WEBVTT 00:01.320 --> 00:05.460 Welcome to control interfaces in this video. 00:05.460 --> 00:10.050 We're going to talk about keyboards mice and the general interface that blender has as well. 00:10.050 --> 00:11.440 So first of all keyboards. 00:11.550 --> 00:17.510 Well if you have a Mac then the F keys on your Mac at the top. 00:17.530 --> 00:23.050 One two three etc. you're going to have to hold down the function button wherever it be on a laptop. 00:23.040 --> 00:30.180 It's usually on the lower left of your keyboard if you've got a full size keyboard it's above the cursor 00:30.180 --> 00:31.280 keys in the middle. 00:31.560 --> 00:35.570 So that's something to remember and also it's not only Macs that suffer from this. 00:35.610 --> 00:41.040 Some laptops also require the function key now to control those f numbers at the top. 00:41.040 --> 00:43.340 And those are used throughout blender. 00:43.350 --> 00:53.190 If you decide to use the keyboard shortcuts now on Linux the Alt key is used as a system key so when 00:53.220 --> 00:58.620 ever you see me holding down Alz and you need to use that you're probably going to have the whole down 00:58.620 --> 01:01.030 the Windows key Dack at the same time. 01:01.140 --> 01:05.230 In order for it to work as expected within blender. 01:05.910 --> 01:10.890 What happens if you've got no number pad will in a moment we'll go over into blender and enable number 01:10.890 --> 01:14.400 pad emulation and I will show you what impact that has. 01:14.400 --> 01:17.550 Because obviously you're going to lose some other functionality. 01:17.550 --> 01:25.790 The moment we do this you will also find on maxson Linux system keys sometimes override blender shortcut 01:25.800 --> 01:30.900 keys and blender is really short quite heavy so don't be surprised that if you use a shortcut key that 01:30.900 --> 01:35.950 I show you if you're on a mackall index and it does something unexpected not only to blender. 01:35.980 --> 01:37.680 Perhaps perhaps the entire computer. 01:37.680 --> 01:39.440 So just bear that in mind. 01:39.450 --> 01:41.250 If you're using those platforms. 01:42.080 --> 01:49.010 Let's talk about mice quickly so I would strongly recommend a three button mouse but I will be going 01:49.010 --> 01:53.690 through how to use Blender without a three button mouse so the examples there would be if you're on 01:53.690 --> 01:54.520 a laptop. 01:54.740 --> 02:00.110 So you're going to be using a track pad or maybe even a stylus as well so there's lots of options there 02:00.110 --> 02:01.070 for us. 02:01.070 --> 02:07.310 I still highly recommend the three button mouse and a full size keyboard where ever possible. 02:07.310 --> 02:11.470 Later on you may if you've not got one already you may consider a stylus. 02:11.510 --> 02:16.670 If you really get into blender and you want to start doing more art work at all of these things are 02:16.670 --> 02:22.160 just different tools for us to do our work with and a stylus is really good for drawing and sketching 02:22.160 --> 02:26.390 and things like that and the mouse is a bit crude when it comes to that but for everything else we do 02:26.390 --> 02:27.220 in blender. 02:27.380 --> 02:31.310 A normal three button mouse will be absolutely fine. 02:31.340 --> 02:36.110 Blender's visuals what we're going to go through blender and see that you can change the appearance 02:36.110 --> 02:37.730 of Blender which is very powerful. 02:37.730 --> 02:42.210 You can personalize the interface and make it easier for you to see. 02:42.230 --> 02:48.200 Not everybody's got 2020 vision and blender gives us because of its unique entry interface it gives 02:48.200 --> 02:52.420 us a unique opportunity to just completely change how it looks. 02:52.670 --> 02:57.190 So now we've gone over that let's go explore these things and hop on over into blender. 03:03.670 --> 03:06.750 Hello everybody and welcome on over into blender. 03:06.760 --> 03:12.700 This is a replacement video we've now just had the release of two point seven nine and some things have 03:12.700 --> 03:17.590 changed so hopefully I'll be able to cover everything in this lecture that will get you going. 03:17.590 --> 03:23.800 The first thing I want to cover is for those that have high resolution screens you may find blender 03:24.010 --> 03:28.210 is just not visible Everything's really tiny on it so let's deal with that. 03:28.210 --> 03:31.790 First of all now this used to be called System DP. 03:31.810 --> 03:35.710 But no longer is it called that is simply called display scale. 03:35.730 --> 03:41.080 Now in order to get there we need to go to the File menu and we can go down to user preferences. 03:41.080 --> 03:48.490 Now you can see on a PCV shortcuts a control alt and you on a Mac that's probably command out and you 03:48.780 --> 03:52.810 but it's just there and the shortcut keys are written there as well. 03:52.810 --> 03:56.550 You notice that the shortcut keys are written over in a lot of places. 03:56.560 --> 04:02.740 Now we have the blender user preferences up and at the top there's a series of tabs that cover different 04:02.740 --> 04:04.580 parts of blender. 04:04.630 --> 04:09.490 If we go to the interface tab you can see there's an option here for display. 04:09.520 --> 04:15.040 This is incredibly useful because it does mean that if you perhaps can't see clearly on your screen 04:15.040 --> 04:19.870 perhaps it's too small or the resolution of your screen is really high we're starting to get a lot of 04:19.870 --> 04:23.710 computers that have four case screens or even higher these days. 04:23.710 --> 04:27.550 But using this scale slider we can make everything a lot bigger. 04:27.550 --> 04:28.960 How's about that. 04:29.020 --> 04:31.310 Of course that's probably too big for me. 04:31.360 --> 04:32.890 So I would scale it back down again. 04:32.890 --> 04:37.840 In fact if you have really good eyesight you may want to make the interface really really small like 04:37.840 --> 04:38.470 that. 04:38.710 --> 04:39.960 Whatever your preference. 04:39.970 --> 04:45.650 You can tweak it to your heart's desire and get the appropriate amount of set that back to one. 04:45.700 --> 04:47.710 You can type in these fields as well. 04:47.710 --> 04:48.690 By the way there we go. 04:48.700 --> 04:50.440 You can set it to one. 04:50.860 --> 04:57.040 Now the next thing I want to cover was were inside the blender user preferences is if you dont have 04:57.070 --> 04:58.350 a number pad. 04:58.660 --> 05:03.580 Now if you dont have a number pad it can be incredibly infuriating trying to see your model from the 05:03.580 --> 05:05.430 side the top the bottom. 05:05.560 --> 05:10.360 And a lot of laptops and even some computers these days come with keyboards without thats square number 05:10.360 --> 05:12.240 pad on the right hand side. 05:12.280 --> 05:17.020 If youve got it great if you have an oil you dont want to use that number had on the side. 05:17.050 --> 05:22.540 We can repurpose the one to 0 keys across the top of the keyboard and for that we don't need to go to 05:22.540 --> 05:24.050 the input tab. 05:24.190 --> 05:28.740 If you go ahead and click on inputs we can see there's a couple of options as we go down. 05:28.780 --> 05:32.440 One of them is emulate a three button mouse and we'll get to that in a moment. 05:32.440 --> 05:35.040 And then further down we have emulate number pad. 05:35.140 --> 05:40.690 If you go ahead and click on that's what you will then find is the numbers across the top of the keyboard 05:40.930 --> 05:45.250 which are usually devoted to layer changes which we'll talk about later on in the course. 05:45.370 --> 05:48.980 Will now control the actual view itself. 05:49.150 --> 05:54.760 Now I'm going to go ahead and click save use the settings the moment you click save use the settings. 05:54.860 --> 06:01.470 It then applies to every other future blend file that you open and close down the use of preferences. 06:01.570 --> 06:07.630 And now when I press one two three four five you can see that it changes our view around the cube and 06:07.630 --> 06:11.110 then with the middle mouse button I can rotate round. 06:11.110 --> 06:14.320 Now what happens if we don't have a mouse with you. 06:14.440 --> 06:17.530 Well this is where you can emulate three butts and mouse. 06:17.530 --> 06:22.210 Now most people these days do have a three button mouse but perhaps youve got a track pad you want to 06:22.210 --> 06:22.810 use. 06:22.930 --> 06:29.450 And Im going to try and use my trackpad now so two fingers on this track pad I can zoom in and out. 06:29.510 --> 06:30.970 Lets see if I can pan around. 06:30.970 --> 06:33.220 No I can't easily pan round. 06:33.220 --> 06:35.430 I can grab bits and move it's about. 06:35.530 --> 06:37.900 This is infuriating on the trackpad. 06:37.930 --> 06:42.980 So one of the things I would impress upon you is to go ahead and get yourself a three button mouse. 06:43.000 --> 06:45.080 It's incredibly useful to have one. 06:45.160 --> 06:51.580 So you don't get frustrated when using blender However you can go in and emulate a three buttons mouse 06:51.610 --> 06:54.370 that's in the user preferences under inputs. 06:54.460 --> 06:57.580 Emulate three button mouse save user settings. 06:57.580 --> 07:04.120 You can now use the modifier keys control shift and also in various ways to spin around your model to 07:04.120 --> 07:06.250 pan left them right. 07:06.430 --> 07:09.820 We can see there and there we go with rotating round the shift key. 07:09.820 --> 07:15.310 Now in general I would still not recommend using these functions. 07:15.310 --> 07:18.600 It can be incredibly difficult to get the hang of them. 07:18.610 --> 07:24.790 And of course you may be using a track pad but doesn't have multi touch and that severely limits your 07:24.790 --> 07:26.960 ability to control yourself. 07:26.980 --> 07:27.870 In blender. 07:29.020 --> 07:30.730 Now was we're in the user preferences. 07:30.730 --> 07:32.530 Let's just go back there again. 07:32.560 --> 07:40.030 There are some other things you can do and themes so you can make your entire blender layout different 07:40.360 --> 07:44.020 so we can click on the themes tab and there's a series of presets here. 07:44.020 --> 07:49.960 Now if you struggle seeing or you just want a different preset you can go ahead and use that so I can 07:49.960 --> 07:51.790 just go ahead and let's pick a hexagon. 07:51.790 --> 07:58.900 You can see changes the overall look of blender and we can do slight and then the low to different ones 07:58.930 --> 08:05.710 along here that you may want to use so this back to black is incredibly useful if you often work late 08:05.770 --> 08:10.870 into the evening and you don't want a lot of light coming from your monitor apart from what you need 08:10.870 --> 08:12.550 to focus on your model. 08:12.590 --> 08:17.020 Now I will be sticking with the default theme through out this course. 08:17.020 --> 08:20.460 So it just looks the same to everybody. 08:20.590 --> 08:22.120 So we go back to default. 08:22.120 --> 08:23.270 There we go. 08:23.320 --> 08:25.360 You can change so much in here. 08:25.430 --> 08:30.430 And remember once you've done it you can go ahead and click save use the settings and it will remember 08:30.430 --> 08:32.840 those settings for later on. 08:33.040 --> 08:37.630 Now I will cover some of the other blender user preferences that you will might you might want to use 08:37.660 --> 08:39.400 in the course later on. 08:39.400 --> 08:41.700 However for the moment I'm going to leave it at that. 08:41.800 --> 08:44.230 And what we can do here is go to a file. 08:44.270 --> 08:45.180 This does look different. 08:45.180 --> 08:47.720 This isn't the default that was on there before. 08:47.770 --> 08:51.930 So I'm going to go ahead and because I've not really changed anything yet. 08:52.050 --> 08:55.680 I'm going to load factory settings. 08:55.720 --> 08:59.750 Now what this does is it resets blender completely back to default. 08:59.770 --> 09:02.380 How it was before when you first started it. 09:02.530 --> 09:09.280 Now this is great in this experimental stage where you have not used blender before and you're just 09:09.280 --> 09:10.260 playing about with things. 09:10.330 --> 09:18.280 But do use that with caution because if you go ahead and do that and then save your start up file you 09:18.280 --> 09:24.550 may find you've overwritten a load of changes that you've made that you actually wanted to keep. 09:24.790 --> 09:30.010 So in this instance because I've replaced my numbers across the top if I was to go ahead and save that 09:30.010 --> 09:38.870 start-up file and then go back to user preferences we would actually see the under the input tab. 09:38.890 --> 09:44.560 I'm no longer emulating the number that I'm gonna put a tick in that and save my user settings and now 09:44.590 --> 09:46.340 that's all set up ready to go. 09:46.350 --> 09:52.780 Going to go here and go save my start-up file and that means that every time I open up blender it will 09:52.780 --> 09:54.750 look like this. 09:54.820 --> 09:59.070 So what I can do here of course so I can drag this bit out on the side. 09:59.110 --> 10:01.920 Therefore I don't have to scroll horizontally any more. 10:02.020 --> 10:02.830 And there we go. 10:02.830 --> 10:07.610 Now I can go over to the file save start-up file. 10:07.660 --> 10:11.510 Remember you do actually need to click that next item that comes up this one says. 10:11.530 --> 10:17.960 Okay this little dialogue box here and we can see there's a shortcut V key there control in New ones 10:17.980 --> 10:23.020 I've saved my starter file that means the next time I start up blender it will look exactly as it does 10:23.020 --> 10:24.060 now. 10:24.060 --> 10:24.680 Brilliant. 10:24.850 --> 10:28.230 That's it for this lecture and I will see will in the next one.