WEBVTT 00:00:07.692 --> 00:00:10.641 I think, at this point, we're going to start 00:00:10.654 --> 00:00:14.487 getting a lot deeper into Blender, and probably going to start moving 00:00:14.500 --> 00:00:18.846 and switching between sections. Let's get right into it by exploring more 00:00:18.859 --> 00:00:21.667 of the 3D View header bar down here. 00:00:21.795 --> 00:00:26.410 Now, we've already gone over the essentials of what we really need 00:00:26.423 --> 00:00:28.718 to know on the View menu. 00:00:28.731 --> 00:00:32.308 The Select menu, we can come back a little bit to 00:00:32.321 --> 00:00:35.385 a little later. 00:00:35.397 --> 00:00:37.949 Next, we've got the Add menu. 00:00:38.205 --> 00:00:41.538 Now this menu is basically the same menu 00:00:41.551 --> 00:00:45.641 that you can pull up with the cursor in the main view here 00:00:45.654 --> 00:00:48.846 with the Shift A hotkey. Once you do that, 00:00:48.859 --> 00:00:51.667 you've got our mesh objects that we can add. 00:00:51.679 --> 00:00:54.615 For example, there's a cube in the scene already. 00:00:54.744 --> 00:00:58.462 We've got the some curves that we can add. 00:00:58.474 --> 00:01:02.949 Also we have things like Lamps down here at the bottom. 00:01:02.962 --> 00:01:06.667 I realize there's a whole bunch of stuff in here as well. 00:01:06.679 --> 00:01:10.000 But let's start to get two sidetracked right now. 00:01:10.128 --> 00:01:16.795 With that, we have the Object menu. 00:01:16.808 --> 00:01:22.308 This Object menu is actually related to, or at least this final menu 00:01:22.321 --> 00:01:25.513 that you get in the 3D view here, is related to what mode 00:01:25.526 --> 00:01:28.974 you happen to be in. We're in the Object Mode. 00:01:29.231 --> 00:01:34.487 Now, these are all things that we can do on object level. 00:01:34.615 --> 00:01:37.949 For example, if we add a second object, 00:01:37.962 --> 00:01:41.538 we could combine those two objects together. 00:01:41.551 --> 00:01:45.513 Or we could separate them, or any of the things that happen 00:01:45.526 --> 00:01:47.179 to be in this list really. 00:01:47.564 --> 00:01:53.333 If we switch the Object Mode, 00:01:53.346 --> 00:01:55.128 we can switch to Vertex Painting Mode. 00:01:55.141 --> 00:02:00.000 You'll notice that, the items within the tool shelf changed, 00:02:00.013 --> 00:02:05.128 also, we now get some different menu items down here at the bottom. 00:02:05.141 --> 00:02:09.615 In fact, some different results, even after the this pull down menu. 00:02:09.628 --> 00:02:12.308 So if we take a look now, 00:02:12.321 --> 00:02:15.897 we've got this Brush menu, we've got this Paint menu. 00:02:16.154 --> 00:02:24.487 Now, let's just switch back to Object Mode and continue moving on. 00:02:24.500 --> 00:02:26.795 After the Object Mode, 00:02:26.808 --> 00:02:32.564 we've got the Viewport Shading Mode. The key ones here 00:02:32.577 --> 00:02:33.590 we really need to know about are the Wireframe, 00:02:33.846 --> 00:02:39.615 the Solid and the Texture. 00:02:40.128 --> 00:02:42.949 With these three, we've got some hotkeys. 00:02:42.962 --> 00:02:44.487 We've got Z, 00:02:44.615 --> 00:02:49.744 to toggle between our Wireframe and the Solid Shading Mode. 00:02:49.756 --> 00:02:54.487 Then Alt Z to toggle between 00:02:54.872 --> 00:02:58.974 the Solid Shading Mode and the Texture Mode. 00:02:59.359 --> 00:03:05.385 That gives me another opportunity to open up the Properties sidebar. 00:03:05.397 --> 00:03:10.128 Then just come over to the where it says Shading, 00:03:12.064 --> 00:03:13.718 this is related as well. 00:03:13.731 --> 00:03:15.513 This gives us an extra supplementary options 00:03:15.526 --> 00:03:21.410 to do with how things are displayed here. 00:03:21.423 --> 00:03:25.769 I just wanted to link these two parts together really. 00:03:25.782 --> 00:03:31.154 Now almost always, I switch from multitexture to GLSL. 00:03:31.282 --> 00:03:34.487 This is going to allow us to be able 00:03:34.615 --> 00:03:39.615 to see things like Normal Maps and Specular Maps in the Viewport. 00:03:39.628 --> 00:03:43.077 I basically switch that over for that reason. 00:03:43.090 --> 00:03:45.641 Also, I believe it should give us a little bit 00:03:45.654 --> 00:03:50.513 of a viewport performance increase anyway. Also while we're there, 00:03:50.526 --> 00:03:55.128 I just like to switch on Backface Culling. 00:03:55.141 --> 00:03:58.718 For example, if we go Shift A and add in a Mesh Plane, 00:03:58.731 --> 00:04:02.436 then I'm just going to left click 00:04:02.449 --> 00:04:05.641 on this green arrow with the manipulator here. 00:04:05.769 --> 00:04:09.103 That's just going to allow me to slide that Mesh Plane out. 00:04:09.115 --> 00:04:12.949 We're still in Texture View at the moment, 00:04:12.962 --> 00:04:16.282 which is why we're getting the shadowing from the lamp that we can see there. 00:04:16.295 --> 00:04:19.744 And then, if we just take a look underneath, 00:04:19.756 --> 00:04:21.795 we can see straight through it, basically. 00:04:21.808 --> 00:04:26.282 Whereas if we turn that Backface Culling back off, 00:04:26.538 --> 00:04:28.974 it gives the back faces some thickness. 00:04:28.987 --> 00:04:32.051 I like to read the scene in the way that 00:04:32.064 --> 00:04:34.744 again, is going to see in a way 00:04:34.756 --> 00:04:36.795 where it's not going 00:04:36.808 --> 00:04:39.872 to show me the back faces of what I'm modeling. 00:04:39.885 --> 00:04:44.615 It allows me to make sure that I've got the faces 00:04:44.872 --> 00:04:47.051 basically facing the right way. 00:04:47.064 --> 00:04:51.538 Also, you'll notice an option for some Ambient Occlusion there as well. 00:04:52.051 --> 00:04:54.359 I'm just going to leave that off for now though. 00:04:54.872 --> 00:04:56.923 If we press Z, 00:04:56.936 --> 00:05:00.000 we can toggle back to the Wireframe Mode. 00:05:00.013 --> 00:05:05.513 And then Z again for the Solid Shading Mode. 00:05:05.526 --> 00:05:07.436 That again, 00:05:07.449 --> 00:05:11.923 changes the way in the options that are showing here. 00:05:11.936 --> 00:05:16.026 Now we can see that, we've got this Texture Solid Mode, 00:05:16.038 --> 00:05:17.949 and we've got Matcap. 00:05:17.962 --> 00:05:21.538 Now, Texture Solid Mode is going to allow us 00:05:21.551 --> 00:05:24.487 to show some textures that happen to be loaded 00:05:24.872 --> 00:05:30.385 onto the individual faces in the Image Editor. 00:05:30.397 --> 00:05:32.692 We'll have to come back to that a little bit later on to fully absorb that. 00:05:32.705 --> 00:05:38.077 Otherwise we have these Matcaps. 00:05:38.090 --> 00:05:43.205 That’s like another way of being able to see our models 00:05:43.218 --> 00:05:45.769 in the scene without having to just look at 00:05:45.782 --> 00:05:50.256 these grey slight purplish hue 00:05:50.269 --> 00:05:53.205 we get to the lighting of the normals here. 00:05:53.333 --> 00:05:57.436 What we can do is, we can switch on Matcap, 00:05:57.449 --> 00:06:01.667 and then click on the Matcap itself. 00:06:01.679 --> 00:06:03.974 Then we get to see some other options here, 00:06:03.987 --> 00:06:09.103 so we can click through various different ways 00:06:09.615 --> 00:06:11.667 in which models get displayed. 00:06:13.077 --> 00:06:16.154 I'm just going to disable the Matcap for now though. 00:06:16.167 --> 00:06:19.231 Then let's move on to the other things in the 3D View.