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I've been trying to work with Blender lately, but it's deffinately a difficult program, so can anyone lead me to a really basic tutorial or something that could help me out?
You can also learn a bunch of stuff by just messing around, too. Also, there are multiple forums dedicated to Blender. I myself am a member of BlenderArtists and the BlenderNewbies forums, and got some good advice for my mini-figure on both those sites.
Both Sméagol's and Littlebrick's links are good ones to follow. Noob to pro can help you learn some basic stuff, and by joining Blender forums you'll be able to ask some questions to an entire community of Blender users. Much better than asking difficult CGI questions to a community of stop motion artists, and a handful of Blender users.
That's how my brother learned how to use blender a few years ago.
This is going to sound really n00bish, but can someone give me like a list of shortcut keys, like how to copy, paste, delete, select, etc.
Rotate view; Alt+left click
Pan; Alt+Shift+left click
Paste(duplicate); Shift+D
Select; Right click
Select multiple objects; Shift+right click
Grab=G
Rotate=R
Scale=S
Did I forget any?
cut
Dunno, sorry
cut
As in delete? If so, then hit x.
I might have a few questions later... Oh and if you have seen any blender space ship rendering, there usually is a space background. Anyone know how to get that space backgound? Like just some stars?
There's a star setting in the world texturing menu.
thx. notha' question. How do i control the camera? I realize the black pyramid is the camera, but how do i veiw what IT is veiwing, as well as rotate, pan, and etc
Last edited by eoh49 (July 3, 2010 (06:24pm))
The 0 on the numberpad.
shortcut for select none?
A is select/deselect all. And to rotate and pan the camera the same principles apply: G to grab it, S to scale it, and R to rotate it.
but how do i see what the CAMERA is seeing?
Press the numberpad 0 if you're on a full keyboard. If you're on a laptop, the drag down the top of the screen (right above the file, add, render, and all that stuff) and go to System and OpenGL, the hit Emulate Numpad. Then just hit the 0 at the top of the keyboard in the row.
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