WEBVTT 00:00.750 --> 00:08.890 Welcome to linking blend files making local in this video you'll learn why you want to make a link they 00:09.020 --> 00:15.260 to block local understand we are starting to sever links by doing this. 00:15.330 --> 00:23.280 Learn about the various stages of making it local and decide when would be a good time to localize that 00:23.280 --> 00:24.400 data block. 00:24.780 --> 00:29.220 So let's go over a couple of advantages and disadvantages that this does. 00:29.430 --> 00:34.680 So one of the advantages is you will have more local control you will have to keep opening up a separate 00:34.680 --> 00:41.460 blender file and modifying it before seen the changes in your scene search can be a bit quicker. 00:41.520 --> 00:43.920 Working with it on this way. 00:43.920 --> 00:50.000 External files if they're moved the project can stay together which is very useful especially if you're 00:50.020 --> 00:54.870 working in a team or you want to deviate from a path and test something out. 00:54.870 --> 00:59.720 Perhaps now potentially there's a disadvantage there's more work involved. 00:59.880 --> 01:07.170 And we have to be careful that when we decide to make something local that we do really don't need that 01:07.170 --> 01:08.030 link anymore. 01:08.070 --> 01:12.480 Or which links do we need and which ones do we not need. 01:12.480 --> 01:19.500 Remember that any edits that you make on the original affect all linked data blocks but not the ones 01:19.500 --> 01:20.620 made local. 01:21.370 --> 01:23.820 So when do you localize. 01:23.920 --> 01:28.400 Well when the link is not required I know that's a bit woolly at this point in time. 01:28.420 --> 01:31.150 How do I know whether the links are not required. 01:31.150 --> 01:37.470 Well if that's the question you are asking then perhaps you shouldn't be actually making something local. 01:37.720 --> 01:44.380 So when you want to make the asset unique in this particular file so say you were building up this building 01:44.410 --> 01:49.600 and that we've generated a textual and material that go along with this but you want to take it off 01:49.600 --> 01:51.290 on a different direction see what it looks like. 01:51.290 --> 01:56.920 As with a different material applied to it a chrome finish to the wall says or Mary whatever you want 01:56.920 --> 01:57.970 to do with it. 01:57.970 --> 02:03.970 Well this may be a time to make the material date or block unique so you don't have to make everything 02:04.000 --> 02:11.560 unique you can make individual parts of the linked file unique and local to the blend file that you're 02:11.560 --> 02:12.970 working on. 02:12.970 --> 02:17.600 The other thing is when you want to make changes irrelevant to other potential projects. 02:17.680 --> 02:23.710 So we certainly don't want to change the material of a wall that we create just so effects this one 02:23.710 --> 02:29.320 because if we're linking that in any other projects that we're working on if we've got a nice assets 02:29.320 --> 02:35.410 store and we don't want to go ruining every other project we've got with changes that are specifically 02:35.410 --> 02:36.360 local. 02:37.020 --> 02:40.340 Hint there to this scene that we're working on. 02:40.580 --> 02:42.730 So we've got four options. 02:42.740 --> 02:45.970 Option one selected objects. 02:45.980 --> 02:52.370 So what that does is it clone's the object data block and anything in the hierarchy beneath it to the 02:52.370 --> 02:57.010 new blend file all the other data blocks remain linked to the other file. 02:57.230 --> 03:01.080 And this allows changing of anything in the object data block. 03:01.110 --> 03:07.700 So now we can scale it rotate it a movie etc. but it does sever that first link. 03:07.700 --> 03:13.520 Option 2 is a little bit more selected objects and data so this close the object and the data. 03:13.520 --> 03:19.510 Data block to that a new blender file in this allows editing of the mesh data. 03:19.520 --> 03:23.810 Breaking that link and making it a local file now is important. 03:23.810 --> 03:29.090 If that happens any meche data that you update on the original will not come through. 03:29.210 --> 03:35.270 So that's great if you're trying to make a particular part fit an awkward place in your scene but don't 03:35.270 --> 03:42.440 want to edit the original the materials and the other data blocks remain linked to the original objects. 03:42.440 --> 03:49.610 If you go ahead and change or update any of those when you open up your blend file again you will find 03:49.610 --> 03:52.780 that those come in to this blown thing. 03:53.840 --> 03:54.890 Option three. 03:54.920 --> 03:59.990 Well as you can probably guess the selected objects data and materials clone's the object the data and 03:59.990 --> 04:04.370 the materials data block making all of those available for editing. 04:04.370 --> 04:10.520 This allows the editing of all of those data blocks and breaks those links making them local to this 04:10.520 --> 04:12.970 file option for. 04:12.980 --> 04:14.400 And this is the final one. 04:14.510 --> 04:20.420 All as it sounds this is exactly the same actually not pretty much the same but exactly the same a pending 04:20.420 --> 04:27.370 the object into the scene is now entirely local with no links at all to the original file. 04:27.380 --> 04:32.410 You can do whatever it was it's is if you had made it in this particular blend file. 04:32.750 --> 04:37.940 So now we've had an overview of all the different ways that low calls can happen. 04:37.940 --> 04:41.820 Let's go experience this and hop on over in a blender. 04:42.170 --> 04:48.160 Okay so we are back over in blender and I want to demonstrate this making local. 04:48.200 --> 04:54.560 So the first thing I'm going to do is actually bring in something else so I can work rivets in a link. 04:54.560 --> 04:57.810 I'm going to go in two or are meshes. 04:57.890 --> 05:00.620 I'm going to bring in my mannequins so I can work on that. 05:00.620 --> 05:04.540 In the scene around object mannequin and link from Library. 05:04.640 --> 05:05.730 So that's now in here. 05:05.750 --> 05:08.850 Now I don't have to make it a proxy first. 05:08.900 --> 05:15.360 I can make some of it local straightaway and we can do that under the object menu just like before. 05:15.530 --> 05:21.650 And we've got this make local and you can see the shortcut key is the L key and the here are the four 05:21.650 --> 05:23.360 selected objects. 05:25.710 --> 05:30.530 And here are the four selections that we've gone through the selected objects the selected objects and 05:30.540 --> 05:37.020 data which will then enable us to let's say move it rotate it scale it and then we've got enable us 05:37.020 --> 05:44.250 to edit it enables us to change the materials and just the same as a pending and instead of clicking 05:44.250 --> 05:49.860 one of these at the moment we're going to have another look because we know we can do these but these 05:49.860 --> 05:56.110 don't give us full control or we can make a decision about each one of these items completely individually. 05:56.310 --> 06:03.000 So let's make sure the mannequin or whatever you've brought in is selected. 06:03.660 --> 06:11.040 And then we are going to first of all take a look at the major ones here. 06:11.040 --> 06:16.080 So this mannequin I know has object data and we can see it's greyed out at the moment. 06:16.440 --> 06:21.150 We have meshed data just here and moving forward. 06:21.150 --> 06:29.820 We have material data now the mesh and material data are part of the object data so there's no making 06:29.820 --> 06:32.040 that local just at the moment. 06:32.040 --> 06:35.420 What we'd need to do first is work down that hierarchy. 06:35.610 --> 06:41.430 So in this case and here's the material laid out here we can see they're all links the mesh data is 06:41.430 --> 06:42.120 linked. 06:42.120 --> 06:44.860 The material is linked and the object data is linked. 06:45.120 --> 06:51.750 So let's go to the object data first and there's a little button on the end of the name the object data 06:51.750 --> 06:55.190 itself and that will click to make it local. 06:55.220 --> 06:56.140 Perfect. 06:56.190 --> 07:01.500 That's the same as pressing L over here and doing selected objects. 07:01.700 --> 07:06.180 The moment we've done that what clicked on this button here we can see that this is no longer greyed 07:06.180 --> 07:08.370 out and is enabled for editing. 07:08.460 --> 07:16.100 That's now local to this file any object data that we change in the source file will not be updated. 07:16.110 --> 07:19.280 Now that does allow us to move it about. 07:19.380 --> 07:22.490 So it's very similar to making that proxy. 07:22.500 --> 07:31.140 However it has now broken the object data link so have we changed any of these other items in the object 07:31.140 --> 07:32.440 data block. 07:32.490 --> 07:37.160 It would not transpire it will not come across to this blend file anymore. 07:37.410 --> 07:44.850 If we go down to the next area which is the mesh data itself that is greyed out and we can click here 07:44.880 --> 07:48.050 and make it local of who we want and that will enable editing. 07:48.060 --> 07:55.090 So now when we hit tab it actually goes into edit mode and we can go about editing this little mannikin. 07:55.110 --> 07:56.250 Perfect. 07:56.890 --> 08:01.290 Well so we have we have the material the materials are still linked as well. 08:01.330 --> 08:07.570 So at any point we can bring in the material that says materials 001 Here's a not very well named. 08:07.570 --> 08:13.270 We can see that is a linked material which means if we change that in the source file even though the 08:13.270 --> 08:20.530 mash data and the object data are now local to this file if we go ahead and change that it will update 08:20.530 --> 08:20.920 here. 08:20.940 --> 08:23.730 I'm going to go demonstrate that right away. 08:23.740 --> 08:30.730 So what I would do is I will make sure I save the file I'm working on hop over to this other file and 08:30.730 --> 08:32.760 just play with it for a moment. 08:32.770 --> 08:35.670 First of all I'm going to change the material how I'm going to rename it. 08:35.680 --> 08:39.800 I'm going to call it manequin rough material. 08:39.880 --> 08:47.590 So I know what it is now that I've renamed That's what I will need to do to make sure it's absolutely 08:47.590 --> 08:48.040 clear. 08:48.160 --> 08:49.860 Is go ahead and change the colour. 08:49.860 --> 08:55.960 I'm going to change it to a bright yellow and hop into material mode to make sure that's happened it 08:55.960 --> 08:58.730 has perfect save the file. 08:58.750 --> 09:01.310 Again this is a rough file so I don't mind playing with it. 09:01.450 --> 09:07.960 And let's say on here we want to give them a pened nokio knows sons are going to select a couple of 09:07.960 --> 09:12.020 faces here and pull it out. 09:12.110 --> 09:16.360 It's going to grab that and proportional editing down a little. 09:16.360 --> 09:20.830 There we go we've got a nose coming out I'm going to lock it to the y axis completely. 09:20.830 --> 09:24.940 So our mannequin now has a nose and a save the file. 09:25.000 --> 09:33.010 And when I go and open up the Gothic church that I'm putting together we will see that the linked data 09:33.070 --> 09:34.950 has been severed. 09:34.990 --> 09:42.310 This mesh isn't updating and because we changed the name of that material that has also disappeared 09:42.700 --> 09:49.240 and we can't even see that in the materials list anymore because we've severed the object data which 09:49.240 --> 09:55.000 itself contained the mesh data and the material data along with it. 09:55.000 --> 10:01.570 Now that's not a big deal we can go and link that bit back in straightaway we can go file out we can't 10:01.570 --> 10:07.560 do it in edit mode so let's hop into object mode and go to link we've got the mannequin here. 10:07.570 --> 10:12.880 I'm going to go up a level go to material and here we go because we've removed the other material it's 10:12.880 --> 10:18.700 just disappeared it's as if we've deleted it and if we go ahead and open up that material we can then 10:18.730 --> 10:20.670 assign its note as it had. 10:20.670 --> 10:25.930 LS 0 initially has now gone because I was very quick and clicked on it and that's now applied to here 10:25.960 --> 10:30.150 and we've got ourselves a yellow mannequin Okay. 10:30.400 --> 10:34.560 Let's go in just experiment once more and make sure that wasn't a fluke. 10:34.570 --> 10:36.490 Let's go and save the file. 10:36.850 --> 10:44.140 Let's change that mannequin serial colour to something else let's change it to a green or a red. 10:44.140 --> 10:49.920 I'm gonna change it to a green save the file and now because I've not updated the name. 10:49.920 --> 10:52.970 We should find that it comes across Green. 10:52.990 --> 10:54.390 Perfect. 10:54.910 --> 10:57.800 Okay so a quick challenge for you guys. 10:57.820 --> 11:03.600 What would you make local think about what's in your scene at the moment. 11:03.790 --> 11:10.780 If you've already done a range of parts into your interior design and think about do you need to make 11:10.840 --> 11:11.950 anything local. 11:11.950 --> 11:17.550 Have you designed your design so that's not applicable that is entirely possible. 11:17.620 --> 11:23.440 And if you do need to make anything local think about why you would want to make it local and which 11:23.440 --> 11:27.470 data blocks if any you would make local. 11:27.520 --> 11:33.580 Now do think carefully about whether you need to do that now or whether you're going to develop your 11:33.580 --> 11:35.940 model a little and do that later. 11:36.070 --> 11:42.490 I'm sure at some point you are going to have to make some of your meche or materials local to the particular 11:42.490 --> 11:50.380 scene especially if you're experimenting with multiple scenes with the same building blocks coming in. 11:50.380 --> 11:54.060 You might want to make a red building or a yellow building or green building. 11:54.160 --> 11:59.980 Obviously while it might not be if it is a kid's toy building then you might be making then that bright 11:59.980 --> 12:00.250 colour. 12:00.250 --> 12:07.540 But you may be doing subtle shades of sandstone or granite or something along those lines where you 12:07.540 --> 12:11.940 want to change the material but only locally in this particular file. 12:12.010 --> 12:18.130 And that's a great way of using the same mesh but actually making it look completely different by changing 12:18.130 --> 12:20.030 the material applied to that mesh. 12:20.320 --> 12:25.110 Anyway enough of me rambling I'd like you to go and pause a video and give that ago. 12:26.770 --> 12:27.600 Okay guys. 12:27.610 --> 12:28.800 Welcome back. 12:28.810 --> 12:32.210 Let's go hop back on over in a blender. 12:32.260 --> 12:37.480 So the first thing that I'm going to do here is just lay out my pieces and see what I've got to work 12:37.480 --> 12:38.040 with. 12:38.940 --> 12:39.470 Okay. 12:39.480 --> 12:40.230 So there we go. 12:40.230 --> 12:46.950 There's my pieces all laid out ready to start organizing into certain sections and I've just glanced 12:47.040 --> 12:50.460 at Wikipedia in fact wonderful place for research. 12:50.550 --> 12:55.950 The parts of a church because I hadn't actually got a clue or clue what they called so I'm going to 12:55.950 --> 13:02.220 have to make some empties Now just to represent those particular parts of the church so I'll be back 13:02.220 --> 13:03.310 in a few moments. 13:03.450 --> 13:10.510 Okay so I've gone ahead and created empties for the five main parts of the church that I'm creating. 13:10.650 --> 13:17.520 And I need to organize is a bit better at the moment because I've got it in alphabetical order essentially 13:17.520 --> 13:21.000 which is very difficult when I want to group them by type. 13:21.210 --> 13:26.220 So we're going to go to the View menu here and sort alphabetically I'm going to turn that off. 13:26.310 --> 13:32.430 And there we go we've now linked by an empty then meche object down here which is much better for me. 13:32.430 --> 13:37.770 The next thing for me to do is start organizing these parts. 13:37.770 --> 13:42.780 Actually in these set scenes so I'm going to start with the nave and the isles which are going to make 13:42.780 --> 13:48.740 up the main body of the church itself sort out all the ancillary bits afterwards. 13:48.870 --> 13:54.270 So I'm going to start building this up and I'm going to use Linked duplicates of these particular items 13:54.750 --> 14:00.120 in order to construct my church so I'll be back with you guys once again in a few moments once I put 14:00.120 --> 14:01.640 these bits all together. 14:02.400 --> 14:07.830 Now before I got going to sort these out into their various empties over here the first thing I did 14:07.830 --> 14:10.900 was make a parts empty and put everything into that. 14:11.010 --> 14:16.380 Now in order to start using these bits what I'm going to do is I'm going to select them all straight 14:16.380 --> 14:23.370 away so I can use them in my model and then go object to link duplicate of course the shortcut key is 14:23.370 --> 14:24.070 Oulton. 14:24.120 --> 14:29.610 And we've got our duplicate objects there but they're still under the weather still under the parts 14:29.640 --> 14:31.110 empty as a parents. 14:31.440 --> 14:39.660 So at this point in time whilst they're still selected what I can do is just hide all of the other empties 14:39.780 --> 14:44.710 apart from the one that I want to work and I want to work on the naved to begin with. 14:44.820 --> 14:50.130 So now because all of those are currently selected than the last one I selected that was the archway 14:50.160 --> 14:50.990 at the top. 14:51.180 --> 14:58.080 I've already forgotten what that's called but I can now click because the only empty left is this one 14:58.080 --> 15:03.750 here I kind of clicked in the outline here but I can also now select it in the 3D view as well. 15:03.900 --> 15:10.320 And then I can press control and pay a parent object and then move those copy linked copies. 15:10.320 --> 15:12.080 That's very important across. 15:12.180 --> 15:19.050 That also means that now I can make sure when I select the parts and everything under the parts itself 15:19.500 --> 15:27.300 that we can move that to layer to in fact all of these other ones need to be on layer 1 that we're working 15:27.300 --> 15:27.860 on. 15:27.960 --> 15:33.450 We need to select everything under here and we can do that by control clicking on the nave itself and 15:33.450 --> 15:36.070 then try moving it to lay a 1. 15:36.090 --> 15:40.890 Now when we have a look at Layer 1 we should have all of our bits there layer 2 will also have all of 15:40.890 --> 15:41.990 our parts. 15:42.030 --> 15:43.230 Brilliant. 15:43.260 --> 15:45.630 So let's go ahead now and assemble this. 15:46.700 --> 15:53.120 I am midway through my construction at the moment and I will just say at this point in time that the 15:53.120 --> 15:57.590 wireframe mode is incredibly useful for lining things up. 15:57.740 --> 16:01.030 If I didn't have wire framo turned on that's the Z key. 16:01.030 --> 16:06.380 Just remember all you can do it down here on the 3d editor head a bar switch to wireframe And then when 16:06.380 --> 16:08.440 I'm looking it's hit from the sides. 16:08.480 --> 16:13.550 I can actually move things exactly into the position they need to be in in the course if I'm zoomed 16:13.550 --> 16:19.070 in enough with the increment snap turned on it allows me very fine control. 16:19.370 --> 16:20.110 Excellent. 16:20.330 --> 16:21.900 Let's carry on with the building. 16:22.130 --> 16:29.570 Okay I'm finally at the end of my assembly stage so I've assembled as you can see some corner pieces 16:29.570 --> 16:31.780 here to make a funky outside. 16:31.790 --> 16:34.440 Know we're working our interiors but I feel I look pretty cool. 16:34.460 --> 16:38.630 So I did it is as simple as that from the top. 16:38.630 --> 16:40.070 Let's zoom round to the top. 16:40.070 --> 16:43.010 We've got the rough shape that we want going on there. 16:43.010 --> 16:53.090 I've added a bit of a side door in terms of the organization of this I have in each area so whether 16:53.090 --> 16:57.100 it's the entrance the Charles or the tower etc.. 16:57.320 --> 17:03.500 I have sub areas so in the entrance I have the entrance way sealing the walls the floor etc. and what 17:03.500 --> 17:10.760 that enables me to do as was holding down control is I can start to remove bits from the scene very 17:10.760 --> 17:11.390 quickly. 17:11.410 --> 17:17.930 By control clicking the little icon there so I can go through here and remove the tower. 17:17.930 --> 17:25.490 And I go through and it lets say move the aisles ceiling etc. So there's lots of powerful things that 17:25.490 --> 17:31.880 I can do by going through here and because I built up in such a way I can actually just remove bits 17:31.970 --> 17:33.640 as and when I want. 17:33.740 --> 17:36.330 Now a couple of things that I have made local here. 17:36.350 --> 17:45.380 One of them was this bit at the very end so I have basically made this part to fit in here and I can 17:45.380 --> 17:47.300 take it out the scene and work on it. 17:47.350 --> 17:50.070 Otherwise I'm with them and actually turn smooth shading on. 17:50.080 --> 17:58.010 On this particular part whilst I'm here to remember so that part has now been made and is ready. 17:58.020 --> 18:01.690 So that's the last last bit at the end of the church there. 18:01.790 --> 18:05.590 None of these are changed from their standard layout. 18:05.780 --> 18:09.350 Probably gone to add some sort of funky window in there. 18:09.400 --> 18:13.790 Again I'll look up reference material to work out there but that's later on it's a bit of detail. 18:13.820 --> 18:21.650 I've added a doorway down here and let's just turn back on the tower and the entrance way. 18:21.650 --> 18:28.490 The towers got a unique part at the top as well because that's a slightly smaller one than the main 18:29.180 --> 18:32.030 roof sections down here but it's a similar style. 18:32.030 --> 18:37.670 It's just been made to fit this area here so that's also a local part as well as this one. 18:37.670 --> 18:39.190 On the end here. 18:39.200 --> 18:39.760 Brilliant. 18:39.890 --> 18:40.970 How did you guys get on. 18:40.970 --> 18:43.700 I'd love to see the church design you've come up with. 18:43.700 --> 18:48.550 Remember to share them in the discussions and I will see you guys in the next lecture.