WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:01.753 Hey guys, Dylan Gu here and welcome 00:01.765 --> 00:03.480 back to the Tune Shading tutorial. 00:04.000 --> 00:05.318 In this video we're going 00:05.330 --> 00:06.660 to be talking about the 00:06.672 --> 00:07.621 Blender basics, so 00:07.633 --> 00:09.180 navigation, transformation, 00:09.760 --> 00:10.280 all that jazz. 00:10.580 --> 00:12.470 If you guys have already been using Blender 00:12.482 --> 00:14.340 for a while, go ahead and skip this video. 00:14.460 --> 00:15.280 You don't need it. 00:15.380 --> 00:17.215 But for those of you guys who have never 00:17.227 --> 00:19.120 used Blender before and want to jump into 00:19.121 --> 00:21.069 it and want to jump into 00:21.081 --> 00:23.040 this tutorial and make 00:23.041 --> 00:23.479 a cool character, this 00:23.491 --> 00:23.940 tutorial is for you. 00:23.941 --> 00:27.387 So stay tuned, we're going to be going over 00:27.399 --> 00:30.700 the basics of navigation here and as well 00:30.701 --> 00:31.835 as some transformation 00:31.847 --> 00:33.149 things and some editing 00:33.161 --> 00:34.090 things and all the 00:34.102 --> 00:35.460 things you need to know. 00:35.640 --> 00:37.227 Very simple, but you need to know them 00:37.239 --> 00:38.880 in order to use Blender to its fullest. 00:39.720 --> 00:40.621 So let's go ahead and 00:40.633 --> 00:41.720 jump into it, shall we? 00:42.780 --> 00:45.160 This is the default scene in Blender. 00:45.200 --> 00:46.384 If you've ever opened Blender 00:46.396 --> 00:47.840 before, you have seen this scene. 00:48.600 --> 00:49.880 This is the camera, 00:49.892 --> 00:51.660 the cube, and the light. 00:52.960 --> 00:54.688 And just to go over that 00:54.700 --> 00:57.020 real quick, if you can't tell, 00:57.021 --> 00:57.464 this is my mouse, you can 00:57.476 --> 00:58.021 see what I've been pressing. 00:58.320 --> 00:59.406 But right click is select, 00:59.418 --> 01:00.600 we'll start out with that. 01:00.620 --> 01:01.620 Right click is select. 01:01.920 --> 01:03.676 Now you might think that's 01:03.688 --> 01:05.660 a little weird to use right 01:05.661 --> 01:06.191 click for select, like no 01:06.203 --> 01:06.941 other software does that, right? 01:07.320 --> 01:09.671 But I'm personally a big fan of it, I 01:09.683 --> 01:12.420 think it does a lot of wonders for clearing 01:12.421 --> 01:14.399 up any ambiguous clicks that 01:14.411 --> 01:16.400 happen in other softwares. 01:16.401 --> 01:18.087 Usually, because left 01:18.099 --> 01:20.120 click is so ubiquitous, 01:20.132 --> 01:22.147 it becomes very ambiguous 01:22.159 --> 01:23.780 as to if they want 01:23.781 --> 01:24.641 to select something 01:24.653 --> 01:25.801 or if they want to drag 01:25.813 --> 01:28.067 something or if they want to select something 01:28.079 --> 01:30.000 else, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. 01:31.040 --> 01:32.708 The right click and the left 01:32.720 --> 01:34.640 click separation there for the 01:34.641 --> 01:35.499 selection versus all the other 01:35.511 --> 01:36.380 things actually helps a lot. 01:36.780 --> 01:38.451 So I'm a big fan of it, if you guys 01:38.463 --> 01:40.240 can get used to it, I would recommend 01:40.241 --> 01:42.726 getting used to it, but there is an option 01:42.738 --> 01:45.060 to change your right click to your left 01:45.061 --> 01:47.076 click, if you go to, 01:47.088 --> 01:49.724 let me hit control shift 01:49.736 --> 01:51.957 U, if you go to input, 01:51.969 --> 01:54.100 you can select with 01:54.101 --> 01:55.995 left, and if you do that, it will select 01:56.007 --> 01:57.960 with your left, but I recommend trying it 01:57.961 --> 01:59.061 with your right for 01:59.073 --> 02:00.420 a while first, if you 02:00.421 --> 02:00.866 can't get used to it, 02:00.878 --> 02:01.421 go ahead and switch it. 02:01.820 --> 02:02.669 Anyway, that's just my 02:02.681 --> 02:03.660 opinion, let's move on. 02:04.300 --> 02:07.277 So another thing is rotating in your scene 02:07.289 --> 02:10.000 like this, as you can see here, a free 02:10.001 --> 02:12.545 rotate around the cube, or revolve I should 02:12.557 --> 02:14.880 say, with your camera, that is what the 02:14.881 --> 02:16.833 middle mouse button, so you just click 02:16.845 --> 02:19.060 and hold middle mouse button and drag, that 02:19.061 --> 02:22.614 will achieve that axis of movement, and 02:22.626 --> 02:26.280 then you can do, hold shift, and then do 02:26.281 --> 02:28.552 middle mouse button, so shift and middle 02:28.564 --> 02:30.680 mouse button is to pan, so you can go 02:30.681 --> 02:33.299 left and right, up and down, and then 02:33.311 --> 02:36.080 if you want to zoom in, pretty obvious, 02:36.400 --> 02:40.082 you just scroll on your scroll wheel, 02:40.094 --> 02:44.080 that's it, scroll in, scroll out, scroll 02:44.081 --> 02:46.106 that, that, and that, so those are the 02:46.118 --> 02:48.260 three things you really need to know for 02:48.261 --> 02:50.178 basic navigation in Blender, 02:50.190 --> 02:52.740 super simple, hope that is helpful. 02:53.580 --> 02:56.638 Next is, of course, transformation, so 02:56.650 --> 02:59.720 we'll go over the G, S, and R hotkeys, 03:00.520 --> 03:02.169 GSR, might sound kind of weird now, 03:02.181 --> 03:03.980 but now I can tell you that they stand 03:03.981 --> 03:06.570 for grab, scale, and rotate, and suddenly, 03:06.582 --> 03:08.820 hey look at that, that's pretty easy 03:08.821 --> 03:10.692 to remember, so we have grab, we'll 03:10.704 --> 03:12.640 start out with grab, I'm going to go 03:12.641 --> 03:14.197 to this cube with right click, and 03:14.209 --> 03:16.000 then as you can see here, there's these 03:16.001 --> 03:17.630 arrows for the axes, we're going to 03:17.642 --> 03:19.420 ignore those for now, because I prefer 03:19.421 --> 03:20.790 using the hotkeys, and I think you 03:20.802 --> 03:22.261 should learn how to use the hotkeys, 03:22.640 --> 03:25.246 and that is with G, you can freely 03:25.258 --> 03:28.100 grab, and this is such a nice feature 03:28.101 --> 03:29.643 because in no other software can 03:29.655 --> 03:31.500 you do this, and then also let go of 03:31.501 --> 03:32.989 your hands, and still just kind of 03:33.001 --> 03:34.500 move the mouse, I'm not holding or 03:34.501 --> 03:36.907 dragging any buttons at all, it's 03:36.919 --> 03:39.480 just doing that, so it's very, it's 03:39.481 --> 03:41.169 much nicer on your fingers and your 03:41.181 --> 03:42.880 hands, like for Maya and for other. 03:43.340 --> 03:45.719 softwares, you have to click and drag 03:45.731 --> 03:48.060 to move things, and that's just very 03:48.061 --> 03:50.665 inefficient and very straining on 03:50.677 --> 03:53.600 your muscles, in my personal opinion, 03:53.780 --> 03:56.238 so if you hit G, you can do that, 03:56.250 --> 03:58.720 you can also do G, X, along the X 03:58.721 --> 04:00.837 axis, or you can do, let me right 04:00.849 --> 04:03.040 click, okay, go ahead, right click 04:03.041 --> 04:05.528 when you're in the middle of 04:05.540 --> 04:09.200 transformation, by the way, I didn't go 04:09.201 --> 04:10.393 about this, is once you do this, 04:10.405 --> 04:12.060 you're like, okay, well, how do I actually 04:12.061 --> 04:14.737 move it, if you left click, that's 04:14.749 --> 04:17.360 confirmation, if you confirm your 04:17.361 --> 04:19.721 transformation, it will stay there, 04:19.733 --> 04:22.040 and if you right click, it will go 04:22.041 --> 04:23.880 back to where it was before you 04:23.892 --> 04:26.280 click G, so that's a very handy thing, 04:26.340 --> 04:28.019 it works for all three transformations, 04:28.031 --> 04:29.300 grab, scale, and rotate, very 04:29.301 --> 04:32.885 important to know, so along with 04:32.897 --> 04:37.280 that, you have the G, X, and then you 04:37.281 --> 04:39.100 can switch these without having to 04:39.112 --> 04:41.100 press G again, but all you have to do 04:41.101 --> 04:43.460 is hit X, Y, or Z, very, very 04:43.472 --> 04:46.660 intuitive, I mean, it's super easy to 04:46.661 --> 04:48.402 remember, and then you can move along 04:48.414 --> 04:50.120 any of these axes, and then also you 04:50.121 --> 04:52.535 can move along two axes and not the 04:52.547 --> 04:55.040 other one, so if you do Shift-Z, you 04:55.041 --> 04:57.589 can move along the X and Y axes, and 04:57.601 --> 05:00.300 then Shift-Y, you can move along those 05:00.301 --> 05:02.289 two, and then Shift-X, oh, yeah, 05:02.301 --> 05:04.800 Shift-X, there we go, yeah, so this is 05:04.801 --> 05:07.948 fun to know, and then one last thing 05:07.960 --> 05:11.460 is Alt-G, so Alt-G basically returns the 05:11.461 --> 05:14.379 cube or any object back to its original 05:14.391 --> 05:17.320 position, and just to show you what the 05:17.321 --> 05:20.221 original position is, if you can see 05:20.233 --> 05:23.460 here, this transform property tab thing, 05:23.640 --> 05:25.414 I went ahead and pressed N for this, 05:25.426 --> 05:27.260 by the way, the letter N is the thing 05:27.261 --> 05:29.145 that opens up this properties tab 05:29.157 --> 05:31.500 here on the right of the viewport, it has 05:31.501 --> 05:32.793 the location here, so you can see 05:32.805 --> 05:34.340 the location of the cube changes when I 05:34.341 --> 05:36.425 drag it, right, and let's say I confirm 05:36.437 --> 05:38.480 it there, that's no longer 000, if you 05:38.481 --> 05:40.906 want to bring it back to 000, you hit 05:40.918 --> 05:43.420 Alt-G, 000 can be anywhere, it doesn't 05:43.421 --> 05:46.207 have to be in the origin, depends on 05:46.219 --> 05:49.320 where that local base transformation is, 05:49.600 --> 05:51.161 but for the most part, it's the 05:51.173 --> 05:53.000 origin, so another hotkey is R for 05:53.001 --> 05:54.413 rotate, so we'll go ahead and do 05:54.425 --> 05:56.160 that, R for rotate, as you can see, I 05:56.161 --> 05:58.133 can rotate along the axis that I'm 05:58.145 --> 06:00.300 looking at, but let's say you want to 06:00.301 --> 06:03.443 rotate along the x-axis, boom, Rx, or Ry, 06:03.455 --> 06:06.760 or Rz, and of course left-click to confirm, 06:07.420 --> 06:10.712 and then Alt-R to bring it back to 06:10.724 --> 06:14.500 000 of the rotation attributes, values, 06:14.780 --> 06:17.678 whatever, and then we have something 06:17.690 --> 06:20.600 that is unique to rotation, which is 06:20.601 --> 06:22.260 after you hit R, you can hit R 06:22.272 --> 06:24.500 again, and then you get a free rotate, 06:24.501 --> 06:27.869 which is probably the most intuitive 06:27.881 --> 06:31.260 rotation tool here, it is very, very 06:31.261 --> 06:33.194 easy to rotate something from any angle 06:33.206 --> 06:35.200 with this tool, so you hit R, R, and you 06:35.201 --> 06:37.330 can rotate, you know, kind of freely 06:37.342 --> 06:39.540 from any axis, I'm gonna go ahead and 06:39.541 --> 06:42.113 left-click, and then Alt-R, and then 06:42.125 --> 06:44.640 we'll move on to scale, so scale is 06:44.641 --> 06:47.347 obviously S, S is going to be 06:47.359 --> 06:50.920 for making things bigger or smaller, 06:50.921 --> 06:52.722 essentially, so as you can see here, 06:52.734 --> 06:54.840 the scale values here are also getting up, 06:55.880 --> 07:00.468 and for the XYZ, you can see you can 07:00.480 --> 07:05.080 also do X, or Y, or Z, right, or you 07:05.081 --> 07:06.509 could do Shift-Z, you could also do 07:06.521 --> 07:08.040 that for rotate, by the way, I didn't 07:08.041 --> 07:09.699 really go over that, but it's not as 07:09.711 --> 07:11.380 helpful with rotate, because you can 07:11.381 --> 07:13.464 really only rotate along one axis 07:13.476 --> 07:15.880 anyway, and of course Alt-S also does. 07:17.320 --> 07:19.418 zeroing out of scale, except for 07:19.430 --> 07:22.200 scale, Alt-S goes to 1, because going to 07:22.201 --> 07:24.687 zero would be invisible, so 07:24.699 --> 07:28.400 anyway, let's see, that's about it for 07:28.401 --> 07:30.002 transformation, now I do have 07:30.014 --> 07:32.240 something I want to show you guys for, 07:32.920 --> 07:34.437 before we get into the modeling part 07:34.449 --> 07:36.020 of the tutorial, and that's something 07:36.021 --> 07:37.438 called edit mode, now you might 07:37.450 --> 07:39.340 have noticed we can transform this cube 07:39.341 --> 07:41.099 all we want, but it's never going to 07:41.111 --> 07:42.880 turn into a snowman, right, this is, 07:42.881 --> 07:47.029 it doesn't matter what I do to it, it's 07:47.041 --> 07:51.200 still not a snowman, right, so what you 07:51.201 --> 07:53.089 want to do is go into edit mode, 07:53.101 --> 07:55.180 and edit mode actually alters the 07:55.181 --> 07:58.160 vertices themselves, so if you hit 07:58.172 --> 08:01.420 the tab button, you notice everything 08:01.421 --> 08:02.930 turns orange, that's cool, but 08:02.942 --> 08:04.920 the reason why it's orange is because 08:04.921 --> 08:06.383 everything is selected, and when 08:06.395 --> 08:08.100 I say everything, I mean all of the 08:08.101 --> 08:10.843 vertices, so these vertices here 08:10.855 --> 08:14.040 are individual objects essentially, 08:14.340 --> 08:16.081 individual entities that you can 08:16.093 --> 08:18.340 move, as you can see here, and that was 08:18.341 --> 08:19.980 from me right clicking and dragging, 08:19.992 --> 08:21.420 that's another way to transform 08:21.421 --> 08:22.956 something by the way, if you right 08:22.968 --> 08:24.560 click and drag, you can go on that, 08:24.680 --> 08:25.832 and then I can still let go of 08:25.844 --> 08:27.240 right click, and it's still in the 08:27.241 --> 08:29.019 grab thing, left click and right 08:29.031 --> 08:31.100 click to confirm or deny, etc, etc, 08:31.140 --> 08:32.818 anyway, just wanted to explain that 08:32.830 --> 08:34.660 there and why that happened, but yeah, 08:34.661 --> 08:36.827 you can select and you can also 08:36.839 --> 08:39.720 shift select to select multiple points, 08:39.920 --> 08:41.050 and you can do this in object 08:41.062 --> 08:42.440 mode as well, shift select works. 08:42.920 --> 08:45.424 ubiquitously, but yeah, so once 08:45.436 --> 08:48.440 you do that, you can transform this 08:48.441 --> 08:50.369 cube however you want, you can 08:50.381 --> 08:52.580 even select multiple and kind of 08:52.581 --> 08:54.417 rotate it or scale it like 08:54.429 --> 08:57.060 that, you can do whatever you want, 08:57.080 --> 08:59.034 you can take these two and scale 08:59.046 --> 09:01.320 it, this of course with the S and R 09:01.321 --> 09:03.906 and G keys only, so yeah, that's 09:03.918 --> 09:06.840 very, very intuitive, all the same 09:06.841 --> 09:09.669 transformation hotkeys are there, 09:09.681 --> 09:12.520 except there's no reset position, 09:12.540 --> 09:14.937 I can't go here and hit alt G, 09:14.949 --> 09:18.080 that doesn't do anything, so once you 09:18.081 --> 09:20.530 make a change, you have to undo 09:20.542 --> 09:23.320 it or just remember where it was, 09:24.740 --> 09:26.794 so yeah, cool, so I can undo 09:26.806 --> 09:29.020 things in here in edit mode, 09:29.021 --> 09:32.083 I can undo things here, great, so 09:32.095 --> 09:35.620 it goes pretty far, I think we can get 09:35.621 --> 09:37.319 all the way down, no, that's as far as 09:37.331 --> 09:39.040 we can go, so that's just based on the 09:39.041 --> 09:41.089 undo buffer, it's not big enough, 09:41.101 --> 09:42.980 so that's as far as we can go, 09:43.200 --> 09:45.066 you can change that in the user 09:45.078 --> 09:47.320 preferences as well, let's go ahead 09:47.321 --> 09:49.882 and see if we can do that real 09:49.894 --> 09:53.240 quick, editing, yeah, so global undo, 09:53.340 --> 09:55.214 you can do steps, you can bring 09:55.226 --> 09:57.660 this up to 256 or something like that, 09:57.661 --> 09:59.052 but that does use up more 09:59.064 --> 10:01.140 memory, so it's entirely up to you, 10:01.420 --> 10:03.718 if you want to do that, okay, anyway, 10:03.730 --> 10:06.100 so one thing I did want to talk about. 10:06.760 --> 10:08.868 was undo history, which we just 10:08.880 --> 10:11.820 talked about, yes, but more specifically, 10:11.900 --> 10:13.598 undo history with edit mode, so you 10:13.610 --> 10:15.320 have an undo history with edit mode 10:15.321 --> 10:16.587 and you can also hit control 10:16.599 --> 10:18.060 shift C, by the way, for redo, 10:18.480 --> 10:20.095 it's not control Y like it is in a 10:20.107 --> 10:21.920 lot of softwares, it is in my opinion, 10:22.060 --> 10:24.268 the superior hotkey control shift C, 10:24.280 --> 10:26.500 which just makes so much more sense, 10:28.040 --> 10:29.639 but yeah, so as you can see 10:29.651 --> 10:31.560 here, we have an undo history, 10:31.660 --> 10:33.207 I'm doing control Z, control shift C, 10:33.219 --> 10:34.860 going back and forth, blah, blah, blah, 10:34.861 --> 10:36.681 great, now I'm going to go all the 10:36.693 --> 10:38.840 way forward to our final transformation, 10:39.860 --> 10:41.485 do a little bit extra stuff 10:41.497 --> 10:43.800 here, and then I'm going to hit tab, 10:44.320 --> 10:45.689 I'm going to go back into 10:45.701 --> 10:47.580 object mode, and as you can see, 10:48.220 --> 10:49.908 I'm like, okay, well, I didn't like 10:49.920 --> 10:51.620 that, maybe I want to bring it back 10:51.621 --> 10:52.971 to just one more step, maybe I 10:52.983 --> 10:54.800 wanted to bring that one thing back in 10:54.801 --> 10:56.682 just a little bit like I had it before, 10:56.694 --> 10:58.540 I'm going to hit the control Z button, 11:01.120 --> 11:02.579 and everything's gone, everything's 11:02.591 --> 11:03.940 gone because I'm in object mode, 11:04.380 --> 11:05.853 and in object mode, the undo 11:05.865 --> 11:08.040 history is separate, so in object mode, 11:08.280 --> 11:09.520 what they see as your 11:09.532 --> 11:11.320 edit mode and your edit mode 11:11.321 --> 11:12.627 doing all those crazy things, 11:12.639 --> 11:14.320 that edit mode history is separate, 11:14.340 --> 11:15.948 so you have basically a gap 11:15.960 --> 11:17.940 in the timeline of undo history 11:17.941 --> 11:19.539 where all you did was go into edit 11:19.551 --> 11:21.160 mode and then come back out of it, 11:21.300 --> 11:22.798 so when you undo once, it goes 11:22.810 --> 11:24.320 all the way back to the time 11:24.321 --> 11:25.365 before you went into edit 11:25.377 --> 11:26.560 mode, which is, of course, 11:26.920 --> 11:28.351 before you transformed anything, 11:28.363 --> 11:29.580 so now you have this cube 11:29.581 --> 11:31.377 that isn't transformed at all, 11:31.389 --> 11:33.740 and if you redo with control shift Z, 11:34.160 --> 11:37.700 it brings it back, but as you can see here, 11:37.701 --> 11:39.519 if we go into edit mode and try 11:39.531 --> 11:41.480 to bring back the undo history, 11:41.960 --> 11:43.362 it's all wiped out, so it 11:43.374 --> 11:45.240 will wipe out your undo history 11:45.241 --> 11:46.272 if you're not careful, so 11:46.284 --> 11:47.620 that's why I want to make sure 11:47.621 --> 11:49.653 you guys don't do that, I don't 11:49.665 --> 11:51.840 want you guys to lose any work, 11:53.400 --> 11:54.828 but yeah, anyway, the proper 11:54.840 --> 11:56.280 way to do it is like this, 11:57.800 --> 11:58.818 so let's say, I'm just 11:58.830 --> 12:00.000 going to go and undo on 12:00.001 --> 12:00.764 purpose to this cube 12:00.776 --> 12:01.860 here so we can start over, 12:02.260 --> 12:03.229 I'm going to go ahead and 12:03.241 --> 12:04.380 hit tab, go into edit mode, 12:04.760 --> 12:05.851 and I'm going to move 12:05.863 --> 12:07.280 some things around, blah, 12:07.300 --> 12:08.442 blah, blah, look at this 12:08.454 --> 12:09.800 cube, oh man, I'm so cool, 12:10.380 --> 12:11.732 I'm moving a cube around, 12:11.744 --> 12:13.380 cool, it's no longer a cube, 12:13.460 --> 12:14.563 well look at that, that's 12:14.575 --> 12:15.600 a very strange shape, 12:16.720 --> 12:18.126 but ultimately, if I hit tab 12:18.138 --> 12:19.860 and I'm like, oh cool, actually, 12:19.861 --> 12:21.325 I didn't really want to do that 12:21.337 --> 12:22.860 last thing I did in edit mode, 12:22.980 --> 12:24.314 you want to go back into 12:24.326 --> 12:26.120 edit mode, and then control Z, 12:26.460 --> 12:27.498 you still have your full 12:27.510 --> 12:28.560 undo history that way, 12:28.980 --> 12:30.620 as you can see, I can go back and forth, 12:31.120 --> 12:33.520 and that's totally fine, just make sure 12:33.521 --> 12:35.428 that you don't do anything 12:35.440 --> 12:37.580 crazy trying to undo things 12:37.581 --> 12:38.748 in object mode when really 12:38.760 --> 12:40.120 you want to be in edit mode, 12:40.420 --> 12:41.492 and yeah, that's it, 12:41.504 --> 12:42.860 just wanted to warn you 12:42.861 --> 12:43.715 guys about that, now 12:43.727 --> 12:44.940 there are a few more tools 12:44.941 --> 12:45.674 that you guys need to 12:45.686 --> 12:46.820 learn, but we'll be going over 12:46.821 --> 12:49.201 those as we use them in the next tutorial 12:49.213 --> 12:51.320 where we begin the modeling process, 12:51.380 --> 12:52.450 so I hope you guys are 12:52.462 --> 12:53.840 excited, I'm sure excited, 12:55.340 --> 12:56.410 so let's jump into it, 12:56.422 --> 12:57.700 I'll see you guys there.