WEBVTT 00:04.800 --> 00:09.510 Hello and welcome to this quick lecture on blenders interface. 00:09.780 --> 00:17.340 Now blender has a series of windows and a series of workspaces and it's very very customizable so you 00:17.340 --> 00:21.710 can pick no end of different options that suit you. 00:21.720 --> 00:28.440 Now we've already been tweaking some of the interface by making it larger or smaller in either direction 00:28.470 --> 00:30.520 up or down as you can see here. 00:30.600 --> 00:34.740 We just have to wait to that double headed arrow appears and then we can move things around. 00:35.460 --> 00:39.960 However what happens if we want to change how it looks. 00:39.960 --> 00:42.010 Where are the other bits of blender. 00:42.030 --> 00:45.230 Well on the screen at the moment we have four main areas. 00:45.240 --> 00:51.210 We've got the 3D Ed and if we hover over this drop down in the top left we see we've got the 3D viewport 00:51.270 --> 00:58.740 as the editor type if we click on that it shows us all of the other options that we could have including 00:59.340 --> 01:03.380 some of these shortcuts in order to change. 01:03.390 --> 01:06.450 So if you're a keyboard shortcut person they're right there. 01:06.450 --> 01:12.300 In fact most things within blender do have a keyboard shortcut annotation with them if they've got a 01:12.300 --> 01:13.990 keyboard shortcut. 01:14.070 --> 01:16.130 So you've got Ed types and we can switch this out. 01:16.130 --> 01:18.540 We can switch this to a movie clip Ed.. 01:18.660 --> 01:19.370 And there we go. 01:19.800 --> 01:25.740 And we can switch it back to the 3D viewport and we can hold down shift and the F numbers to skip through 01:25.740 --> 01:27.910 those if we want to now. 01:27.960 --> 01:34.320 So we can customize all of these little areas but we can also customize the entire lots at once. 01:34.380 --> 01:40.400 So if we have a look at the very top we see this is layout modeling sculpting you be editing et cetera. 01:40.420 --> 01:46.530 Now if you've come from an older version of blender you may find that not all of those are there if 01:46.530 --> 01:52.470 they are not then you can scroll along to the end of this list and press the plus button and it gives 01:52.470 --> 01:57.430 you all of these extra areas these workspaces that you can use. 01:57.510 --> 02:03.480 And each one is set up with a different purpose in mind so if we quickly skip through these not in detail 02:03.720 --> 02:09.780 but this is a layout we click on the modelling tab we go to while we jump into edit mode straight away 02:10.170 --> 02:15.600 we'll talk about edit mode in the next section sculpting is there you'll be editing texture paint and 02:15.600 --> 02:20.700 you can see it changing the interface depending on what the task is you're trying to do. 02:21.420 --> 02:28.200 And that's one of the big things with Blender it tends to be a bit overwhelming because it can do so 02:28.200 --> 02:34.650 much and that's why we're going to take you step by step through each of these areas as we go through 02:34.650 --> 02:41.670 the course including customizing your layout creating new layouts however you want to use Blender you 02:41.670 --> 02:43.040 will be able to. 02:43.140 --> 02:49.050 Now one of the quick things I want to show you here is what you might do if you have a multi monitor 02:49.050 --> 02:49.830 setup. 02:49.890 --> 02:55.120 So if we go to the window option one of the things we can do is create a new window. 02:55.140 --> 03:01.620 This is now a new independent window that I can move to another screen which is really really useful 03:01.650 --> 03:03.490 when you need the extra space. 03:03.570 --> 03:05.700 And of course you can close that down as well. 03:05.700 --> 03:11.040 And there is a difference between the new window and the new main window. 03:11.250 --> 03:19.890 A new main window imitates what we have before with different selections of on the top a different window 03:20.040 --> 03:21.390 doesn't have any of those. 03:21.390 --> 03:24.320 It's like an extension of the existing one here. 03:24.540 --> 03:31.600 And so it updates at the same time so that's something to bear in mind a couple of final things. 03:31.680 --> 03:38.370 The head of bars used to be at the bottom of these windows rather than at the top or most of the editor 03:38.370 --> 03:39.280 windows. 03:39.300 --> 03:45.270 If you find an empty space and right click it brings up the header menu and you can flip it to the bottom 03:45.360 --> 03:50.160 if that's how you prefer it if you want to keep it like you may have been used to before. 03:50.160 --> 03:51.570 I'm going to flip it back to the top. 03:51.660 --> 03:57.150 I'm kind of used to head this being at the top now since they are called headers and this is a thing 03:57.150 --> 03:58.770 that I use a lot. 03:58.800 --> 04:05.340 Maximize area so if I'm working showing you a model I'll often go control in space whilst my cursors 04:05.430 --> 04:11.220 in the 3D window and it will maximize that particular area and I can just go and control in space again 04:11.220 --> 04:12.240 to toggle it back. 04:12.330 --> 04:15.150 Now my cursor does have to be in this window. 04:15.180 --> 04:21.330 You may have noticed that if I move my cursor out over the outline on the right hand side and start 04:21.330 --> 04:24.210 using the number pack keys it does nothing. 04:24.210 --> 04:30.360 The moment I move it into the 3D Ed space it then acts accordingly. 04:30.480 --> 04:35.970 So do be careful where you put your cursor as it can change how blender behaves. 04:35.970 --> 04:37.840 And I've seen no end people confused. 04:37.920 --> 04:43.560 They've just nudged their mouse over accidentally while moving things around and then they can't do 04:43.560 --> 04:45.470 what they think they should be able to do. 04:45.480 --> 04:47.680 Very easy to get caught out without one. 04:47.700 --> 04:55.680 Finally at any point you can split and combine windows so at the moment if there isn't a split a widget 04:55.710 --> 05:00.900 like they used to be you just move your cursor into one of the four corners of any editor window and 05:00.900 --> 05:05.400 you get the little cursor change into a cross which means you're able to split a window. 05:05.670 --> 05:12.900 If I click and drag to the left you see a new window appears it will automatically imitate whatever 05:12.900 --> 05:14.100 the previous one was. 05:14.430 --> 05:20.070 Unfortunately you can end up in a bit of a pickle with blenders interface if you're not careful. 05:20.070 --> 05:26.580 But don't worry you can go back at any time to a previous layout very easily. 05:26.580 --> 05:31.620 First of all you may have only opened up a couple of these and you may be struggling to make them disappear 05:31.620 --> 05:31.920 again. 05:31.920 --> 05:35.510 Well the windows must line up so these two can join. 05:35.520 --> 05:37.460 Now these two can join. 05:37.470 --> 05:43.800 Now these two can join notice that an arrow is appearing and the arrow can be flipped to the other way 05:43.830 --> 05:44.940 if necessary. 05:44.940 --> 05:48.510 But the areas that you're merge in have to be the same size. 05:48.870 --> 05:54.360 Alternatively if you'd made a real mess of the interface and you didn't want to do it you can right 05:54.360 --> 05:57.760 click on layouts and delete it. 05:57.870 --> 06:04.980 You can then go along to the plus button at the very end go to general and load up layouts again and 06:04.980 --> 06:06.240 there you go it's back. 06:06.240 --> 06:11.790 You may want to then right click on it and reorder it to the front so ends up where it was before. 06:11.790 --> 06:12.540 So there we go. 06:12.540 --> 06:19.290 Blenders interface is incredibly customizable and I encourage you to explore it and not be scared of 06:19.290 --> 06:19.550 it. 06:19.580 --> 06:25.530 However even though it covers a multitude of different disciplines but you will learn these throughout 06:25.530 --> 06:31.350 the course and you'll become increasingly more comfortable with not only the different workspaces but 06:31.440 --> 06:36.840 altering blenders layout so it suits you and your workflow. 06:36.870 --> 06:40.050 That's it for this lecture and I'll see you in the next one.