Blender/C2/Moving-in-3D-Space/English
Title of script: Navigation - Moving in 3D Space
Author: Chirag Raman, Monisha Banerjee
Keywords: Pan, Rotate, Zoom, Viewport
Reviewers: Leena Mulye
Script update according to review on 22/10/11
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| Slide 1 | Welcome to the series of Blender Tutorials. This tutorial is about Navigation – Moving in 3D space in Blender 2.59. This script has been contributed by Chirag Raman and edited by Monisha Banerjee. |
| Slide 2 | After watching this tutorial, we shall learn how to pan, rotate and zoom within a 3D space such as the Blender viewport. |
| System Requirement | Please add the system requirement slide here. |
| Slide 3 |
I assume that you already know how to install Blender on your system. If not please refer to our earlier tutorials on Installing Blender. |
| Slide 7 – image of 3-button and 2-button mouse. |
Navigation in the Blender depends a lot on the type of mouse you have – |
| Hover on 3 button mouse. | a 3 button mouse |
| Hover on 2 button mouse | or a 2 button mouse |
| Hover on mouse wheel | with a wheel. |
| Hover around 2 button mouse | I am using a 2 button mouse with a wheel for this series of Blender Tutorials. |
| Blender workspace open |
The first action we shall see is Panning a view. There are three ways of doing this using the mouse and the keyboard. First we use the Shift key with the mouse wheel or scroll. |
| Hold Shift and Press down the mouse wheel and move the mouse. | Hold shift, press down the mouse-wheel and move the mouse. The scene pans in the direction of the mouse movement both left to right and up and down. |
| Hold Shift + scroll the mouse wheel up and down. |
Now, hold SHIFT and scroll the mouse wheel up and down. The scene pans up and down. This is the second method of Panning the view. |
| Hold SHIFT + scroll the mouse wheel downwards |
Hold SHIFT and scroll the mouse wheel downwards. The view pans upwards. |
| Hold CTRL + scroll the mouse wheel upwards |
Hold SHIFT and scroll the mouse wheel upwards. The view pans downwards. |
| Go back to centre align | Third and last method of Panning the view, is to use the CTRL key with the mouse wheel. |
| Hold CTRL + scroll the mouse wheel | Hold CTRL and scroll the mouse wheel. The view pans from left to right and vice versa. |
| Hold CTRL + scroll the mouse wheel upwards | Hold Ctrl and scroll the mouse wheel upwards. The view pans to the left. |
| Hold CTRL + scroll the mouse wheel downwards | Hold Ctrl and scroll the mouse wheel downwards. The view pans to the right. |
| You can also use your numpad keys to pan the view. | |
| Ctrl plus 2 |
Ctrl & numpad 2 pans the view upwards. |
| Ctrl plus 8 |
Ctrl & numpad 8 pans the view downwards. |
| Ctrl plus 4 |
Ctrl & numpad 4 pans the view to the right. |
| Ctrl plus 6 |
Ctrl & numpad 6 pans the view to the left. |
| If you are using a laptop, you need to emulate your number keys as numpad. To learn how to emulate numpad, see the tutorial on User Preferences. | |
| Go back to centre align | Right. The next action we shall see is to rotate the view. |
| Press and hold your mouse wheel and move the mouse in a square pattern. |
Press down your mouse wheel and move the mouse in a square pattern. That gives us turntable rotation. |
| You can also use the trackball type of rotation in Blender for little more flexibility over the action of rotation. For this, you need to change the option ‘turntable’ to ‘trackball’ in the User Preferences window. To learn how to do this, see the tutorial on User Preferences. | |
| Rotating the view can be done either | |
| Move the cursor left to right | left to right |
| Move the cursor up and down | or up and down. |
| Move the cursor left to right | Now let us rotate the view left to right. |
| Alt + Ctrl + Scroll the mouse wheel up and down. | Hold ctrl, alt and scroll the mouse wheel up and down. The view rotates left to right and vice versa. |
| Alt + Ctrl + scroll the mouse wheel upwards | Hold ctrl, alt and scroll the mouse wheel upwards. The view rotates to the left. |
| Alt + Ctrl + scroll the mouse wheel downwards | Hold ctrl, alt and scroll the mouse wheel downwards. The view rotates to the right. |
| You can also use the shortcut keys 4 and 6 on the numpad. | |
| Numpad 4 | 4 rotates the view to the left. |
| Numpad 6 | 6 rotates the view to the right. |
| Now we rotate the view up and down. | |
| Shift + Alt + Scroll the mouse wheel up and down. | Hold Shift, Alt and scroll the wheel up and down. The view rotates up and down |
| Shift + Alt + Scroll the mouse wheel upwards |
Hold Shift, Alt and scroll the wheel upwards. The view rotates downwards. |
| Shift + Alt + Scroll the mouse wheel downwards |
Hold Shift, Alt and scroll the wheel downwards. The view rotates upwards. |
| You can also use the shortcut keys 2 and 8 on the numpad. | |
| Numpad 2 | 2 rotates the view upwards. |
| Numpad 8 | 8 rotates the view downwards. |
| Go back to centre align | Last action is Zooming the view. |
| Scroll the mouse wheel up. |
Scroll the mouse wheel upwards to zoom in. |
| Scroll the mouse wheel down |
Scroll the mouse wheel downwards to zoom out. Easy isn’t it? |
| For shortcut, use the plus and minus keys on the numpad. | |
| Press numpad + | Press numpad + to zoom in |
| Press numpad - | Press numpad – to zoom out |
| That wraps up our tutorial on Navigating in 3D space within the Blender Viewport. | |
| Summary | Please add summary slide here. |
| Slide 4 - assignment |
Now try to pan, rotate and zoom the 3D view. All the best! |
| Slide 5 |
This Tutorial is created by Project Oscar and supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT. More
information on the same is available at the following links oscar.iitb.ac.in, and spoken-tutorial.org/NMEICT-Intro. The Spoken Tutorial Project conducts workshops using spoken tutorials also gives certificates to those who pass an online test. For more details, please contact sptutemail@gmail.com Thanks for joining us |
| Slide 6 |
and this is Monisha from IIT Bombay signing off. |
