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Olav Blender Course

Grease Pencil
Basic 2.8 Grease pencil – Blender Developers
Brushes, Layers, Materials
Grease Pencil vs Annotations

The cube is the default object in Blender and a great way to learn about Blender Object and Edit Modes.

Prerequisites’
– User Interface
– Navigation
– Basic Layout (Template)

Delete the startup cube.
Create new cube.
– F9 to open last operatons panel of the cube

Using xyz Math to create art tutor4u – very good

How to make a 3d heart – olav3d – good

Animating with Python CG cookie

b-1040-BlenderNavigation
Navigation is the first skill you must master if you are going to be proficient in Blender.
Basic screen orientation (my video)
Navigational Orientation – jkh_video

——- new section rotation with selected object

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Blender Fundamentals -Navigation
Selecting objects
Manipulation of the Viewport – not an object
—- Vectors —
In Blender vectors generally refer to an (x,y,z) coordinate
– Vectors and Scalars (General Overview – Kahn Academy

Centering Camera on selected object – numpad .

b-1030 User interface – Blender Video
The UI is made up of menus, viewports, and panels.
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workspaces (Top Menus)
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Panels

b-1031 Quick Tools
Quick Tools (t)
Grease Pencil
Quick Settings (n)
3d Cursor
– shift rtclick to set position
Pie Menus
Video Timeline
Properties
Options
Render Tab
Output Tab
View Layer Tab
Collections Panel – Collections Panel scripting
General Scene Tab
World Settings
Object Tab
Modifier Tab
Particles Tab
Physics Tab
Constraints Tab
Floor Constraint
Object Mesh Data
Material Tab
Texture Tab
Light and Canera Settings

b-3010.2010-BSDF-PrincipledShad

Principle Shader (BSDF) -Andrew Price -Blender Guru

PBR – Physical Based Rendering – CG Masters
— Materials

When not to use – CG Cookie – KH Trammell

Why amazing

Why Not to Use

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Principled Shader -PBR (Physically Based Rendering)
Values are 0 -1, but larger values can be keyed in

Non – Metal Materials – Dielectric Materials ——————-

Fresnel – controlled by Specular value
Specular Tint

Index of Refraction (IOR)

— Metal Materials ————————-
Metallic Slider
Roughness Slider

Subsurface Scattering

Subsurface Slider

Programming in Python

Introduction to Python– console, addon programming

Animating with Python – CGcookie

First Script

General Overview
How yo set units (length, degrees, time etc.) –
The CG Essentials

How to Measure object mode measurement tool

Snapping to grids lines, vertex, etc.

Measurements – In Edit Mode
Another video for edit mode

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General Overview

It is easy to overlook measurements when you first use Blender. But at some point you will reach the level that you need to know precisely wher and what size your objects are.

UV Mapping

Start Video –vert good – Darin Lile