Blender/C2/The-Blender-Interface/English-timed

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

Visual Cue	Narration
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.
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.
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
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
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.
03:32	Go to the bottom left corner of the 3D view.
03:36	Left click View. Here is a list of various view options for the 3D view.
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.
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.
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
05:13	For example, let's move the lamp in the 3D view.
05:19	Right click to select the lamp
05:23	Go to the Object tools panel.
05:28	You can see the options for the lamp in the Object tools panel.
05:35	Left click translate and move your mouse.
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.
06:37	Move your mouse cursor to the left edge of the extra Object Transform panel.
06:44	A double-headed arrow appears
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
11:50	Start one represents the start frame of our animation range.
11:58	End 250 represents the end frame of our animation range
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;
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.
13:57	For more details, please contact us contact@spoken-tutorial.org
14:04	Thanks for joining us
14:06	and this is Monisha from IIT Bombay signing off.

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