WEBVTT 00:05.070 --> 00:11.220 Hello everybody and welcome to this lecture on using groups now using groups a great organization and 00:11.220 --> 00:15.270 it's also great for moving multiple items from one blend file to another. 00:15.270 --> 00:20.280 So just to highlight the issue that we have at the moment when we've created our chess scene so we go 00:20.280 --> 00:27.300 ahead and go file an append in a blank and brand new blender file and then go all I've already been 00:27.300 --> 00:31.030 here so let's just skip back to what you'd see you go to your project folder. 00:31.230 --> 00:36.520 We'd go to in this case the low poly chess set and I've got two files there that I could pick from to 00:36.520 --> 00:42.240 kind of pick one of them and you're presented with a series of options a series of folders here so we 00:42.240 --> 00:47.340 can import materials we can import meche objects or mesh data in a mesh objects. 00:47.370 --> 00:52.770 So I mean what happens if we go and grab the white pieces do all of the white pieces that are associated 00:52.770 --> 00:54.340 with that come across. 00:54.360 --> 00:54.990 No. 00:55.380 --> 00:56.040 No they do not. 00:56.040 --> 01:02.130 So this is one of these places where like well I dont really want to drag each individual one across 01:02.130 --> 01:06.960 and I dont want to save as with the chessboard and try and move things about and it just basically gets 01:06.960 --> 01:09.850 very complicated and very confusing if youre not careful. 01:10.020 --> 01:15.390 So if we go ahead now and open up our chess scene and here we go weve got a lovely chess scene here 01:15.660 --> 01:20.850 what we can go ahead and do and I can do this really quickly because Ive already group them in the hierarchy 01:21.120 --> 01:26.240 and Im going to make sure before I selected him we got the black pieces the chessboard the white pieces. 01:26.250 --> 01:26.720 Okay. 01:26.790 --> 01:31.410 So I think all of the mesh objects I care about are under the empty board and pieces which allows me 01:31.410 --> 01:33.310 to move in a chessboard around. 01:33.540 --> 01:39.960 And what I can then do is hold down control as I click that and it will select everything thats underneath 01:39.970 --> 01:42.440 that hierarchy which is incredibly useful. 01:42.630 --> 01:45.260 The next thing I want to do is create a group out of this. 01:45.270 --> 01:50.520 I'm just going to call it chessboard when I get there but I can go down to the object menu and then 01:50.520 --> 01:59.340 we have a group and then create a new group and you can even later on add a selected item to the active 01:59.340 --> 02:03.760 group so lets go ahead and add create in this case a new group. 02:03.930 --> 02:06.640 And youll notice everything has this green outline. 02:07.020 --> 02:10.530 Now in the lower left before I do anything else I dont want to click away. 02:10.530 --> 02:12.240 There is an operator panel down there. 02:12.240 --> 02:14.400 Its just gotten really small. 02:14.400 --> 02:21.690 The name of this group Well lets name it chess board and let's see what happens then when we go ahead 02:21.930 --> 02:22.940 and try to append. 02:22.950 --> 02:29.390 Obviously remember to save your work first then new file and then lets go ahead and append. 02:29.790 --> 02:34.600 And again it remembers where we were before and now if we have a look were in the chess scene blend 02:34.630 --> 02:39.800 but now we have this group folder which means we can go and grab the chess board and append it from 02:39.810 --> 02:45.210 library and there we go we've got the full chessboard ready to rock and roll straight away without having 02:45.210 --> 02:47.070 to worry about anything else. 02:47.070 --> 02:48.350 How awesome is that. 02:48.390 --> 02:53.910 You've immediately been able to now bring everything that you've constructed in another scene all into 02:53.910 --> 02:57.390 one place and this is great that enables you to make a model. 02:57.390 --> 03:01.680 In this case a chess board in isolation and then bring it all in. 03:01.770 --> 03:07.470 Everything across in one fell swoop rather than having to worry about everything else but also even 03:07.470 --> 03:10.710 better than that grouping remains president. 03:10.710 --> 03:15.610 After you've moved it in so you can still organise a new scene really well. 03:15.900 --> 03:19.410 Okay so the next question of course is how do we manage this group. 03:19.410 --> 03:23.740 How do we go ahead and say well all of these need to be. 03:24.060 --> 03:29.280 How do I select everything in that group is one question because obviously grouping is an organizational 03:29.280 --> 03:30.130 thing. 03:30.150 --> 03:30.870 Now what do I do. 03:30.870 --> 03:35.640 Well you can see that when things are a group they've got this green outline which helps you understand 03:36.050 --> 03:40.460 let's say we want to move this and say this is a stand for our chess set. 03:40.470 --> 03:41.190 There we go. 03:41.340 --> 03:46.440 And we want to add that to this group as well that's part of this current scene and we want it part 03:46.440 --> 03:47.660 of this group over here. 03:47.940 --> 03:52.770 Well in order to do that and in order to start managing some groups now we've appended this into a new 03:52.770 --> 03:53.300 scene. 03:53.370 --> 03:58.880 If you go to the object properties tab which is a little orange cube and then we can go down and two 03:58.880 --> 04:03.810 we find groups and we can add it to a group and there's already a group that exists chessboard. 04:04.170 --> 04:07.290 And now we can add it to that chessboard group so that's great. 04:07.290 --> 04:12.630 We've now got everything in this group on there but how do I go ahead and select everything that is 04:12.630 --> 04:13.280 grouped. 04:13.470 --> 04:18.720 Well if we hold down Shift and Angier brings up a very big list and you can see all of the different 04:18.720 --> 04:24.660 groups that can exist and this is one of the reasons why there's just not a simple way of accessing 04:24.690 --> 04:26.400 these groups straightaway. 04:26.400 --> 04:31.270 So we wanted to say what is this part of shift in a select group. 04:31.440 --> 04:33.090 What part of a group is it. 04:33.090 --> 04:37.980 We can also select things that are all on the same layer select things that all of the same type all 04:37.980 --> 04:40.830 have the same pair and all have the same colour et cetera et cetera. 04:40.830 --> 04:43.290 There's many you can pick from at this point. 04:43.440 --> 04:48.480 We want the group and then it will select everything else in this group. 04:48.630 --> 04:52.800 And that's incredibly useful because now we can go ahead and move it in this case and and lift up ever 04:52.800 --> 04:54.990 so slightly says off of the ground. 04:54.990 --> 04:59.250 And there we go we're starting to build up a scene now and that works with any of the objects that are 04:59.250 --> 05:03.780 in this groups of us to go ahead and select the queen gear shift in G and go to group. 05:04.020 --> 05:06.360 It will select everything in that group once more. 05:06.360 --> 05:12.960 Another way of grouping things together as we have a look in the object group menu we can see we can 05:12.960 --> 05:15.970 create a new group control energy. 05:16.170 --> 05:22.170 So what we can do there is we can make sure that we select everything that has the same material on 05:22.170 --> 05:29.580 it and we can do that by holding down shift and the L key at the same time and then we can select linked 05:29.640 --> 05:30.530 objects. 05:30.570 --> 05:33.890 And so I want everything that sharing the same material. 05:34.020 --> 05:35.240 They're now all there now. 05:35.250 --> 05:38.660 I can go ahead and go control genes that will add a group. 05:38.790 --> 05:42.960 So these black pieces are part of the chessboard group we can see that or I can use this button here 05:43.080 --> 05:48.570 but only use control and G is added in a new group and I can call that new group straightaway what shall 05:48.570 --> 05:49.740 we call it. 05:50.040 --> 05:53.720 Let's think black pieces will probably be the best. 05:53.880 --> 05:56.510 And there we go we created a new group. 05:56.520 --> 06:02.460 You can also from this menu go down let's say to a chessboard go get to the drop down on the far right 06:02.520 --> 06:04.460 and select the group. 06:04.590 --> 06:06.560 And there we go we've selected everything. 06:06.570 --> 06:07.890 Now from there. 06:07.890 --> 06:12.480 So we you your objects themselves can be parts of more than one group. 06:12.480 --> 06:16.500 It's important for starting to manage your groupings. 06:16.500 --> 06:19.490 So finally where is that big list of groups. 06:19.490 --> 06:24.150 Because as a scene gets more complex you can't be expected to click on an individual object. 06:24.300 --> 06:27.220 Go shift in genes and select everything in the group. 06:27.300 --> 06:32.370 You might not even Which group that's a good question because at the moment if we select something in 06:32.370 --> 06:38.880 the blank a shift in G group it does give us an option which is useful but it's still quite owner is 06:38.880 --> 06:39.540 doing that. 06:39.540 --> 06:44.240 How do I know how many groups I've got in my scene how do I know what the active group is. 06:44.520 --> 06:46.410 Well that's all done in the outline. 06:46.410 --> 06:50.820 So once again I'll make this a little bigger over here bring this down and where we've got an option 06:50.820 --> 06:56.190 at the very top on the head bar where we have all scenes we can change that to a different selection 06:56.400 --> 06:57.620 groups in this case. 06:57.750 --> 07:00.610 And then we go lot black pieces and chess board. 07:00.810 --> 07:05.700 And this is where you can start adding things to groups as well. 07:05.700 --> 07:06.820 If you wanted to. 07:06.990 --> 07:11.520 Now you can see here we've only got two groups in the scene that's accurate and we can make sure that 07:11.520 --> 07:17.940 exists as well if we go into a new blend file and go to append bring in the chess board that we've been 07:17.940 --> 07:22.550 working on all know I've saved is a different file amended groups that was the file we just working 07:22.560 --> 07:28.050 on we got group we got black pieces we can just bring in the individual black pieces and there we go 07:28.050 --> 07:28.250 there. 07:28.260 --> 07:29.970 In our scene ready to use. 07:30.150 --> 07:36.000 And if we go to the all scenes under the outline and go to groups we can see that the black pieces group 07:36.030 --> 07:37.140 is there as well. 07:37.200 --> 07:42.690 And you can turn off the settings for visibility selecting and rendering any of the objects that are 07:42.690 --> 07:45.680 part of that group as well which is incredibly useful. 07:45.690 --> 07:48.920 It just allows you that extra level of control. 07:49.170 --> 07:53.640 And of course under the outliner there are a series of other options you can go for as where you can 07:53.640 --> 07:55.470 just do whatever you've got selected. 07:55.470 --> 08:01.470 So if we go ahead and select the porn only the porn appears etc etc. There's lots you can do in this 08:01.500 --> 08:02.660 outline as well. 08:02.790 --> 08:05.760 So there we go there's an overview of using groups. 08:05.790 --> 08:07.370 Now they are incredibly useful. 08:07.380 --> 08:12.360 Use them where it's appropriate especially if you're moving vast numbers of models like on the chessboard 08:12.390 --> 08:18.960 here over to a new scene to set it up in that new scene groups will be an absolute saviour for you to 08:18.960 --> 08:21.600 be able to do that nice and quickly. 08:21.670 --> 08:23.060 K. That's it for this lecture. 08:23.220 --> 08:27.740 I hope you've enjoyed it and found it informative and I'll see you all in the next lecture.