WEBVTT 00:04.130 --> 00:06.620 Okay everybody so let's go ahead and starts here. 00:06.620 --> 00:13.280 Go to your browser that you use day in day out and go to w w w dot blender dot org. 00:13.280 --> 00:18.200 Now you'll be able to download 2.8 straight away from 2.8 beta is out. 00:18.200 --> 00:19.120 Very exciting. 00:19.130 --> 00:20.770 I can't wait to get into it. 00:20.810 --> 00:26.420 However there are a few things to work through because when you go ahead and download blender 2.8 you're 00:26.420 --> 00:27.890 presented with this screen. 00:27.890 --> 00:31.940 Occasionally the blender Web site might indeed change if that does happen. 00:32.030 --> 00:37.890 Then go to the download tab at the very top and there's an option to try blend to 2.8 beta. 00:38.000 --> 00:41.530 If you click on that we get to this screen as well. 00:41.630 --> 00:46.490 Leave you downloading for another operating system you can switch between them but the installation 00:46.490 --> 00:47.930 process is slightly different now. 00:47.930 --> 00:52.130 I'm going to require 2.8 windows 64 up here. 00:52.130 --> 00:58.160 Now that's going to take a few minutes to download and what I tend to do is once it's downloaded I open 00:58.160 --> 01:02.410 it up and I extract it to a certain place on my hard drive. 01:02.420 --> 01:06.370 Now that is different to how you'd usually install a program. 01:06.380 --> 01:11.620 And since I download these on a daily basis they are released daily. 01:11.630 --> 01:17.120 It is worthwhile checking back here if you're having issues with your particular version and obviously 01:17.390 --> 01:20.740 don't leave it too long otherwise you might miss out on some features. 01:20.750 --> 01:26.000 So now that that's downloaded I'm going to open up the zip file itself and then I'm going to drag the 01:26.000 --> 01:34.220 folder across into My Documents folder where I have a blender 2.8 folder already set up. 01:34.920 --> 01:35.200 Okay. 01:35.210 --> 01:40.190 So that's opened up and I'm literally going to find that blender 2.8 folder Veritas I've already added 01:40.190 --> 01:45.980 it to my quick access bar you can do favorites over or onto the side bar on Mac and I'm sure you can 01:45.980 --> 01:48.710 do a very similar thing over on windows. 01:48.710 --> 01:54.680 Now that that's copying across what I tend to do is I go to that blender 2.8 folder find the download 01:54.680 --> 01:59.900 that I've actually got I'm going to go Date Modified to get the latest one here and then I go and find 01:59.900 --> 02:05.660 the blender on in this case executable on a Mac it would just be the program file and I drag that to 02:05.660 --> 02:13.040 my taskbar you can drag it to your dock if you wanted to but just be aware that it probably hasn't finished 02:13.160 --> 02:19.180 extracting yet so you do need to wait for that to finish then once the extraction has finished you can 02:19.180 --> 02:26.470 go ahead and launch blender 2.8 you may get a security warning I'm going to run the program and off 02:26.470 --> 02:31.720 we go I'm going to maximize blender and all being well you'll be presented with something similar to 02:31.720 --> 02:39.400 this if you do not have this screen present you may have already tried blend a 2.8 and it already already 02:39.400 --> 02:43.940 had remembered the options that you had you'd actually selected. 02:43.960 --> 02:49.000 So currently this quick setup is what you see if it's brand new and you can even load in your two point 02:49.000 --> 02:50.320 seventy nine settings. 02:50.320 --> 02:56.590 Now as this course goes forward I'm gonna be using what the default settings are here and I will change 02:56.590 --> 02:58.240 them later on if I want to. 02:58.450 --> 03:03.550 So one of the big changes is if your experience with Blender you will remember that we selected things 03:03.550 --> 03:09.280 with the right mouse button and that was very confusing for a lot of newcomers. 03:09.400 --> 03:14.500 And so it's been switched over to left and then we have what the space bar does. 03:14.500 --> 03:17.120 Now I'm going to leave as play at the moment. 03:17.140 --> 03:21.580 And later on I might switch it across to search or perhaps something else. 03:21.580 --> 03:22.920 And that's the great thing about blender. 03:22.930 --> 03:27.940 You can swap things about ASM when you need them depending on your workflows if you're doing a lot of 03:28.030 --> 03:31.220 animation you probably do want the space bar to be playing. 03:31.270 --> 03:34.390 However when I'm modeling I tend to prefer to be searching. 03:34.420 --> 03:37.190 So we may switch that quite early on in the course. 03:37.390 --> 03:38.550 This next one's interesting. 03:38.590 --> 03:41.750 And it depends on how you work. 03:41.800 --> 03:43.280 I like blended dark. 03:43.300 --> 03:44.850 That's the scene you see at the moment. 03:44.850 --> 03:47.650 If we switch it the blender lights is a lot lighter. 03:47.770 --> 03:53.380 And what I tend to find is I end up using blender light more on my laptop when I'm out and about because 03:53.380 --> 03:58.900 the lighter interface is easier to see especially around when light environments perhaps the sun's out 03:59.380 --> 04:05.100 at the moment I'm in my office so I don't want to blast my eyes with bright interface some selected 04:05.170 --> 04:08.590 blender dark and I'm going to save new settings. 04:08.740 --> 04:15.490 Now though this is the splash screen you might have experienced if you hadn't gone through what we'd 04:15.490 --> 04:18.430 just done and you'd already install blender. 04:18.430 --> 04:23.820 So this is your splash screen we can start a new file here we can open we can recover last session. 04:23.920 --> 04:26.710 I've got no doubt we'll be using that a couple of times as well. 04:26.710 --> 04:31.260 I'm going to click away from the splash screen we can bring that up again at any point in the top left. 04:31.270 --> 04:37.510 We can go ahead and click that little blender logo there not the top top one but the black and white 04:37.510 --> 04:40.900 one there the monochrome icon and and bring up the splash screen. 04:41.690 --> 04:42.030 OK. 04:42.040 --> 04:48.880 So before we go any further I just want to do one final thing whilst we're here and go to edit and preferences. 04:48.880 --> 04:55.330 Now Blender is very very customizable so you can change pretty much everything and anything about it. 04:55.330 --> 05:00.210 But the first thing that I want to do in here and we're going to have a nother look at the blender preferences 05:00.220 --> 05:01.920 towards the end of the section as well. 05:02.020 --> 05:08.200 But the first thing I want to do is go to interface and under the scale we can change how zoomed in 05:08.200 --> 05:09.560 the interface is. 05:09.580 --> 05:14.240 Now personally I find it useful to have about one point two five. 05:14.290 --> 05:19.320 Well when I say personally I don't mean for me I mean so you guys can see what I'm doing. 05:19.420 --> 05:24.670 Some blown up the interface ever so slightly see you if yours is more zoomed out all your perhaps you 05:24.670 --> 05:29.120 can't see as clearly on the screen then do remember you can turn up the scale there. 05:29.290 --> 05:34.650 I'm going to remember to save my user preferences I'm going to save preferences in the lower right. 05:34.930 --> 05:39.850 And that will save preferences for all future blend files that you open. 05:39.850 --> 05:43.850 I'm going to close down the Preferences window in front of us. 05:43.900 --> 05:47.800 We have our interface our main interface. 05:47.800 --> 05:53.290 And this is the 3D Ed window that we're presented with with our lovely default cube. 05:53.290 --> 05:56.840 Unfortunately we're not very kind to this cube. 05:56.890 --> 05:59.560 We're going to end up deleting it several times. 05:59.590 --> 06:01.810 However I do like it being there. 06:01.840 --> 06:04.420 Sometimes I do use it sometimes I don't. 06:04.450 --> 06:09.190 And towards the end of this section we'll talk about customizing your interface as well. 06:09.520 --> 06:15.100 So the first thing I'm going to do is introduce you to these icons in the top right. 06:15.100 --> 06:21.880 So this is to control the 3D view which you can do a lot of with your keyboard and with the mouse as 06:21.880 --> 06:22.180 well. 06:22.180 --> 06:28.090 These here have been paramount in may be able to use Blender on my laptop beforehand without these here 06:28.250 --> 06:33.400 in the older versions of blender I just couldn't use my laptop as efficiently as I might have been able 06:33.400 --> 06:35.400 to do I always had to remember three buttons. 06:35.410 --> 06:36.370 Mouse. 06:36.370 --> 06:40.320 I fully recommend having a three buttons mouse if you've got one. 06:40.360 --> 06:43.690 So using the scroll wheel we can zoom in and out 06:46.250 --> 06:52.430 holding down that middle mouse button we can Orbitz and notice at the top here that little gizmo in 06:52.430 --> 06:59.000 the top right was spinning around as well and we can hold down shift and we can do some panning around 06:59.000 --> 07:00.320 our scene. 07:00.330 --> 07:04.750 Now it will take you a while if you're new to get the hang of all of these different controls. 07:04.820 --> 07:10.880 We can also change our view by using these buttons at the top so this whole orbiting that we were just 07:10.880 --> 07:17.750 doing we can click in this circle and move around if you happen to click one of the letters or other 07:18.140 --> 07:24.340 dots that are there you will find that it was around and switch to what's known as an author graphic 07:24.350 --> 07:25.270 perspective. 07:25.280 --> 07:32.630 And if we have a look in the top left of the 3D Ed window we see it says top off the graphic so we can 07:32.630 --> 07:36.680 view our object from multiple angles just by clicking on here. 07:36.680 --> 07:40.160 Now you can also use the NUM pad on your keyboard to do that. 07:40.160 --> 07:42.210 If you have a num pad. 07:42.450 --> 07:48.390 Now the other ones here the plus as you probably guess allows us to zoom in and out the hand allows 07:48.390 --> 07:55.680 us to pan around I'll seen and sometimes you may find that when you do that you lose your model like 07:55.680 --> 07:57.060 we've just done here. 07:57.060 --> 07:58.590 How do we sort that's out. 07:58.620 --> 08:02.660 Well we can go to the view menu and frame selected. 08:02.670 --> 08:05.670 If we had anything selected we did we had the cube. 08:05.670 --> 08:08.390 I'm going to use the scroll worlds just zoom back counts again. 08:09.700 --> 08:16.530 And the middle mouse button to orbit around the next two we're not going to use that much initially. 08:16.660 --> 08:18.910 We're going to use the camera view towards the end. 08:18.910 --> 08:20.830 This is what you will be rendering. 08:20.830 --> 08:27.030 So this is what the camera sees in our scene and we can click that again to come out of camera view. 08:27.160 --> 08:32.100 And this final one is toggle and if we hover over there it's the first time I've hovered long enough. 08:32.230 --> 08:34.000 We see that it says num pad 5. 08:34.000 --> 08:38.230 This is the switch between author graphic and perspective mode. 08:38.230 --> 08:44.410 Now author graphic is very very useful when you're trying to align pieces that are the same size but 08:44.410 --> 08:50.460 where perspective can make it very difficult to do so it basically removes all perspective from a scene 08:50.450 --> 08:53.650 so of a cube this size is five miles away. 08:53.650 --> 08:59.150 It looks the same size in the viewport regardless of how far away is in reality. 08:59.210 --> 09:03.730 I want to switch about perspective mode and I think that about covers it. 09:03.730 --> 09:09.610 And what I'd like you to do just to warm up is make sure you get comfortable with moving around the 09:09.610 --> 09:16.960 scene using your mouse or using these controls up at the top right here to move around this cube. 09:16.960 --> 09:22.450 This is a fundamental skill that you will have to develop and will practice over and over again as we 09:22.450 --> 09:24.150 start modelling in blender. 09:24.160 --> 09:27.070 So you've got blender installed you're up and running. 09:27.070 --> 09:28.100 Ready to go. 09:28.120 --> 09:33.970 You've been introduced to the preferences panel and would take another look at that later on. 09:33.970 --> 09:35.540 I think we're ready to go. 09:35.920 --> 09:39.370 So that's it for this lecture and I'll see you in the next one.