WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.766 Welcome to Zoom to Mouse & Rotate 2 00:00:02.766 --> 00:00:06.766 Around Selection! So in this video these two 3 00:00:06.766 --> 00:00:10.766 are great for working around more complex scenes, 4 00:00:10.766 --> 00:00:14.766 as our chess board is slowly becoming. Now, we are changing 5 00:00:14.766 --> 00:00:18.766 the user preferences with this, so if you wanted this to apply 6 00:00:18.766 --> 00:00:22.766 again and again and again to all of the models you're creating, you will need to 7 00:00:22.766 --> 00:00:26.766 remember to save your user preferences, otherwise they won't update. 8 00:00:26.766 --> 00:00:30.766 And we're going to demonstrate both Zoom to Mouse and Rotate Around 9 00:00:30.766 --> 00:00:34.766 Selection and also some other view options that are available, 10 00:00:34.766 --> 00:00:38.766 because you can get in a bit of a muddle when you're using 11 00:00:38.766 --> 00:00:42.766 these two, or in fact, just in general when you're zooming in and out 12 00:00:42.766 --> 00:00:46.766 of a model. You may come to a point where you can't zoom any further and 13 00:00:46.766 --> 00:00:50.766 that is really irritating, and we'll show you some ways to get around that. 14 00:00:50.766 --> 00:00:54.233 So let's hop straight on over into Blender! 15 00:00:54.233 --> 00:00:58.233 So the first thing that I want to do is just pull the Outliner 16 00:00:58.233 --> 00:01:02.233 back in, slightly, so we can see more of our 3D view. Now, 17 00:01:02.233 --> 00:01:06.233 by default, when you hold down the Middle Mouse Button and rotate around, it usually 18 00:01:06.233 --> 00:01:10.233 rotates around the center of our scene, which is the center of the board, in this case, 19 00:01:10.233 --> 00:01:14.233 where X, Y, and Z all equal 0. And zooming is also 20 00:01:14.233 --> 00:01:18.233 done to that, until you move the viewport and 21 00:01:18.233 --> 00:01:22.233 pan around, and then, we can zoom back in. Now, there are better ways 22 00:01:22.233 --> 00:01:24.066 of doing that. 23 00:01:24.066 --> 00:01:25.633 So go to File 24 00:01:25.766 --> 00:01:29.300 and go into your User Preferences, and under the 25 00:01:29.300 --> 00:01:33.300 Interface, the second column has View Manipulation. 26 00:01:33.300 --> 00:01:37.300 And there are two options, which by default are unticked, which are 27 00:01:37.300 --> 00:01:41.300 Zoom To Mouse Position and Rotate Around Selection. 28 00:01:41.300 --> 00:01:45.300 If we turn both of those on and Save our User Settings, 29 00:01:45.300 --> 00:01:49.300 we can hop back into Blender, and all of a sudden, 30 00:01:49.300 --> 00:01:53.300 you can see zooming, for instance, is dependent on where 31 00:01:53.300 --> 00:01:57.300 our cursor is. So if I put it over one of these other pawn's 32 00:01:57.300 --> 00:02:01.300 heads and zoom in, it will zoom towards there. Now, that is incredibly 33 00:02:01.300 --> 00:02:05.300 powerful, when you're working on other models! Rotation, however, 34 00:02:05.300 --> 00:02:09.300 will be around the selected model, in this case. Now, 35 00:02:09.300 --> 00:02:13.300 you'll want to play with this and see if it suits you or not. If you find it's 36 00:02:13.300 --> 00:02:17.300 not suiting you and you'd rather go back to the other system, then that's fine, 37 00:02:17.300 --> 00:02:21.300 you turn those off. These are all view options, i.e. 38 00:02:21.300 --> 00:02:25.300 they're optional. Occasionally, you can end up with some weird stuff 39 00:02:25.300 --> 00:02:29.300 going on. So I've zoomed into this one here and I'm going to rotate around, 40 00:02:29.300 --> 00:02:33.300 and if I wanted to go to this one on the end, you won't go very far before 41 00:02:33.300 --> 00:02:37.300 your zoom runs out, which is a little bit annoying. There are a couple of 42 00:02:37.300 --> 00:02:41.300 ways around that though, and usually it involves resetting 43 00:02:41.300 --> 00:02:45.300 the viewport itself to another place. And 44 00:02:45.300 --> 00:02:49.300 one of the easiest ways to do that is, select another object, so I've selected 45 00:02:49.300 --> 00:02:53.300 this bishop, over in the corner, going down to View, and 46 00:02:53.300 --> 00:02:57.300 going to View Selected or Numberpad and the full stop on the Numberpad, 47 00:02:57.300 --> 00:03:01.300 if you've got a full size keyboard. And you can see, it puts our bishop, 48 00:03:01.300 --> 00:03:05.300 the selected object, in the center of our viewport, 49 00:03:05.300 --> 00:03:09.300 and then, because we've got Rotate Around the Selected turned on, 50 00:03:09.300 --> 00:03:13.300 we can rotate around there and edit to our hearts content! A 51 00:03:13.300 --> 00:03:17.300 couple of other ways of getting out that and very useful to go through your 52 00:03:17.300 --> 00:03:21.300 scene if necessary is one that's called the Viewport Dolly 53 00:03:21.300 --> 00:03:25.300 and one is Walk or Fly Mode. Very exciting! So what 54 00:03:25.300 --> 00:03:29.300 are they? Well first of all, let's rotate around, let's go to this 55 00:03:29.300 --> 00:03:33.300 bishop... No that's a pawn isn't it? Let's go to the pawn on the end and zoom into it. 56 00:03:33.300 --> 00:03:37.300 We've run out of zoom again, so I'm [Laughs] going to go to View and View Selected. Great! 57 00:03:37.300 --> 00:03:41.300 I'm going to rotate around, slightly, so I'm looking down, and I've got to remember it's perspective, 58 00:03:41.300 --> 00:03:45.300 I'm going to pan across a little. So the Viewport Dolly is 59 00:03:45.300 --> 00:03:49.300 very effective, in the way that it enables us to go down 60 00:03:49.300 --> 00:03:53.300 our scene, by moving the viewport rather 61 00:03:53.300 --> 00:03:57.300 than zooming in and out. So if we hold down Shift and 62 00:03:57.300 --> 00:04:01.300 Control at the same time or Control and Shift, it doesn't matter which order, 63 00:04:01.300 --> 00:04:05.300 and hold down the Mouse Button and move it in and out, we can go backwards 64 00:04:05.300 --> 00:04:09.300 and forwards down our scene, which is 65 00:04:09.300 --> 00:04:13.300 really really good; if you imagine these were buildings and you're walking down the street or indeed 66 00:04:13.300 --> 00:04:17.300 this mouse eye view of our chess board. If you 67 00:04:17.300 --> 00:04:21.300 hit the Control well, you'll notice is rotates around, 68 00:04:21.300 --> 00:04:25.300 and if you hold down Alt, instead of Control, it rotates and pivots 69 00:04:25.300 --> 00:04:29.300 the other way. So a couple of useful things there! The final one 70 00:04:29.300 --> 00:04:33.300 is what's called Walk or Fly Mode, and 71 00:04:33.300 --> 00:04:37.300 whether it's Walk or Fly is determined in the User Preferences. I'll show you where that 72 00:04:37.300 --> 00:04:41.300 is now! So under File, User Preferences, under 73 00:04:41.300 --> 00:04:45.300 I believe it's Input, and scroll down. 74 00:04:45.300 --> 00:04:49.300 Here we go, View Navigation! We've got Walk and 75 00:04:49.300 --> 00:04:53.300 Fly! OK, so we're set to Walk, at the moment, let's see what that does! 76 00:04:53.300 --> 00:04:57.300 Shift and F will enable that and we can see a crosshair, 77 00:04:57.300 --> 00:05:01.300 and if we use the W, S, A, and D 78 00:05:01.300 --> 00:05:05.300 keys, much like a first person shooter, and the 79 00:05:05.300 --> 00:05:09.300 Q and E goes up and down. We can move through our scene quite easily! 80 00:05:09.300 --> 00:05:13.300 Now, the other option, Fly, is a little harder to control 81 00:05:13.300 --> 00:05:17.300 but is a little more versatile. So I'm going to Escape out 82 00:05:17.300 --> 00:05:21.300 of that and go to File, User Preferences, and 83 00:05:21.300 --> 00:05:25.300 just change that quickly to Fly mode and close that down. 84 00:05:25.300 --> 00:05:29.300 Now, when we go Shift and F to enable Fly Mode, 85 00:05:29.300 --> 00:05:33.300 it's ever so slightly different. So our cursor enables us 86 00:05:33.300 --> 00:05:37.300 to move around, and the further we stray from that center point, 87 00:05:37.300 --> 00:05:41.300 the quicker the view moves. And we can move forward by pressing W, 88 00:05:41.300 --> 00:05:45.300 and then, the Scroll Wheel itself speeds us up 89 00:05:45.300 --> 00:05:49.300 and slows us down, in fact, it pops us in reverse, as well. and 90 00:05:49.300 --> 00:05:53.300 Very quickly, you can start panning around your model with 91 00:05:53.300 --> 00:05:57.300 quite a bit of precision, and this is great, but it can 92 00:05:57.300 --> 00:06:01.300 get a bit... [Laughs] Whoah, there we go! It can get a bit cumbersome, 93 00:06:01.300 --> 00:06:02.033 at times, 94 00:06:02.033 --> 00:06:03.966 but once you get control 95 00:06:03.966 --> 00:06:07.966 over this, it's very very powerful! And you've got two options here, 96 00:06:07.966 --> 00:06:11.966 if I want this to be our current view I can hit Enter. If I hit 97 00:06:11.966 --> 00:06:15.966 Escape, it'll go back to the previous view. So if I hit Escape, it's going 98 00:06:15.966 --> 00:06:19.966 back to where we started. If I just quickly move us around a little 99 00:06:19.966 --> 00:06:23.966 more, it doesn't really matter where, let's come to a stop and look up at 100 00:06:23.966 --> 00:06:27.966 our ever so tall bishop. Ooh, I've gone through the floor! As I said, it can be a little 101 00:06:27.966 --> 00:06:31.966 bit cumbersome. If I hit Enter, that is our new view, and if I 102 00:06:31.966 --> 00:06:35.966 select that, because we've got rotation on, there we go it's back to center. 103 00:06:35.966 --> 00:06:38.200 so, great fun to be had there! 104 00:06:38.200 --> 00:06:41.200 OK, so a quick summary of the View 105 00:06:41.200 --> 00:06:45.200 Options there! So you can use the View, View Selected, in order to 106 00:06:45.200 --> 00:06:49.200 zoom in to the particular object or objects you 107 00:06:49.200 --> 00:06:53.200 have selected. You can control the view in a View Dolly, 108 00:06:53.200 --> 00:06:57.200 by holding down Control and Shift and using the Middle Mouse Button to Dolly 109 00:06:57.200 --> 00:07:01.200 along the view you have, and you can also use Control and Shift 110 00:07:01.200 --> 00:07:05.200 plus the + and - keys to do that. And finally, Walk or Fly Mode, 111 00:07:05.200 --> 00:07:09.200 using Shift and F, adds a whole new dimension to moving 112 00:07:09.200 --> 00:07:13.200 around your object. I particularly like flying through, even though it 113 00:07:13.200 --> 00:07:15.000 is a bit cumbersome. 114 00:07:15.100 --> 00:07:19.100 OK, so a quick challenge for you guys, and that is try out 115 00:07:19.100 --> 00:07:23.100 the View Options! So go through what we've just done, have fun 116 00:07:23.100 --> 00:07:27.100 with the View Options, try a couple of the different options that you have there, 117 00:07:27.100 --> 00:07:31.100 and if I haven't said options enough, stick with what you 118 00:07:31.100 --> 00:07:35.100 like! They are options, OK, you don't have to have them set 119 00:07:35.100 --> 00:07:39.100 exactly the same as me. However, if you see me rotating around an object 120 00:07:39.100 --> 00:07:43.100 and you're wondering, how are you doing that when it's over there, you now know 121 00:07:43.100 --> 00:07:47.100 why it's set like that, so I can quickly zoom in and out 122 00:07:47.100 --> 00:07:51.100 of my scene and rotate around selected objects. 123 00:07:51.100 --> 00:07:55.100 So pause the video now, give that a go, and have some fun! 124 00:07:56.033 --> 00:07:58.433 OK, welcome back! I hope you 125 00:07:58.433 --> 00:08:02.433 had fun playing about with those options! Remember if you have any 126 00:08:02.433 --> 00:08:06.433 questions to ask in the discussions, and I will see you in the next lecture!