WEBVTT 00:00.450 --> 00:03.160 Welcome to the blender layouts overview. 00:03.180 --> 00:07.120 Now this is one of these things that most people when they open up blender go. 00:07.130 --> 00:08.520 What do I do here. 00:08.560 --> 00:16.140 It is a very confusing interface it if you haven't used 3D modelling packages before and some of it 00:16.140 --> 00:17.430 isn't quite intuitive. 00:17.430 --> 00:18.260 But don't worry. 00:18.360 --> 00:20.240 We'll take you through it step by step now. 00:20.550 --> 00:26.430 So in this video blender looks the same on all platforms and this is great it does mean that whether 00:26.430 --> 00:33.900 you're working on the Mac APC or box running Linux it will look the same and you will see why that is. 00:33.900 --> 00:40.830 It's kind of his own self-contained environment so it doesn't use the file edit view tools window that 00:40.830 --> 00:45.060 you typically see on the top of most applications. 00:45.060 --> 00:49.500 I'll be going through how to switch in change layouts is a very cool feature where you can actually 00:49.500 --> 00:52.760 save a layout if you found one that you like working with. 00:52.920 --> 00:56.630 And of course you can immediately switch to it as well so that's very very powerful. 00:57.800 --> 01:02.600 Go through the main sections of the blend interface all the different window types you can have within 01:02.600 --> 01:09.680 this one interface and how to move and change Blender's layout is a very powerful tool and it's got 01:09.740 --> 01:15.140 lots of different variety that you can set up and of course we're all using different monitors sizes. 01:15.140 --> 01:19.820 Some of us are on the laptop some of us have got a whopping great big four K monitor in front of us 01:19.820 --> 01:24.670 so the way that you set up blender will be slightly differently based upon this. 01:24.910 --> 01:28.700 So further adieu let's hop on over into blender. 01:29.680 --> 01:34.180 So welcome back into blender and the first thing that we're going to cover in this and the next lecture 01:34.240 --> 01:35.440 is the layout. 01:35.440 --> 01:39.220 So we start with a brief overview of the lay out here to get you guys into it. 01:39.220 --> 01:44.350 It is a bit confusing for newcomers and old hats at 3D modelling. 01:44.350 --> 01:47.300 It is a complete unique interface. 01:48.990 --> 01:54.990 It allows massive amounts of customization which is where some of the confusion can come from because 01:54.990 --> 01:58.490 with all of that customization all that power that you have. 01:58.830 --> 02:03.030 We need to learn how to control that and before we get into the nitty gritty of modelling I know you're 02:03.030 --> 02:08.700 itching to start making stuff but let's make sure that we understand the tool that we're using a bit 02:08.700 --> 02:11.310 better before we dive in and start modelling. 02:11.310 --> 02:12.220 Trust me on this. 02:12.390 --> 02:15.660 If you can't control the interface it will bug you forever more. 02:15.810 --> 02:19.160 So let's come on and have a look at the general interface here. 02:19.320 --> 02:24.310 So the very top we can see this is file render view window help. 02:24.450 --> 02:30.220 And we've got this area here this is the phone now this whole area at the very top is an info header. 02:30.270 --> 02:31.080 We can change that. 02:31.080 --> 02:33.440 We can move it that's the power of blender. 02:33.450 --> 02:37.690 Unfortunately if we move it in hide it away it can be difficult to find again. 02:37.800 --> 02:41.730 But don't worry we'll go over how to resurrect missing frames. 02:41.970 --> 02:43.000 We need to. 02:43.260 --> 02:47.230 So we've got five frames or windows on this particular screen. 02:47.550 --> 02:49.150 We've got the info header at the top. 02:49.230 --> 02:52.580 This big one in the middle is the 3-d editor window. 02:52.590 --> 02:58.350 In fact if we hover over the head of bars icon on the left hand side we can see that it says the current 02:58.410 --> 03:00.600 editor type for this area is info. 03:01.020 --> 03:06.600 We go down here say the current ad to type is 3D view and then we can go down here and this will be 03:06.600 --> 03:07.850 time line. 03:07.860 --> 03:14.500 Now we've got two more on the right hand side here we've got outliner and we have properties. 03:14.670 --> 03:20.370 Now these icons themselves if we click on them they give us the option for all the other view types 03:20.370 --> 03:21.720 that we have in blender. 03:21.810 --> 03:26.820 So you can go ahead and change those you can even have two of the same if necessary. 03:26.820 --> 03:33.240 So later on in the course I definitely need to of these property windows for instance because they've 03:33.240 --> 03:38.070 got all of these tabs going across the top and occasionally I don't want to keep flicking backwards 03:38.100 --> 03:39.580 and forwards between two. 03:39.690 --> 03:46.620 An example earlier on in the course I might have two 3-d windows open so I can move this one up here 03:46.620 --> 03:48.690 using this split between the two. 03:48.690 --> 03:54.420 This horizontal line is also a vertical line that we can move to the left and right as well and obviously 03:54.420 --> 04:00.510 change this bottom one to a 3D view and then I can work on the same model from different angles or different 04:00.610 --> 04:03.630 viewpoints which is very very powerful. 04:03.660 --> 04:08.940 So I'll just pop that back to how it was and we can have a look at some of the other features as well. 04:10.630 --> 04:12.460 Now we can re size those. 04:12.460 --> 04:20.230 If we want to we can grab this vertical line that splits the two windows up and move it from left to 04:20.230 --> 04:24.080 right and you will find me doing that a lot in this course. 04:24.220 --> 04:28.710 I'm running it 720 P.S. You guys can see what I am doing with ease. 04:28.720 --> 04:32.930 Unfortunately that gets a bit cramped in how my particular screen. 04:33.070 --> 04:38.280 So I'm often moving things about hiding them etc. moving them backwards and forwards. 04:38.560 --> 04:43.800 So I will often hide this thing to one side and then pull it out again when I need to make some changes. 04:43.810 --> 04:47.140 I try and leave it static because obviously it takes up time moving things about. 04:47.260 --> 04:51.760 If you're working with a different monitor resolution bear in mind I'm at 720 P here. 04:51.790 --> 04:56.330 You could be at four k you know or even 5 K if you got one of those 5 K I max. 04:56.410 --> 05:03.340 So there's a vast array of sizes that we can work with in blender and of course each one of us will 05:03.340 --> 05:08.170 have a slightly different layer and we can customize this to our own desire. 05:08.170 --> 05:13.090 Now one of the most important things is before we start tweaking and moving things about is that your 05:13.090 --> 05:14.790 not working on the default layer. 05:14.800 --> 05:17.090 Otherwise you can't get back to it easily. 05:17.140 --> 05:21.400 So looking at the header bar again we can see here that it says the fault. 05:22.130 --> 05:24.480 That is the current view that we're working on. 05:24.590 --> 05:30.590 If I go to the drop down just to the left of the word default we can see that there is a series here 05:30.680 --> 05:32.870 of predefined views. 05:32.890 --> 05:38.690 If we go ahead and click on 3D full view we can see that we've got a completely different view to what 05:38.690 --> 05:45.320 we have before we can go to compositing And that's a different type of workflow essentially So it gives 05:45.320 --> 05:48.160 you some windows that are appropriate so that we can go to. 05:48.170 --> 05:51.650 I've made a couple here as well so got motion tracking as well. 05:51.800 --> 05:57.260 And to make something you simply find something that you is close so we can go back to the folx here 05:57.530 --> 06:02.900 we can find something that's close to what you want and hit the plus button once you hit that plus button 06:02.900 --> 06:10.100 we've added a new screen and we can name this whatever we'd like so I can just call this layout now 06:10.100 --> 06:13.880 that we've changed it's a lay out because that's what selected at the top there. 06:13.970 --> 06:20.250 We can change everything on this screen to our heart's content without worrying about overwriting that 06:20.260 --> 06:23.780 the fault lay out very very powerful. 06:23.780 --> 06:30.050 Now you'll notice that each of these areas has a header bar and every one of them apart from the info 06:30.710 --> 06:34.690 window has an actual window associated with that header. 06:34.700 --> 06:40.790 Now the info does actually have a another window if we click here we see that we get this double headed 06:40.790 --> 06:42.750 arrow with a line in between. 06:42.890 --> 06:47.590 On this break between the two windows and if I drag that down we can see here. 06:47.600 --> 06:51.820 It gives us almost like a console of what's happening in the background. 06:51.980 --> 06:55.360 Now often I will just hide that out of the way because it's not useful. 06:55.460 --> 07:00.910 However bringing that down can help it win win some sort of diagnostics later on. 07:00.990 --> 07:05.390 I'm going to now click and drag that back up and hide it out of the way. 07:05.510 --> 07:11.870 Now you can do that for all of the windows you can resize them and move them about with ease. 07:12.020 --> 07:17.550 You can also hide and move things that are part of that window so that the typical one. 07:17.570 --> 07:21.500 I see a lot and gets people is the header bar. 07:21.500 --> 07:26.660 You can actually hide the head above so you think that you're moving these windows and resizing them 07:26.660 --> 07:32.600 which is great but you accidentally do this and you can see Ivan instead of being at the bottom of the 07:32.600 --> 07:33.440 head by here. 07:33.590 --> 07:36.350 I'm actually at the top of the head and the arrow looks the same to you. 07:36.360 --> 07:39.120 Quickly glancy GA care one to move up. 07:39.410 --> 07:41.910 Where has my head a bar gone. 07:41.990 --> 07:43.010 Where you can get it back. 07:43.010 --> 07:48.470 There's a little place on the lower right hand side of that particular window or the upper right hand 07:48.470 --> 07:51.650 side if you move the header to the top machugh that a few moments. 07:51.950 --> 07:55.460 And if we click that plus the header bar reappears. 07:55.520 --> 08:01.100 Now if you work if you are working with limited space or you've changed the size of your windows here 08:01.400 --> 08:02.720 we can help collapse. 08:02.720 --> 08:10.010 These words the menu options on any header bar by right clicking on the header bar and collapsing menus. 08:10.010 --> 08:15.140 It then appears as these three lines here that we can click on and get to the same options that we had 08:15.140 --> 08:16.410 before. 08:16.480 --> 08:21.440 So I'm going to undo that for the moment by right clicking and undoing collapse menus. 08:21.440 --> 08:27.560 We've got phlip to top so we can actually put a header bar up the top of something which is traditionally 08:27.560 --> 08:30.590 where header bars would be they'll be at the top rather than the bottom. 08:30.620 --> 08:34.350 However wherever you do choose to put your header bars M.. 08:34.430 --> 08:35.990 I wouldn't swap about too often. 08:35.990 --> 08:42.920 We tend to focus on where things are not necessarily what they look like or what they've called. 08:42.920 --> 08:48.070 So if you go and move things about drastically it can actually slow your production down quite a bit 08:48.070 --> 08:52.280 casual your then having to relearned where things are now. 08:52.340 --> 08:56.870 We're going to focus on the 3D view briefly here and I'm going to show you about the tool shelf with 08:57.050 --> 09:02.210 which is this area of Us opened up on the left hand side here and on the right hand side there is a 09:02.210 --> 09:03.670 propertys panel. 09:03.690 --> 09:10.010 Now we can resize those and you may have to at any point of course if you resize it and make it too 09:10.010 --> 09:17.900 small it disappears and there is a plus and another plus on the top left and right of any window that's 09:17.900 --> 09:21.140 got these tall shelves and properties panels. 09:21.140 --> 09:28.590 So in this particular case I can make this bottom window larger and show you as well with a UVA image 09:28.600 --> 09:28.930 editor. 09:28.940 --> 09:33.230 I know that that type of window actually has what I missed. 09:33.230 --> 09:38.030 Click that that that particular window also has a plus at the top left and right which means it's got 09:38.030 --> 09:41.800 a tall shelf and a property's panel devoted to it. 09:42.110 --> 09:46.080 So we can click the pluses and make vose Appear. 09:46.160 --> 09:50.940 So there we go to shelf on the left hand side and the properties panel on the right. 09:50.990 --> 09:53.300 There's also a keyboard shortcut to do that. 09:53.420 --> 09:59.630 And with most keyboard shortcuts they apply to the window that your current cursor is over. 09:59.630 --> 10:03.770 So for instance the tool shelf the shortcut key is the letter T. 10:04.100 --> 10:09.110 So if we go ahead and press t whilst were over the U.S. image editor you can see that it's enabling 10:09.110 --> 10:10.670 the tool shelf on there. 10:10.670 --> 10:14.600 I'm going to continue pressing to move my cursor up to this window. 10:14.630 --> 10:16.160 I haven't clicked on anything. 10:16.160 --> 10:21.440 It's just the where my cursor is and a common mistake is trying to do an operation. 10:22.080 --> 10:24.200 And your cursor has drifted off the window. 10:24.200 --> 10:25.220 You're working on. 10:25.220 --> 10:31.760 And of course the Keys your pressing blender is quite key heavy you're not actually controlling the 10:31.760 --> 10:33.970 window you thought you were controlling. 10:33.970 --> 10:37.140 Now the property side you can control that with the N.. 10:37.580 --> 10:43.910 Now depending on the screen space you have you can obviously leave these open all the time you'll find 10:43.910 --> 10:48.920 that I open and shut them quite a bit in order to give myself a bit more space so I can show you guys 10:48.920 --> 10:49.580 what I'm doing. 10:49.700 --> 10:53.600 But again I'll try and minimize that as much as possible. 10:53.630 --> 10:58.840 So now we've had a brief layout overview I'd like you to just play with it for a bit. 10:58.850 --> 11:00.990 So I've got a small challenge for you. 11:02.930 --> 11:03.490 Okay guys. 11:03.500 --> 11:05.150 I'd like you to play with the layout. 11:05.290 --> 11:11.040 Now of course what I'd like you to do his is make your own layout move the windows about hide some head 11:11.060 --> 11:11.690 bars. 11:11.690 --> 11:14.560 Just get used to the general feeling of what's going on. 11:14.640 --> 11:19.650 Ultrarich change window types and sizes and see how how that all pans out. 11:19.760 --> 11:25.460 Now this may seem like a very very simple task if you've used these sorts of applications before but 11:25.460 --> 11:26.110 it's great. 11:26.120 --> 11:30.020 Justin grain that knowledge and make sure that you have it absolutely no doubt. 11:30.150 --> 11:32.710 So balls the video now and give that a go. 11:36.040 --> 11:36.730 Okay guys. 11:36.730 --> 11:37.630 Welcome back. 11:37.630 --> 11:42.770 So let's go and play with the lay out over in blender to give you an idea of what we can do. 11:45.390 --> 11:47.120 Okay so we're back over in blender here. 11:47.120 --> 11:50.870 And so straightaway we can play with the size of windows. 11:50.870 --> 11:57.170 Now depending on as I say on the screen that you've got being able to take control every size the windows 11:57.170 --> 12:03.830 that you have in front of you or even hide certain parts of them and give yourself more space is a great 12:03.890 --> 12:04.280 boon. 12:04.280 --> 12:06.750 We really want to be able to master this interface. 12:06.830 --> 12:10.700 We'll go over creating some new windows in the next lecture. 12:10.710 --> 12:16.700 But in this one I just want to take control and make sure I got real make sure I have control over the 12:16.700 --> 12:19.220 basics so I can hide those header bars. 12:19.220 --> 12:24.100 Now somebody said these buzz of course if you go and hide them you just cause yourself more grief. 12:24.180 --> 12:29.660 But at in some cases it's very easy to accidentally hide them like you think you're moving one of these 12:29.660 --> 12:32.270 up and down and you don't even do that. 12:32.270 --> 12:37.340 And it can also be very confusing of course if it looks something like this where it looks like we've 12:37.340 --> 12:44.060 just got the one window here with a 3D view and a 3D head bar badgerly is a 3D view without a head a 12:44.060 --> 12:47.680 bar and a 3D view without a window into the actual 3D view itself. 12:47.690 --> 12:53.840 So that's one of those things that I have seen people have an issue with in the past is as great to 12:53.840 --> 13:00.040 make sure that you guys will not suffer the same fate if you accidentally hide your head a bar of air. 13:00.290 --> 13:00.890 Okay brilliant. 13:00.890 --> 13:06.410 I hope you guys are getting the feel and the control of Blender's lay out and in the next lecture will 13:06.410 --> 13:10.660 be going through how to master it and do the advance controls on this layout as well. 13:10.760 --> 13:15.510 And now we've absolutely nailed the layout and we can start making some 3D models. 13:15.710 --> 13:19.860 So congratulations guys and I will see you in the next lecture.