WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:13.120 So next along the 3D views header bar is these layers and we've got these 20 layers to play 00:13.120 --> 00:14.120 with. 00:14.120 --> 00:16.060 We've got the first one is currently selected. 00:16.060 --> 00:19.280 You can kind of see a little gray box of the first one. 00:19.280 --> 00:24.480 If we left click on another one of these, you can see that this one's now selected. 00:24.480 --> 00:29.040 And that basically means it's going to show in the 3D view the contents of that layer 00:29.040 --> 00:32.440 and there isn't anything in that particular layer that I've selected and that's why the 00:32.440 --> 00:34.200 screen has gone all blank. 00:34.200 --> 00:37.640 So if we just click on the first layer again, we should bring everything back. 00:37.640 --> 00:43.160 We can move things around by pressing the M key and that allows us to move to layer 00:43.160 --> 00:45.880 and we've got this plane selected right now. 00:45.880 --> 00:49.640 So let's move that to the second layer and you can see the difference that we get down 00:49.640 --> 00:50.640 here. 00:50.640 --> 00:53.720 In fact, we get a little circle showing up in that second layer now to show us that there 00:53.720 --> 00:54.720 is something in there. 00:54.720 --> 00:58.520 You can kind of make out that it's orange as well to show us that that's the object that 00:58.520 --> 01:00.280 we happen to have selected. 01:00.280 --> 01:05.080 Also take a look over in the properties window under the object tab, you can see under the 01:05.080 --> 01:10.280 relations area that this is now in the second layer and we can kind of jump it around into 01:10.280 --> 01:14.220 different layers if we like and you can see it's now jumping around down here as well. 01:14.220 --> 01:17.040 So let's just move that back into the first layer. 01:17.040 --> 01:21.320 If we want to be able to see multiple layers, we can just shift select and then we'll be 01:21.320 --> 01:25.560 able to see everything that's going on in the first five layers now. 01:25.560 --> 01:29.160 We can keep this fairly simple and just click on the first layer and just sort of leave 01:29.160 --> 01:30.680 it at that for now. 01:30.680 --> 01:36.320 Of course, these layers do correspond with the layers management add-on that we have 01:36.320 --> 01:40.520 enabled and you can kind of see more details about that here as well. 01:40.520 --> 01:44.320 This is just another way of being able to represent this information down here, it just 01:44.320 --> 01:48.320 gives us a little bit more options to play with. 01:48.320 --> 01:52.240 Moving on from the layers, we have our proportional editing option. 01:52.240 --> 01:59.040 So if I enable that, it's then going to give us a fall-off type that we can then choose. 01:59.040 --> 02:04.360 What this basically means is if we press G to start moving this object, this single plane 02:04.360 --> 02:08.840 that we have selected, we get this circle that shows up, this white circle, which is 02:08.840 --> 02:12.200 going to give us our radius of influence. 02:12.200 --> 02:19.200 If we use our middle mouse wheel, we can kind of scroll that sphere of influence up. 02:19.200 --> 02:24.640 When we start moving now, we can start to include that cube into our movement and you 02:24.640 --> 02:30.120 can see it's only moving a subtle amount because it's the perimeter of our influence. 02:30.120 --> 02:34.720 The kind of more that it gets sucked into the middle of the sphere of influence, the 02:34.720 --> 02:39.920 more it's going to start moving and that's a nice organic way of being able to move things 02:39.920 --> 02:40.920 around. 02:40.920 --> 02:46.280 I'm just going to right-click to just abort that though and then we can also just disable 02:46.280 --> 02:48.440 that option there. 02:48.440 --> 02:52.800 Let's take a look at one of the last things along the header bar now, which is this snapping 02:52.800 --> 02:54.360 area. 02:54.360 --> 02:59.360 This first magnet icon is going to allow us to enable our snapping and this next icon 02:59.360 --> 03:04.760 next to it will allow us to pull down a menu to change our various different snap elements. 03:04.760 --> 03:08.120 So at the moment, it's set to incrementally along the grid. 03:08.120 --> 03:13.120 So what that actually means is if I press 7 on the numpad to jump to a top orthographic 03:13.120 --> 03:17.440 view, press Z to toggle the wireframe and let's zoom in a little bit by scrolling the 03:17.440 --> 03:22.320 mouse wheel, you can see that the object at the moment isn't actually on the grid. 03:22.320 --> 03:27.120 What we might like to do is just zoom out a little bit more, get these larger grid spacings 03:27.120 --> 03:32.140 and then what we can do is start to move along the X axis and you can see it's still got 03:32.140 --> 03:33.400 all these extra digits. 03:33.400 --> 03:37.920 You might have wanted it to be just say 4 and so that's an important point to make that 03:37.920 --> 03:43.880 the incrementally snapping option here is just going to allow you to move incrementally 03:43.880 --> 03:44.880 along the grid. 03:44.880 --> 03:46.660 It's not going to snap you to the grid. 03:46.660 --> 03:49.940 To be able to do that, just got to remember that we've got this other snap menu which 03:49.940 --> 03:55.580 is Shift S and that means we can now, the top of that is selection to grid and then 03:55.580 --> 04:00.420 when you do that, this rounds out these figures and snaps us to the grid for us and now when 04:00.420 --> 04:06.020 we start moving, translate along the X axis in this case, you can see that it was snapping 04:06.020 --> 04:10.580 on along the grid now that we're actually snapped to the grid which we had to manually 04:10.580 --> 04:12.220 do in the first place. 04:12.220 --> 04:14.300 So that's just something to bear in mind. 04:14.300 --> 04:19.060 Once you zoom in and you get some smaller grid spacings, you can see that we can now 04:19.060 --> 04:24.380 sort of snap along and well move incrementally along those smaller grid spacings. 04:24.380 --> 04:27.820 So let's just take a quick look at another option in here. 04:27.820 --> 04:31.980 So for example, like vertices and we've got this cube sat next to us. 04:31.980 --> 04:38.900 So let's press G and then just gesture over to this vertex in the top right of the cube 04:38.900 --> 04:42.380 and then we can just left click to just confirm that translation. 04:42.380 --> 04:48.100 And what happened there was it used the closest vertex in the plane to snap to the vertex 04:48.100 --> 04:50.340 that we indicated to on the cube. 04:50.340 --> 04:55.220 So we can set that to something else like say the median point instead and then press 04:55.220 --> 05:00.380 G and then sort of snap to it and you can see the median point of the vertices of the 05:00.380 --> 05:03.860 plane is now the point that it got snapped to. 05:03.860 --> 05:08.180 Let's sort of, sometimes a good way of being able to use that tool is to say if you wanted 05:08.180 --> 05:13.300 to snap it from this point so that this point of the plane was snapping to that area is 05:13.300 --> 05:19.940 to just move it fairly close first and then you can indicate the closest and press G and 05:19.940 --> 05:24.460 then just indicate onto that and now basically that is in position now. 05:24.460 --> 05:31.220 Also we can just disable the option by clicking on it there but we don't have to necessarily 05:31.220 --> 05:33.220 just come and manually click it on. 05:33.220 --> 05:40.420 We can also once we start to move we can press CTRL and that will now toggle our while 05:40.420 --> 05:42.900 we hold CTRL we're now snapping. 05:42.900 --> 05:48.140 So now we can, as you can see, we're now basically snapping onto the various different vertices 05:48.140 --> 05:53.220 that we select to and then when you let go then it's no longer snapping still because 05:53.220 --> 06:00.340 we've let go of our CTRL key which is kind of our modifier for snapping while translating. 06:00.340 --> 06:05.580 Finally we have these two last buttons which are our open GL viewport render buttons. 06:05.580 --> 06:10.660 The first is for a still image and the second will output an animation if you have one set 06:10.660 --> 06:11.660 up. 06:11.660 --> 06:15.560 Basically this means a very simple render of what we're looking at in our viewport as 06:15.560 --> 06:20.020 opposed to the other main render buttons which will render from the active camera and process 06:20.020 --> 06:24.980 all the complicated lighting bounces and mirrors and transparency and whatever else you might 06:24.980 --> 06:28.140 have going on in the scene that needs time to calculate. 06:28.140 --> 06:33.180 Options for these, by the way, can be found at the top in the render menu. 06:33.180 --> 06:39.180 These first two are the main render buttons, F12 and CTRL F12. 06:39.180 --> 06:44.300 The next down are these two buttons that are at the far right of the header bar that we've 06:44.300 --> 06:48.420 just been talking about, the open GL render and the open GL render animation and you can 06:48.420 --> 06:52.220 also see the options for these here as well. 06:52.220 --> 06:56.780 So that wraps up the 3D view bars header and now it's time to get on with some modeling.