WEBVTT 00:04.220 --> 00:05.090 Hello everybody. 00:05.090 --> 00:12.560 By the end of this lecture we're going to learn how to move rotate and scale any object within blender. 00:12.560 --> 00:18.980 And it's not just useful for mesh objects like this but we can also have fun with lights in scenes as 00:18.980 --> 00:19.820 well. 00:19.820 --> 00:24.690 Of course this will come much later on in the course when we start rendering out our models. 00:24.710 --> 00:29.590 Let's find out more and hop on over into blender OK. 00:29.590 --> 00:32.610 So are over in the default blend file at the moment. 00:32.680 --> 00:38.780 If you're not hearing you've been playing around you can get back to here by going to file new and going 00:38.780 --> 00:43.190 to general and you'll get a scene very much like this. 00:43.220 --> 00:47.630 So we're talking about transforms in this lecture and transforms a key. 00:47.630 --> 00:52.230 They allow us to move things around they allow us to scale things make them bigger and smaller. 00:52.340 --> 00:58.610 And they also allow us to rotate them and that is really really paramount and useful when you're working 00:58.610 --> 01:02.310 within the 3D Ed because you need to be able to do these things. 01:02.360 --> 01:08.570 They also apply elsewhere in Blender as well which can be really useful with the shortcut keys remain 01:08.570 --> 01:09.080 the same. 01:09.800 --> 01:13.900 So the first place I want to draw your attention to is the left hand side of the screen. 01:13.940 --> 01:16.540 We have a toolbar on the left hand side of the screen. 01:16.550 --> 01:22.460 If you don't see it you can use the shortcut key t to make it appear and there's also little arrow of 01:22.460 --> 01:26.050 you look there in the top left that you can open up. 01:26.090 --> 01:29.900 Now the second group of icons relates to transforming. 01:30.020 --> 01:33.860 You can turn on a couple of widgets that will appear on the screen. 01:34.220 --> 01:37.100 So we've got move rotate and scale. 01:37.100 --> 01:40.880 And we've also got a widget that does all three. 01:40.880 --> 01:46.700 So if we enable that we see that suddenly our cube ends up with these control points around it. 01:46.700 --> 01:53.810 Now notice that they're color coded as well they're color coded in green blue and red representing X 01:53.810 --> 02:02.930 Y and Z Y being the green X being the red and Z being the blue and we confirm that as well in the top 02:02.930 --> 02:03.650 right. 02:03.650 --> 02:07.130 We've got those colors and letters as well. 02:07.130 --> 02:14.060 Now if this didn't happen perhaps you'd D selected from the cube because in order to transform something 02:14.090 --> 02:17.670 you need to tell blender what you want to transform. 02:17.720 --> 02:22.040 Now if you click anywhere else in the scene it would d select an object. 02:22.040 --> 02:29.210 If I left click again in this case and I select the cube you see that it now it has the outline around 02:29.210 --> 02:35.150 it again the orange outline means it's selected and it's also got these tools around it's a scale with 02:35.150 --> 02:37.810 these blocks to rotates. 02:38.270 --> 02:44.720 And also just to move really useful being able to just grab those and move them around. 02:44.720 --> 02:51.170 Now if we had something else selected maybe the camera over here all the lights at the top then the 02:51.170 --> 02:54.380 tool moves to those places. 02:54.430 --> 02:59.890 Now the other place that you could manipulate these is over in the properties panel now similar to the 02:59.890 --> 03:05.560 tools on the left hand side on the right hand side there's a properties panel there's a little arrow 03:05.560 --> 03:09.950 that you can open it up with and you also have the N key. 03:10.090 --> 03:15.430 Now the N Key will bring open this properties panel and it will change depending on what you're doing 03:15.730 --> 03:17.000 and which window. 03:17.040 --> 03:21.790 Ed you're in but we're in the 3D editor at the moment. 03:21.790 --> 03:23.470 So what else can we do here. 03:23.470 --> 03:26.910 Well we can be more precise with where we want this light. 03:26.950 --> 03:28.480 We can click and drag. 03:28.510 --> 03:35.110 We can even type in here so if I wanted to set that to one meter in this case I could do so I could 03:35.110 --> 03:41.290 highlight by clicking and dragging over all of these fields and change them all to the same value that 03:41.290 --> 03:47.530 can be incredibly useful as well such as if you've rotated something I mean you want to set the rotation 03:47.560 --> 03:48.980 all back to zero. 03:49.030 --> 03:56.170 We can highlight it all and press zero and there you go it's cleared the rotation that was once there 03:57.250 --> 04:02.770 there is another way that we can do it and that's already we can see that in the right hand side the 04:02.770 --> 04:09.580 far right hand side we have the object properties so we've got the properties of the 3D window and we 04:09.580 --> 04:15.280 can close that down but we also have the object properties going to make this area here wider by moving 04:15.280 --> 04:22.240 my cursor between these windows to get that double headed arrow and I can make this wider as I want 04:22.240 --> 04:26.800 more much much more narrow about there is can be fine for the moment. 04:26.800 --> 04:28.760 And here is the properties panel. 04:28.780 --> 04:30.300 This is here by default. 04:30.410 --> 04:34.000 We hover over this little icon at the very top of this window. 04:34.090 --> 04:36.910 We can see that the editor type is properties. 04:36.910 --> 04:40.980 In fact these exist all over the place within blender. 04:41.030 --> 04:43.410 We go to this one at the top here we've got outline. 04:43.630 --> 04:50.020 If we go over to the far left we've got a 3D viewport that's the main one we're working in and at the 04:50.020 --> 04:55.420 very bottom we have one called the timeline and these can be changed out and manipulated. 04:55.480 --> 05:02.560 We'll learn about that more later on but we can also set the object properties the objects transform 05:02.560 --> 05:07.740 properties and it's neatly under the transformed dropped down. 05:07.990 --> 05:12.580 So we've played with these and we can click and drag and move around and that's that's great we can 05:12.580 --> 05:13.540 set things up. 05:13.630 --> 05:20.920 But how does this really help us or what we can do is we can start putting things together and rotating 05:20.920 --> 05:22.660 them and moving them around. 05:22.660 --> 05:28.840 But for the moment what's I'd like you to do is get the hang of doing this now I'm a big fan of shortcut 05:28.840 --> 05:34.570 keys but they can be a bit overwhelming from time to time and I don't exclusively use them. 05:34.570 --> 05:39.810 So I will often use an in to bring open these areas on the left and right. 05:40.000 --> 05:45.060 I like N.A. simply because it's a pain to click on the little arrows. 05:45.100 --> 05:49.740 So I go to that and I also use shortcut keys. 05:49.750 --> 05:51.430 I use the menu options. 05:51.460 --> 05:53.230 I use the property panels. 05:53.230 --> 05:55.930 It just depends on what I'm doing if I need something precise. 05:55.930 --> 06:00.280 I'm not going to do it by hand but what I can do is get rid of all of those. 06:00.280 --> 06:04.210 And there are three shortcut keys that you can use as well. 06:04.210 --> 06:09.940 I'm going to open up the tool shelf and just go at the very top again and go to our normal select mode. 06:09.940 --> 06:17.680 Now if I've done that what I can do is compress the G key the G key is all about moving around pretty 06:17.680 --> 06:23.730 cool Hey now what was missing when we were moving before is these arrows. 06:23.890 --> 06:30.000 That's very useful to be able to move something on the x y or z axis. 06:30.070 --> 06:31.330 So how do we manage that. 06:31.360 --> 06:35.910 Well what we can very easily do let's make that gizmo disappear again. 06:35.980 --> 06:42.700 If I press G to move it then I can simply press the letter in the direction I want to lock the movement 06:43.060 --> 06:49.120 so I can get X and it will lock it in the x axis y in the y axis and Z in the z axis. 06:49.150 --> 06:56.290 Now if I didn't want to move it up or down and just around the x y plane what I can do is press G to 06:56.290 --> 07:03.650 say that I want to move it and then say shift and Z to say not on the z axis. 07:03.670 --> 07:09.580 Now if you were to just go shift and Z you turn on what's called wireframe mode and we can turn that 07:09.580 --> 07:16.390 off again we shift in Z so if it's going like this that means that you've not pressed G first or perhaps 07:16.390 --> 07:21.780 you've not pressed one of the other modifier keys s for scaling. 07:21.780 --> 07:30.120 And again we can lock that on X Y and Z or R for rotation and again X Y and Z. 07:30.160 --> 07:30.400 Okay. 07:30.430 --> 07:36.190 So the final thing to touch upon is applying transforms if we open up the properties panel again we 07:36.190 --> 07:42.420 can see that its location is relative to the world origin which is 0 0 and 0. 07:42.420 --> 07:50.260 So it's five meters in the x axis point four meters in the y axis and point to six in the z and that's 07:50.260 --> 07:57.130 to do this orange dots in the middle of our object let's talk about the origin points later on. 07:57.140 --> 08:01.960 We have a rotation and the scale applied to our model. 08:02.000 --> 08:09.470 Now there are plenty of operations in Blender where if you do not apply the rotation and scale you can 08:09.470 --> 08:12.290 end up with some really weird effects going on. 08:12.290 --> 08:19.100 So it's often a good idea to apply the rotation in scale following doing a transform. 08:19.100 --> 08:26.120 The location however is often just left as is unless you've got a very specific case. 08:26.120 --> 08:32.330 So we can do that by going to the very top of the 3D Ed window to the object's menu going to apply and 08:32.330 --> 08:38.030 we can see the shortcut key there is control an A and if we use control and we'll get the same window 08:38.030 --> 08:38.870 up let's try that. 08:38.870 --> 08:40.720 Now control and a. 08:40.730 --> 08:41.630 There we go. 08:41.630 --> 08:49.820 And we want to apply the rotation and scale and we find then that the rotation is set to 0 0 0 and the 08:49.820 --> 08:53.340 scale has been reset to 1. 08:53.360 --> 08:58.100 Now that's a really useful thing to do and there's something that I'm going to remind you about throughout 08:58.100 --> 08:59.610 the course as we go. 08:59.840 --> 09:01.940 And now we've learnt about transforms. 09:01.970 --> 09:07.840 Well I'd like you to do is reinforce that knowledge with a little challenge okay. 09:07.840 --> 09:10.960 So your challenge starts a new blend file. 09:11.050 --> 09:15.490 Once you've done that move the default cube one meter on the z axis. 09:15.520 --> 09:17.520 So that will be moving it up. 09:17.890 --> 09:25.320 Then rotate the default cube 45 degrees on the z axis again once you've done that. 09:25.330 --> 09:32.340 I'd like you to make a diamond shape by scaling it by 2 on the y axis. 09:32.350 --> 09:38.170 Now you will notice at this point if you scale it by two on either the X or Y axis it's not gonna make 09:38.170 --> 09:39.910 a diamond shape straight away. 09:39.910 --> 09:46.270 So what I'd like you to do is play and think about when you might need to apply a transform. 09:46.390 --> 09:47.040 Here's a clue. 09:47.080 --> 09:52.630 It's going to be more than once and the other thing that you can play with is save your moving something 09:52.630 --> 09:54.550 on the z axis by 1. 09:54.550 --> 10:02.830 You could press G to move Z to lock it to the z axis and immediately press the number one press enter 10:02.950 --> 10:05.920 and it's moved by one meter on the z axis. 10:06.250 --> 10:09.490 So it can even be quicker to move things around. 10:09.850 --> 10:12.080 And let me just show you the end states. 10:12.080 --> 10:14.440 What we're trying to achieve. 10:14.610 --> 10:18.860 So this is the final shape that will end up with as you can see here. 10:18.870 --> 10:27.120 I've applied all of my transforms except the location one so we've got sitting with orange dots one 10:27.120 --> 10:30.720 meter above the zero points of the world. 10:30.720 --> 10:33.090 Okay so this is what we're going for. 10:33.090 --> 10:36.020 Go ahead pause a video now and give that a go 10:38.810 --> 10:40.490 Okay everybody Welcome back. 10:40.520 --> 10:47.510 So I'm going to start off by starting a brand new scene so new general Okay so we've got our default 10:47.600 --> 10:48.680 scene in front of us. 10:48.680 --> 10:55.930 I'm gonna press G to move it Zed to lock it to the z axis and I'm going to press the number one and 10:55.970 --> 11:02.360 that's lifted it up one meter and we can confirm that over in the properties panel here we can see that 11:02.360 --> 11:07.850 it has been shifted on the z axis by one meter and we can also open up a three the editor properties 11:07.850 --> 11:13.880 window and see exactly the same information I'm gonna leave this open and then rotate it by 45 degrees 11:13.880 --> 11:15.630 on the z axis. 11:15.830 --> 11:20.220 I'm then going to scale it on the x axis. 11:20.250 --> 11:23.680 Now this is where it starts getting a bit weird. 11:23.720 --> 11:31.430 So if we scale it's in the 3D window itself and on just locking into the access we get it scaling like 11:31.430 --> 11:39.340 this is pretty cool it's making a flatter square of the height one meter. 11:39.500 --> 11:40.030 Okay. 11:40.260 --> 11:43.070 Oh sorry 2 meters there'll be two meters high. 11:43.070 --> 11:43.660 Okay. 11:43.910 --> 11:49.360 That's not what we want we can see here it's scaled on the x and y axis. 11:49.390 --> 11:52.350 Okay so if I set that back to 1. 11:52.400 --> 11:52.690 Okay. 11:52.700 --> 11:56.190 So we can set these independently. 11:56.300 --> 12:04.010 Now you might think Oh okay is that because I didn't apply the the rotation that we have there. 12:04.010 --> 12:04.780 Well let's try it. 12:04.790 --> 12:06.160 Let's see what happens. 12:06.220 --> 12:10.170 And this is what I want to encourage you to do is to play in blender. 12:10.250 --> 12:15.520 What happens if I apply the rotation first and then try and scale it on the x axis. 12:15.530 --> 12:19.100 Oh that looks completely different. 12:19.490 --> 12:23.760 And if I scale on the excesses here it does the same thing. 12:23.780 --> 12:30.350 So because the rotation wasn't applied it was doing something completely different in the 3D viewport. 12:30.410 --> 12:35.030 But as soon as that rotation was applied then it starts behaving differently. 12:35.090 --> 12:44.930 Again pretty cool high but it just shows you the difference that applying or not applying a transform 12:44.930 --> 12:47.570 can have and that's just at this stage. 12:47.570 --> 12:52.030 Later on it can really impact your work and even destroy your models. 12:52.070 --> 12:53.790 If you don't get that right. 12:53.810 --> 13:00.070 So is worthwhile right from the very beginning even at this stage applying those transform. 13:00.080 --> 13:04.120 So now I've just scaled it on the scale and make the diamond. 13:04.200 --> 13:10.560 I'm going to then go out and a and I'm going to apply that scale. 13:10.600 --> 13:11.830 This is our new object. 13:11.830 --> 13:17.200 It's really this dimensions is not being transformed into a different shape. 13:17.380 --> 13:27.210 I'm going to finally save my work with file and save and I'm going to call this transforms Diamond. 13:27.400 --> 13:28.140 Excellent. 13:28.870 --> 13:29.560 Okay. 13:29.590 --> 13:31.240 How did you guys get on. 13:31.270 --> 13:36.310 I know this is a very straightforward start but these are some key skills that you're going to need 13:36.340 --> 13:40.240 as we progressed through the course and so we're going to start with these small steps. 13:40.240 --> 13:45.700 And by the end of this section you'll be amazed at what you can achieve with just these simple tools 13:45.700 --> 13:47.550 that I'm now giving you. 13:47.560 --> 13:50.710 That's it for this lecture and I'll see you in the next one.