WEBVTT 00:05.000 --> 00:11.080 I've altered the layout slightly to show this little keystroke visualizer app that I'm running 00:11.080 --> 00:15.240 which for this video and for more down the line will hopefully keep a record of everything 00:15.240 --> 00:16.240 pressed. 00:16.240 --> 00:19.120 I'll be explaining as thoroughly as I can so that you don't actually need to look down 00:19.120 --> 00:21.320 there but it's there just in case anyway. 00:21.320 --> 00:25.920 So let's move our user perspective camera around and get to grips with navigating. 00:25.920 --> 00:30.520 I know it's the user perspective camera just because in the top left of the 3D view you 00:30.520 --> 00:33.280 can see it says user persp. 00:33.280 --> 00:37.680 We can also get orthographic views as well which we'll take a look at in a moment. 00:37.680 --> 00:42.600 So all of the main navigation actions require the middle mouse button. 00:42.600 --> 00:45.060 So to rotate we just need the middle mouse button on its own. 00:45.060 --> 00:49.040 So if we just do that you can see I'm rotating around the scene. 00:49.040 --> 00:53.920 To pan we just need to hold down shift and middle mouse button and now we can see we're 00:53.920 --> 00:56.000 panning across the scene. 00:56.000 --> 01:01.160 And then to zoom in we can just hold down control and then middle mouse button and then 01:01.160 --> 01:06.800 slide upwards like that and then downwards to sort of pull away. 01:06.800 --> 01:11.240 You can also use the middle mouse wheel to scroll in and out of an object as well. 01:11.240 --> 01:13.700 This is something I find myself doing quite a bit. 01:13.700 --> 01:18.620 So let's take a look at some of the other viewing angles that we can take on this object. 01:18.620 --> 01:23.400 So we're already looking through the user perspective view as we pointed out before 01:23.400 --> 01:25.200 but how about some other views. 01:25.200 --> 01:31.480 So let's take a look at the front view for example and to do that all I did was press 01:31.480 --> 01:33.200 number one on the numpad. 01:33.200 --> 01:37.600 So all of the hotkeys here we're going to find are in the numpad area. 01:37.600 --> 01:41.840 So number one on the numpad takes you to the front view and if you hold down control and 01:41.840 --> 01:45.880 then number one on the numpad it'll take you to the opposite of that. 01:45.880 --> 01:50.240 So instead of the front we're now at the back and if we press three on the numpad it'll 01:50.240 --> 01:51.960 take us to the right. 01:51.960 --> 01:56.000 And if we hold control and three then we get the left. 01:56.000 --> 02:00.920 And then seven for the top and then control seven and we get the bottom. 02:00.920 --> 02:07.360 And you can see that a lot of those views are pretty much more familiarly seen in orthographic 02:07.360 --> 02:10.120 mode but we're still in perspective mode. 02:10.120 --> 02:14.700 If we want to change that we can press five on the numpad and that will toggle us through. 02:14.700 --> 02:18.560 So right now we're looking at the right orthographic mode and if we hold shift and middle mouse 02:18.560 --> 02:20.760 we can sort of pan around the view. 02:20.760 --> 02:26.520 If we just middle mouse and click we will see ourselves in more of a 3D view but we're 02:26.520 --> 02:32.760 still in orthographic mode so we don't get any foreshortening and basically zero perspective. 02:32.760 --> 02:38.240 All of these hotkeys that I'm using you can actually find down in the footer area of the 02:38.240 --> 02:42.700 3D view and you can see we've got the view menu if we click on that you can see them 02:42.700 --> 02:43.700 all down here. 02:43.700 --> 02:46.000 This is what we've basically just been covering. 02:46.720 --> 02:51.520 A couple of other things that I wanted to point out is just to be able to view something. 02:51.520 --> 02:56.200 So if I actually just scroll the middle mouse wheel to just zoom out a little bit I'm going 02:56.200 --> 03:01.400 to right click on this lamp and if I want to view it I can just press the full stop 03:01.400 --> 03:05.840 or the period key on the numpad and that will zoom you right into it and then if I middle 03:05.840 --> 03:08.160 click around here we can see the rest of the scene. 03:08.160 --> 03:13.240 I'm just going to press five to just move that into a perspective view though so I don't 03:13.240 --> 03:20.160 get too lost and then if I just want to right click onto here to view this and then we can 03:20.160 --> 03:24.400 press period on the numpad again and then we can basically zoom right into that. 03:24.400 --> 03:30.480 If we want to be able to see everything in the scene we can also use just the home key. 03:30.480 --> 03:33.960 So I've built this pretty basic scene to give us something to show the benefits of another 03:33.960 --> 03:36.300 way in which we can navigate through our scene. 03:36.300 --> 03:41.160 This is the fly mode and we can jump into this by going shift F and then once we do 03:41.160 --> 03:47.480 that we can use WAS and D on the keyboard to sort of move around and then using the 03:47.480 --> 03:52.200 mouse we can kind of rotate our vision so it's kind of similar to an FPS game in that 03:52.200 --> 03:57.440 way or at least in this point we're actually just sort of flying around and to actually 03:57.440 --> 04:00.880 increase and decrease the speed you can use the mouse wheel. 04:00.880 --> 04:02.880 I'm just scrolling through there. 04:02.880 --> 04:07.920 We can also go up and down by going Q to go down and then E to go up and in fact if you 04:07.920 --> 04:12.600 look in the details of the header bar which is actually at the bottom of the 3D view at 04:12.600 --> 04:18.040 the moment you can see all the various different options there and you'll notice that happens 04:18.040 --> 04:22.200 for several tools in Blender so if you're looking for some hints sometimes you'll find 04:22.200 --> 04:27.560 them there and you can see it starts off with LMB for left mouse button return to confirm, 04:27.560 --> 04:31.520 escape right mouse button to cancel and then tab for gravity. 04:31.520 --> 04:36.280 Now this is pretty much the most interesting thing that I wanted to kind of convey on this 04:36.280 --> 04:37.280 map that I've built here. 04:37.720 --> 04:41.400 It doesn't really make much sense this by the way it's just something to move around 04:41.400 --> 04:48.720 in so if we press tab we kind of create gravity and also it sort of naturally it Blender works 04:48.720 --> 04:56.080 out what surfaces to kind of give some basic collision to so we can now walk on the floor. 04:56.080 --> 05:02.120 It's not given anything like this a collision we can just sort of pass straight through 05:02.120 --> 05:07.000 but this is pretty cool nonetheless so you can pretty very quickly get something going 05:07.000 --> 05:13.120 for a first person map of some kind and really almost as soon as you finish modeling you 05:13.120 --> 05:15.480 can kind of roam around in it. 05:15.480 --> 05:19.480 The only other thing I'd like to mention right now regarding navigating and getting around 05:19.480 --> 05:23.360 the view is jumping back and forth between a typical quad view. 05:23.360 --> 05:28.680 So quad view is a view which gives you a perspective camera and three orthographic views all within 05:28.680 --> 05:34.880 the same 3D view and we can get to it by using the shortcut control alt and Q and you can 05:34.880 --> 05:40.120 see we get the user perspective camera over here and we've also got a right orthographic 05:40.120 --> 05:47.520 mode here and then we've also got the front orthographic and the top orthographic and 05:47.520 --> 05:52.520 if we just go control alt and Q again we can return back to our previous main view. 05:52.520 --> 05:57.840 We can also find that option within our view menu just near the top toggle quad view and 05:57.840 --> 06:03.640 if we open up our property sidebar with the N key you can find it down near the bottom 06:03.640 --> 06:05.880 here as well toggle quad view. 06:05.880 --> 06:10.220 Also you'll spot an extra couple of options to customize slightly how they behave and 06:10.220 --> 06:11.280 relate to each other. 06:11.280 --> 06:15.240 So that should wrap things up for the basics on navigating around Blender's 3D view.