blender 2.5 alpha1 [basic vid guides]

#1

blender 2.5 alpha1 [basic vid guides]

i made these really for myself so i had a video help system as i got to know how blender works as i’m a 3dsmax guy but have an interest in blender of late…

so anyhow you may find them useful if like me your a total newb to blender coming from another 3d app.

preferences and viewport nav:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_XWhHEWLY8

split and merge viewports
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wVKcwN4hBk

move rotate scale and rename
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk5vcA9zfkE

edit mode basics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRvbPIOY6VQ

duplicating and marquee selections
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk3VPdrpTY8

camera move/rotate thru the camera view
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeLkk3dpnOw

rendering out an image and saving it to hard drive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_2xpAVJHxI

#2

Thank you.

#3

Sure is different than the 2.49b version, started to use the 2.5 alpha 1 today. I kind of miss the edit menu that was in the bottom of the older versions…

#4

Thanks very informative.
Pe

#5

part 8 poly smoothing angles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb6ER7YIZiE

part 9 materials basics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAloRhnJ_gU

#6

Bookmarked.

Thanks Stephen!!

#7

Good vids cresshead :slight_smile:

Here's some screengrabs showing how to subdiv a mesh.

First click the modifier tab on the right (it looks like a wrench)

[[img]http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/1231/subdiv1.th.jpg[/img]](http://img11.imageshack.us/i/subdiv1.jpg/)

Next, click the ‘Add Modifier’ button and go down to the ‘subdivision surface’ button

Now simply set the levels to your liking (you’ll want to leave it at catmull clark, as simple won’t do anything at this point). I prefer a minimum of 3 or 4 for a render.

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a few more for you!

modeling with modifiers overview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l35rWgEG6Y

lattice deformer vertex groups part1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z7QIwrOqZI

lattice deformer prt2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_TvuWlrZb4

vertex groups prt3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsHOfzW26rc

assign materials to selected polys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz7yPWC2Fa8

#9

thanks for sharing your experience with us :thumbsup:

#10

Creating that mesh (in your modifier video) was definitely a learning experience for me, and as such I have updated it to reflect an even more efficient use of modifiers (duplicated mirror modifier for example was just dumb, Solidify is awesome!). Also, I have noticed a bug in Blender where, in the Array Modifier, it does not refresh the start and end caps when opening a file. In order to get them back, just retype their names into the appropriate fields (on the straps). Anyways, this file should be a lot cleaner:

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Also, and fairly unrelated, what software are you using for screencast with audio?

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techsmith camtasia

i have version 3 which was a freeby on a VERY old issue of 3dworld magazine…way back when 3dsmax 7 came out!

#13

Thanks - these look very useful.

Richard

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video editing basics in blender 2.5 alpha 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh8Q2Qh3GSM

video editing cont, vectascope etc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7CuPb9bQAI

soft cut vs hard cut video editing in blender 2.5 alpha 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_Rao0NB0mE

#15

Awesome work guys! Thanks a lot.

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rendering out a video edit with audio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0CK0mNFJjM

just adding a how to export your video/audio from blender sequence editor…the tutorial is a bit annoying in that the audio is running ahead of the video abit…this was due to a crash with blender on a previous attempt at the tutorial so my laptop was ‘not happy’ and really wanted a re boot i think to clear the ram up…remember blender 2.5 is alpha currently!!

#17

totally needed them :beer: keep 'em comingggg thnx

#18

Thanks for these tutorials, very helpful! I’m really excited at how much Blender 2.5 is developing.

For those asking about the screen capture stuff you can find a free screen cap app here http://camstudio.org/ It isn’t as pretty as the new Camtasia but it is free!

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Do you have advice as far as adjusting your pivot in Blender? In Maya, you press the insert key to reposition the pivot but I can’t seem to find it in Blender 2.5. I know the Shift-S will bring up the pivot menu but I don’t see anything close to what I want or I totally missed it. I’m tring to snap the pivot to a vertex but the closest I get is “near” the point I want by right clicking. Is this why everyone seems to base their Duplicates on the origin when setting up a Lathe?

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2 ways

  1. in the 3dview header you can change the pivot point
  2. move the origion to where you want, object->transform->origion*