WEBVTT 00:05.340 --> 00:06.930 Hello everybody and welcome back. 00:06.930 --> 00:10.590 This is going to be a quick tip lecture on blenders preferences. 00:10.650 --> 00:18.930 Now the preferences section you may have already been to under edit and preferences now blenders Preferences 00:19.140 --> 00:22.100 window is also an edit to type. 00:22.170 --> 00:25.620 You can notice it's there at the very end under the Data column. 00:26.100 --> 00:29.820 I'm going to open it up in its own window which is under edit and preferences. 00:29.820 --> 00:30.240 There we go. 00:30.240 --> 00:32.460 We've got our own little window that sits on top. 00:32.460 --> 00:39.040 Now sometimes if that's already open it will open up behind everything else and that can be well the 00:39.090 --> 00:43.620 easiest way to say is annoying because you click on blender preferences and it doesn't open. 00:43.680 --> 00:48.410 So a couple of key blender preferences here we've already gone through a few of them. 00:48.420 --> 00:52.200 So under the General tab we'll start there because that's where it's opened. 00:52.260 --> 00:58.530 I would make sure that you've got cycles compute device and have a look to see whether or not you can 00:58.530 --> 01:05.760 use graphic card acceleration will go into much more detail in that later in the course if you can do 01:05.760 --> 01:06.980 a couple of tests. 01:07.050 --> 01:13.440 Now if you have an integrated graphics card you may find that even though you've got a graphics card 01:13.440 --> 01:17.210 selected it isn't any better than your CPA. 01:17.220 --> 01:21.000 In fact there are some CPE used that will outperform a graphics card. 01:21.000 --> 01:26.700 It doesn't make sense if you think for a graphics card is to do graphics with but that's just how it 01:26.700 --> 01:33.240 is some CPE use are more powerful this way round is fine with me I need my processor to record the screen 01:33.270 --> 01:35.760 and do other things at the same time. 01:35.880 --> 01:39.610 So I've got it set to my internal graphics card. 01:39.810 --> 01:42.340 The next system tab files. 01:42.390 --> 01:47.550 Now one of the things that you may have noticed if we go and open up where you're saving your files 01:47.880 --> 01:52.470 is you end up with these dot blend one files sitting everywhere. 01:52.470 --> 01:53.820 Well what are they. 01:53.820 --> 01:59.460 Well they're blenders own versioning system so if I go ahead and or I've missed it. 01:59.460 --> 02:04.770 There we go blender Preferences window and go down to save and load and open up that's why I scroll 02:04.770 --> 02:10.620 down we see it says save versions one so keeps an older version of the blend file that you're working 02:10.620 --> 02:17.040 on and you can increase that all the way up to 32 if you wanted to I wouldn't manage my files like that 02:17.040 --> 02:23.190 in fact at this point now I've pointed it out only set it to zero because I manage the versioning of 02:23.190 --> 02:26.040 my files completely differently. 02:26.040 --> 02:28.440 So this this setting may not be for everyone. 02:28.440 --> 02:35.750 It basically means if you hit save you can go back one save if you want to and I'm going to save my 02:35.750 --> 02:42.800 preferences so that every new blend to file the I open will have that setting which is really useful 02:43.070 --> 02:49.940 when I open up auto save auto save temporary in temporary files Yep time every two minutes that's absolutely 02:49.940 --> 02:55.010 fine for me and I'm sure blender will crash at some point and we'll have to use it in anger. 02:55.010 --> 02:55.520 Right. 02:55.550 --> 03:01.100 The other thing to just show you with the Save versions is how to open up a prior version. 03:01.100 --> 03:09.460 So if we go to file an open your dot blend ones do not exist in this list we have to go up to the top 03:09.470 --> 03:10.360 right. 03:10.460 --> 03:17.720 We can see that the filter button has been pressed and we're filtering for any folders and blend files. 03:17.720 --> 03:23.870 Well the next one along is dot blend One two three etc files so if we turn that's on we can see our 03:23.870 --> 03:27.460 other files that we can open up in Blender if we need to. 03:27.470 --> 03:32.180 Because that's the only way we're going to be able to do it with the exception of going into your file 03:32.180 --> 03:34.330 manager and renaming the file. 03:34.430 --> 03:35.610 I'm going to cancel that for the moment. 03:35.620 --> 03:37.250 So I don't want to open up. 03:37.250 --> 03:40.040 Let's go back to our preferences and go over a few others. 03:40.070 --> 03:45.920 Let's go from the top interface resolution scale I find really important because I'm trying to show 03:45.920 --> 03:47.800 you guys what's on my screen. 03:47.810 --> 03:53.300 However if your eyesight is really good you can make that smallest of the interfaces out of your way 03:54.000 --> 03:57.860 or you can make it really big if your eyesight is not that good. 03:57.860 --> 03:59.690 I'm gonna send it back to one point two five. 03:59.900 --> 04:05.300 I'm not going to go through all of the preferences and details just the ones that I find are important 04:05.300 --> 04:07.490 to get on the about themes. 04:07.490 --> 04:14.150 This is where you can go ahead and select the blender lights or blender dark or indeed install a different 04:14.150 --> 04:14.960 theme. 04:14.960 --> 04:17.760 Now the difference between blend the lights and blended dark. 04:18.010 --> 04:21.490 Well if we switch the blender light now you can see it's a lot brighter. 04:21.530 --> 04:27.380 Now personally I use this one on my laptop because I often use my laptop in lights environments and 04:27.380 --> 04:31.450 having it set dark makes things very difficult to read sometimes. 04:31.690 --> 04:41.060 If we go down to inputs these are key if you want to use Blender efficiently on a laptop you can emulate 04:41.060 --> 04:43.990 your num pad if you put a tick in that box. 04:44.030 --> 04:49.580 It means the numbers across the top of the keyboard rather than a dedicated num pad will now function 04:49.610 --> 04:51.800 exactly like a number pad does. 04:51.800 --> 04:58.040 And you can emulate a three button mouse with out and left mouse that can be really useful if for some 04:58.040 --> 05:06.000 reason you don't have a three button mouse or indeed you're using a trackpad on a laptop whilst we're 05:06.000 --> 05:14.580 in the input tab I'm going to go to view manipulation Orbitz and pan now personally what I like is when 05:14.580 --> 05:21.600 I'm orbiting I wants to be able to orbit around what I have selected some kind of person tick in orbit 05:21.660 --> 05:23.030 around selection. 05:23.040 --> 05:28.920 This simply means that when I've got something selected blenders not going to rotate around the object 05:29.310 --> 05:30.590 in some arbitrary manner. 05:30.600 --> 05:36.750 It's going to rotate literally around whatever selected auto perspective we're going to lever on it 05:36.750 --> 05:42.950 simply means that when you go into one of the side front top bottom views it automatically goes to awful 05:42.980 --> 05:44.340 graphic perspective. 05:44.610 --> 05:45.770 Zoom. 05:45.850 --> 05:54.780 Occasionally I turn on zoom to mouse position that generally is when I'm working with a sculpt or if 05:54.780 --> 05:56.360 I'm working on something. 05:56.380 --> 06:01.350 What I do have to zoom in and out lots of a larger object. 06:01.350 --> 06:07.680 Now in general I will leave it off it's not necessary but later on especially when we get to the sculpting 06:07.680 --> 06:13.150 or more complex objects you may see me turn that on in order to do that. 06:13.200 --> 06:15.530 And again that's the great thing about blender. 06:15.570 --> 06:17.730 If you turn things on you can turn them off again. 06:17.730 --> 06:22.020 It really is customizable to whatever you want. 06:22.020 --> 06:29.880 Now want to skip off of this now and go to add ons add ons add ons islands we will use add ons as we 06:29.880 --> 06:35.250 go through the course I'm not going to turn any on at the moment I'll introduce you to them as we go 06:35.550 --> 06:43.100 now add ons are brilliant they enable additional functionality or workflow improvements within blender 06:43.590 --> 06:49.800 and often they can be free because they're developed by the community for the community there are also 06:49.800 --> 06:55.530 some amazing paid for add ons as well and I will show you a couple of those as we go through the course 06:55.530 --> 07:01.560 where they do genuinely help speed things along flip fluids is a great one but I'm not sure if it's 07:01.560 --> 07:05.390 ready for 2.8 just yet and that's the other thing. 07:05.580 --> 07:11.610 These are all dependent on being upgraded so if you're used to seeing something in this list that you 07:11.610 --> 07:18.660 had before and doesn't work now well that's because the developer of that particular add on hasn't updated 07:18.660 --> 07:21.740 it to work fully in 2.8. 07:21.750 --> 07:26.960 Now before I shut down blender preferences I'm going to save my preferences and close that window. 07:26.970 --> 07:32.100 Now one thing to bear in mind is that if you do screw something up in blender you can reset it back 07:32.100 --> 07:33.450 to factory settings. 07:33.450 --> 07:41.340 It's something that I'd only ever advise if you really needed to but that option is under file and load 07:41.400 --> 07:43.010 factory settings. 07:43.080 --> 07:48.450 So I've done that when I started teaching this course because I had saved the load of my other preferences 07:48.660 --> 07:53.280 from playing around with it and I wanted to make sure it was a vanilla as possible. 07:53.280 --> 07:56.400 When you guys joined me on this learning journey. 07:56.670 --> 08:03.680 Finally if you do set up a different type of start file you can go ahead and save startup file. 08:03.720 --> 08:09.590 Now that's typically used where you've got let's say you're constantly modelling humanoid figures so 08:09.600 --> 08:14.820 you put instead of a cube you put a base mesh that's roughly human shape and then you just go at it 08:14.820 --> 08:18.640 from there rather than having to import it all the time. 08:18.810 --> 08:22.920 And of course once again you can change that depending on what your workflow is doing. 08:22.920 --> 08:27.210 The other thing that you can do is if you start building up a collection of materials that you've made 08:27.630 --> 08:33.420 you can save them in your startup file which means that every time you load up blender your materials 08:33.480 --> 08:38.880 are there and ready for you rather than having to create them every time you open up blender. 08:38.880 --> 08:40.500 Well that's it for the user preferences. 08:40.560 --> 08:42.260 Lots of customization. 08:42.390 --> 08:48.150 I should now be able to orbit around objects I have selected rather than just the center of the viewport 08:48.570 --> 08:49.710 which is really useful. 08:49.710 --> 08:51.560 That's what I wanted to do. 08:51.570 --> 08:52.270 Perfect. 08:52.350 --> 08:54.780 And I'll see you guys in the next lecture.