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| 06:37 | Move your mouse cursor to the left edge of the extra Object Transform panel. |
| 06:44 | A double-headed arrow appears
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| 06:48 | Left click and drag your mouse to the right. |
| 06:52 | The extra Object Transform panel is once again hidden. |
| 06:59 | You can also use the keyboard shortcut N to hide or unhide this panel. |
| 07:07 | To learn more about the 3D view, see the tutorial Types of Windows - 3D view |
| 07:18 | The area enclosed by the red box is the Info panel.
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| 07:24 | It is the top most panel in our Blender interface. ‘Info’ panel contains the main menu. |
| 07:33 | Left click File. |
| 07:36 | This menu contains File options such as creating a new file, opening an existing file, saving the file, User Preferences, importing or exporting a file, etc. |
| 07:57 | Left click Add. |
| 08:00 | Here is the object repository. |
| 08:04 | We can add new objects to the 3D view using this menu. |
| 08:10 | For keyboard shortcut, Press Shift & A. |
| 08:18s | Now, lets add a plane to the 3D view.
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| 08:23 | Left click anywhere on screen to move the 3D cursor. |
| 08:29 | I am choosing this location. |
| 08:34 | Press Shift & A to bring up the ADD menu. |
| 08:39 | Mesh. Left click plane. |
| 08:44 | A new plane is added to the 3D view at the 3D cursor position. |
| 08:51 | To understand about 3D cursor, please see the tutorial Navigation – 3D cursor.
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| 09:00 | Similarly, you can try adding some more objects to the 3D view. |
| 09:13 | Now let's go back to the Info panel |
| 09:16 | Left click Render to open the Render menu |
| 09:21 | Render has different render options like render image, render animation, show or hide render view, etc. |
| 09:34 | Render settings will be covered in detail in later tutorials. |
| 09:40 | To learn more about the Info Panel, see the tutorial Type of Windows - File Browser and Info Panel
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| 09:55 | The area under the red box is the outliner panel. |
| 10:00 | It is present at the top right corner of the blender interface. |
| 10:07 | Outliner gives a list of all the objects present in the 3D view.
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| 10:14 | To learn more about the Outliner, see the tutorial Types of Windows - Outliner. |
| 10:26 | The area inside the red box is the properties window. |
| 10:36 | This window contains a wide range of panels with a large number of tools and settings. |
| 10:38 | We shall use these panels many times while working in Blender. |
| 10:44 | Properties window is present at the bottom right corner of the Blender interface, below the outliner window. |
| 10:53 | To learn more about the Properties window, see the tutorials Types of Windows - Properties Part 1 and 2 |
| 11:07 | This is the Timeline. |
| 11:10 | It is located below the 3D view.
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| 11:15 | Here we can see the frame range for animation. |
| 11:21 | This green vertical line tells you the current frame on which you are working. |
| 11:28 | You can move this along the frame range. |
| 11:33 | Left click and hold the green line. |
| 11:36 | Now move your mouse. |
| 11:43 | Release left click to confirm frame
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| 11:50 | Start one represents the start frame of our animation range.
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| 11:58 | End 250 represents the end frame of our animation range
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| 12:10 | These are the playback options for our animation. |
| 12:16 | To learn more about the Timeline, see the tutorial Types of Windows - Timeline |
| 12:25 | So, this is a brief overview of the blender interface. |
| 12:30 | Apart from all these windows which are present in the blender workspace by default, |
| 12:35 | there are other windows as well which can be selected from the menu at any point. |
| 12:42 | A detailed description of all these windows is provided in the subsequent tutorials. |
| 12:51 | Now try to select each object in the 3D view; |
| 12:57 | using the 3D transform manipulator, move the cube in X Y and Z directions;
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| 13:06 | explore the view tab; and using translate in the Object Tools panel, move the camera in the 3D view |
| 13:20 | This Tutorial is created by Project Oscar and supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT. |
| 13:28 | More information on the same is available at the following links |
| 13:33 | oscar.iitb.ac.in, and spoken-tutorial.org/NMEICT-Intro. |
| 13:47 | The Spoken Tutorial Project- |
| 13:49 | Conducts workshops using spoken tutorials. |
| 13:53 | Gives certificates to those who pass an online test.
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| 13:57 | For more details, please contact us
contact@spoken-tutorial.org
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| 14:04 | Thanks for joining us |
| 14:06 | and this is Monisha from IIT Bombay signing off. |
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