WEBVTT 00:04.400 --> 00:08.020 Hello everybody and welcome back in this lecture we're gonna have a look at snapping. 00:08.180 --> 00:13.850 Now as you can see here we've got two sets of cubes one on the right is perfectly snapped together the 00:13.850 --> 00:17.680 one on the left is a bit wonky to be quite honest. 00:17.960 --> 00:20.500 Now both of these took the same amount of time to do. 00:20.630 --> 00:25.520 So if you need to align things together snapping as your tool but how do we use it. 00:25.520 --> 00:28.640 Let's find out more and hop on over in splendor. 00:28.670 --> 00:29.990 Okay everybody Welcome back. 00:29.990 --> 00:34.820 Or the snapping tool is a very simple one to use but it's got many many options and some of them can 00:34.820 --> 00:37.700 be a bit confusing at the very top of the 3D view. 00:37.700 --> 00:39.290 We've got this magnet tool. 00:39.440 --> 00:40.630 We click on that. 00:40.640 --> 00:41.800 We've turned snapping on. 00:41.980 --> 00:42.250 Okay. 00:42.260 --> 00:43.100 What does that mean. 00:43.100 --> 00:45.370 Well it means if we go ahead and move our cube. 00:45.380 --> 00:48.530 Now you'll notice that it moves in whole increments. 00:48.530 --> 00:52.160 In fact it's moving one blender unit or one meter at a time as we go. 00:52.460 --> 00:58.940 If we go into our all for graphic modes the top front left right back at whatever you've picked you 00:58.940 --> 01:04.040 can see that it now snaps to the grid and because resumed in just enough to see the smaller squares 01:04.100 --> 01:07.910 it's moving by point one of a unit as well. 01:07.910 --> 01:14.120 And we can confirm that by having a look over at the transform of the cube the cube object is selected 01:14.420 --> 01:20.240 and the same information is available in the transform options in the properties window if you pop that 01:20.240 --> 01:21.390 sounds. 01:21.410 --> 01:27.400 Now notice that the coordinate here the Z quarter of one meter refers to whether or in doctors. 01:27.410 --> 01:32.080 So if I press G again to move it we can see that it's moving by point 1. 01:32.120 --> 01:37.030 If I zoom out a little further until you can't see those thin lines. 01:37.040 --> 01:40.700 Now when I try to move it it will move by whole units at a time. 01:40.700 --> 01:44.360 Now if you are trying to snap something you don't want it snapping. 01:44.360 --> 01:48.920 Now if any point you don't want snapping turned on and you want to toggle it off quickly you can just 01:48.920 --> 01:55.340 hold down control whilst it's turned on and then it will turn off it will take off. 01:55.340 --> 01:58.300 If I let go of control then it snaps back on again. 01:58.370 --> 02:04.370 If you need to toggle it on and off you will notice that the toggle key is now gone but you can use 02:04.370 --> 02:11.140 the shortcut key shift and tab to toggle it on and shift and tab to toggle it off again. 02:11.150 --> 02:15.850 Now what you won't notice by just doing that straight away have a look at the location. 02:15.860 --> 02:18.080 Currently it's going up by whole numbers. 02:18.650 --> 02:25.670 If I go shift and tap and turn it off we see that it's now going up by whatever it is available to it. 02:26.030 --> 02:33.820 If I go ahead and click and place the cube and then go shift and TAB turning snapping back on. 02:33.980 --> 02:35.830 We notice when we go to move it. 02:35.960 --> 02:41.810 Yes it's doing whole numbers again but is not whole numbers as it was before his whole numbers from 02:41.810 --> 02:46.970 its new position which can be a little bit confusing if you are trying to snap something to the grid 02:46.970 --> 02:50.040 underneath if that's what you are trying to do. 02:50.210 --> 02:56.540 What you can do is next to the magnet icon there's a dropdown and you want absolute grid snap. 02:56.540 --> 02:58.150 Now it won't matter. 02:58.190 --> 03:01.010 It will snap to the grid perfectly. 03:01.070 --> 03:05.530 Whether you're at this scale or a smaller scale as well. 03:05.600 --> 03:07.730 Now what's all the other options that are there. 03:07.730 --> 03:14.570 Well a vertex will snap to vertices edges to edges faces to faces and volume to volume all of them are 03:14.570 --> 03:16.760 pretty self-explanatory. 03:16.760 --> 03:22.040 Now the one that I find the most use while we're in object mode and we're not really editing anything 03:22.340 --> 03:23.910 is the vertex snapping. 03:24.050 --> 03:28.810 I'm going to click vertex snapping now and I'm not gonna adjust any of the other settings for the moment. 03:28.970 --> 03:32.650 I'm going to rotate the view around slightly so we can see what's going on. 03:32.730 --> 03:38.910 And I'm going to duplicate this cube snapping is turned on so it wasn't jerking all over the place. 03:39.020 --> 03:45.500 But what I can do now is press the G key and if I move my cursor over one of the four top corners you'll 03:45.500 --> 03:51.290 see that the cube is snapping to it but it looks the same on the back too and the front too so what's 03:51.290 --> 03:52.490 going on there. 03:52.490 --> 03:58.350 Well if you recall on these options the target was the closest. 03:58.490 --> 04:03.950 Now I'm leaving us as that's at the moment because that's the way that I like working out there like 04:03.950 --> 04:06.620 fiddling around with those options unnecessarily. 04:06.620 --> 04:10.020 But it also means that sometimes a lining can be a bit of a pain. 04:10.100 --> 04:17.090 So if I move this cube over this side and I wanted to make kind of a step staircase going up I could 04:17.090 --> 04:17.840 go G. 04:17.840 --> 04:20.430 And it was snap to this closest one. 04:20.450 --> 04:26.270 However for once the staircase going the other way up I would have to first move the cube over here 04:26.780 --> 04:31.670 click to set its new position and then go g and move it again back to here. 04:31.670 --> 04:35.570 If I tried it the other way First it will just stacked it on top. 04:35.720 --> 04:42.800 But you can see when we start doing things like this it becomes very quick to start building up a particular 04:42.800 --> 04:50.150 shape without it having to match the grid so far as to scale that cube slightly now I can start stacking 04:50.150 --> 04:53.370 things in a different way completely. 04:53.420 --> 04:59.720 And of course I need to move the cursor around occasionally to get things lined up as I'd expect them. 04:59.720 --> 05:02.910 So there we go we've got a new shape coming together really well. 05:02.960 --> 05:09.170 And if you're building something up out of cubes kind of like how you would do in a game like Minecraft 05:09.680 --> 05:16.100 the snapping tool is a godsend because it really does help you build your models really really quickly. 05:16.100 --> 05:23.500 Whether or not you're using increment or the vertex snapping option they're both really handy. 05:23.750 --> 05:24.310 And there we go. 05:24.310 --> 05:26.760 That concludes our introduction to the snapping tool. 05:26.870 --> 05:31.160 We use it much more later on and it's certainly something that you're going to be able to practice as 05:31.160 --> 05:33.620 we get towards the end of section challenge. 05:33.620 --> 05:36.170 But for now I'll see you in the next lecture.