Blender
Note
Armature Moves When Applying Transform
Ctrl+Alt+Q Quad View
Q = Quick favorites
press N to view the side menus
if instance collection is turned off. it will cause a problem in a linked proxy where the constraints are not carried
Blender is Z-up.
Navigation: MMB. Shift + MMB
Global and Local Orientation? Its in 3D menu below representing an XYZ axis
Uncheck User Preferences>File>Load UI
Press Shift to move things precisely; press Ctrl to snap; or enter numerical values and then use the X, Y, and Z keys to constrain the movements to their respective axes.
In Edit or Pose Mode, select every bone. With all the layers enabled (all the bones visible), press Alt+W to display the Bone Settings options. Alternatively, you can find those options in
Smooth Vertex
Solidify
Working with LoopTools
Pin: If you click the Pin icon, the current image is pinned and always shown independently of other objects you select. This tool can pin only images,however, not UVs.
blender + K cut
Ctrl + Tab 2.8
IN 2.8, no more N background image. Reference image is now a new object
Alt+Z/Shift Z for wireframe shading
F3 super search bar command
Double +G slide of vertices
1,2,3 to switch between vertices, edges and faces
pepakura paper model
export paper model from blender
Press Spacebar for more contextual menu.
Like the transparent shader, only pure white will make it transparent. The glass shader tends to cause noise due to caustics. Since the Cycles path tracing integrator is not very good at rendering caustics, it helps to combine this with a transparent shader for shadows
Blender Mask Tools 1.3. Sounds like Substance Painter
Bender is open gl for substance painter
Instead of height map. Use Displacement
To enter UV mode. You need to be in component mode. And the commands are not only in the UV editor but also in the regular viewport
transfer UV maps in blender - Select the “target” object. - Select the “source” object (this needs to be the active object) - Ctrl L , “Transfer UV maps”
Geometry Nodes
object info is the object merge in blender
dotted line performing a loop
Selection
Select one of the mesh’s vertices, edges, or faces, and press Ctrl+L. All the elements. Like ctrl+ F
Selecting loops: Place your cursor on top of an edge, press Alt, and right-click to select the whole loop.
Selecting rings: Place your cursor on top of an edge, press Ctrl+Alt, and right-click to select the whole ring.
Hold down Shift combined with either of these shortcuts to add to the selection.
This technique works with vertices, edges, and faces, but in the case of faces, selecting a loop or a ring returns the same results.
To quickly select a border, hold down Alt while you right-click the outer edges of the mesh twice.
Limit Selection to Visible
When you have the display mode in Wireframe (Z), you can select vertices, edges, or faces that are in front of the model, as well as those that are behind it.
Select Similar
After making a selection, pressing Shift+G shows different options depending on the type of element that you just selected.
Select Boundary Loop and Loop Inner-Region
You can find options for selecting the boundary loop and the loop inner region in the Select menu of the 3D View header and in the Edges menu (Ctrl+E).
Parenting in Blender in Hieararchy? You can’t do it by drag and drop. You have to select them (last the parent) and hit Ctrl+P
Grow/Shrink Selection Ctrl+Numpad + –
Select Edge Ring Loops Ctrl +Alt LMB
Alt + LMB = Loop select
Modelling
Affect pivot only:
Changing pivot: Modify the 3D Cursor ( Can also be manually inputed in the N view). Select the object. Then Object>Transform>Origin to 3D Cursor.
Tweak a vertex? Select + Drag it)
Enable AutoMerge (Disabled by default). Editing (Mesh -> AutoMerge Editing, there’s also a button for it in 3D view header),
Enable “Release confirms” in User Preferences > Editing, and it becomes exactly press-drag-release.
How to rotate per axis rather than on screen space (default)? Press X, Y,Z pa. Ugh) Or use manipulator instead. Need to click them by default. Ugh.
Delete all the vertices of the object but note that the object is still present in the outliner. Then ctrl RMB to create a point
In the mirror modifier. You have to click several option in the mirror modifier.
Grid Fill is like quad caps. F6 to adjust the spans
The rip tool is nice.Gettubg a new point and leaving the old one.
You might have accidentally pressed ⇧ ShiftT at some point, which is used for translating the texture space. As a side effect it enables texture space display as in the screenshot above.
If you disable texture space display, then they should go away.
Just changed the mode from Object Mode (etc) to Sculpt Mode and you will have different sidebar interface.
Generation of new topology can only be done through inflate brush
Masking? Press M how about invert? Its in the toolbar below along with View/Sculpt/Brush/Hide/Mask
The further you zoom in the higher the generation of dynamic topology
When you apply the Mirror modifier, some objects (such as the details of the arms, gloves, or boots) need to be separated so that each side of the object is a separate object. In Edit Mode, select the faces on one of the sides and press P to separate the current selection into a different object.
Press Ctrl+B and drag your mouse to increase or decrease the bevel size.
(You can launch the Bevel tool in vertices-only mode directly by pressing Ctrl+Shift+B.)
Blender’s Bevel tool is similar to the Chamfer tool in 3ds Max.
may be confusing, but Inset in Blender is similar to Bevel in 3ds Max, while Bevel in Blender is similar to Chamfer in 3ds Max.
Join and Separate (explained later) are similar to the Attach and Detach tools in 3ds Max.
Remove Doubles lets you automatically merge all the vertices that are very close to one another inside a range you can define.
A quicker way to slide, whether you’re working with vertices, edges, or faces, is to press G twice. The same options are available as when you slide the Loop Cut and Slide tool, such as pressing E and F to adapt the shape to the adjacent edge loops.
LoopTools is an add-on that’s built into Blender but not active by default. You can go to User Preferences and activate it within the Add-Ons tab. When it’s active, LoopTools is accessible from the Tools Region in 3D View and from the top of the Specials (W) menu in Edit Mode.
Select Face Loops (Just double click)
Control R in the loop cut
bisect equivalent to clip brushes in Zbrush
Switch Direction of the Curve - select all ( A ) - right click > Switch Direction. (or right click > D )
Convert Edge Loop to Curve - Select the edge loop and press Shift+D and Esc to put it back - Press P, seperate by selection - Select the new mesh and in object mode, press Alt+C and choose Curve from Mesh/Text
Sculpting
Hold F and LMB to adjust the file size.
Shift F + LBM for the intensity.
Control R to remesh.
Shift R to reveal the remesh grid
While masking, you can open the pie menu editor like A key to invert or sharpen the mask.
Draw face sets to have those colored polygons and hit H key to hide and unhide. To continue drawing face sets on existing ones, hit control,.
Ctrl W to expand face sets . Ctrl alt W to reduce the face sets.
Retopo
Click Edge. Ctrl + RMB. Extrudes the edge.
Double Tap G to slide around.
can immediately drag points. normally without the need for f2. same with maya
Grid fill.
create separate points that is not connected. (i.e. Ctrl + RMB
UV
Ctrl+ E Mark seam
warp uvs - animated uv
Select Island. (Select L)
You can create your own UV map using the Mark Seams tool (Ctrl + E) and the Unwrap tool (U key), you can make use of the automatic unwrapping functions such as Lightmap Pack or Smart UV Project.
I recommend unwrapping the UVs for the lightmap in Blender since the automatic UV mapper inside UE4 is too slow in some cases or doesn’t work at all.
To view the UV maps, go to the object part, then there are UV maps.
Option>Live Unwrap
3D Painting. Switch from Edit Mode to Paint Mode.
Baking in blender. Create an image texture node. Select it. And Go the Scene>Bake
Blender has projection painting. Quick Edit Apply
The difference is that whereas one face in a 3D mesh typically is connected to another, faces in the UV space can be freed from their neighboring faces, so you can apply a different texture to a different part of the model, even though the parts may be adjacent in the 3D model.
Lightmap Pack: This option is not recommended unless you want to create UVs in an automatic way, which can be useful for complex objects that don’t need to be very accurate
Animation Workflow
In the graph editor. Hit T for interpolation. Step or not. It is V. or under the points.
In the timeline window, hit M to add marker and contrl+M to rename the marker.
Shading
CCO Textures
Shift + K. fill for vertex painting
Set vertex colors
triplanar map = no node. just in image texture. blend textures.
Ctrl + T = Node Wrangle
Shift + W Node Wrangle options
Alt + RMB = Alt + LMB (in C4D) Cut nodes
lazy connect nodes
Therefore, Blender uses a few rules to determine if something is a UDIM texture or a sequence. These rules are:
There must be a file with number 1001
There must not be a file with a number below 1001
There must not be a file with a number above 1999
Shift + S = swap nodes
Shortcut
A: Select or Deselect All alt G to reset location transactorm E: Extrude F: Bridge (Select edges first) F: Drag to adjust the brush size. I: Inset M: Assign layers. O: Proportional editing. How to increase influence? P: Split Mesh X: Delete T: Toggle the Tools Panel U: Unwrapping menu W: Specials Menu. Changes details depending on what object is selected. (For armature, includes the flip names for the joint mirroring) N: Toggle the Navigation Panel (with some transform details). Clipping plane. Double G: Edge slide. Shift+A: Create objects. (if on a node editor, creates nodes) Shift+C: Reset 3D Cursor Shift+D: Duplicate Shift+E: Mean crease Shift+Z: Turn viewer into IPR (in 2.8, skeleto view Shift+V: To drag a render region Shift+R/F3: Repeat last command Shift+G = Select Similar Shift+F: Fine tune camera view (i.e. moves like a FPS camera) Shift+F drag to increase/decrease intensity Shift+S: Snapping and for moving the cursor Shift+H or numpad /: Hide / Solo Shift+Tab: Enable Snapping Ctrl+Up Arrow: Maximize layout Ctrl+A: Open the attribute editor Ctrl+L: Object instancing Ctrl+P: Parent Ctrl+E: Mark Seam Ctrl+H: Hook options like Maya Clusters. Available only when a curve is selected Ctrl+J: Combine Meshes Ctrl+R: Edge Loop cut Ctrl+T to triangulate Ctrl+Tab: Move from Object to Edit Mode Ctrl + “+/-” – Grow/Shrink Selection Alt+H or numpad / : Hide / Solo Alt+A: Play in the timeline Alt+R: Reset Transformation Alt+G: Reset to Grid Alt+M : Merging (Select two vertices) Alt+P: Clear Parent Alt + Z: For Xray Shift+Ctrl+C: Opens the constraints Period(.): To frame the curve in the graph editor Tab: Move from Edit Mode Numberpad /: Viewport Focus Numberpad .: Camera pivot like S in C4D or F in Maya Sculpting Ctrl+D: Dynotopo F and Shift F: Changing Size and Intensity In Box Mask with Ctrl+Shift, you go into Lasso.
Compositing
lens distortion node
V and Alt V in the compositing to be able to zoom back and forth the image.
FX Workflow
Particle should be in the bottom stack
Grease Pencil Basics
To use the Grease Pencil (which is mainly used for annotations in 3D View), press and hold down D while you left-click; then drag to draw. Press and hold down D while you right-click; then drag to erase the strokes. In the 3D View
Fluids. Check: Initial velocity of the smoke to carry over. To art direct.
For a rigid body physics simulation extreme unapplied scale transforms can cause very noticeable strange results, such as unnaturally fast or slow rotations depending on if the object is scaled up or down:
The resolution of the strands is controlled by the step values in particle settings. Each hair system uses the material identified in the particle settings.
If you activate children, the parents are no longer rendered. This can be enabled in the Render panel Parent Particles. By default, parent particles are not rendered because the shape of the children can be quite different from that of their parents.
Grease Pencil
uto lock layer //so you will only edit selected layer
Selection Mask //edit only the selected point
Paint Bucket – press “ctrl” for lasso //only fills area within the viewport
Clamp Layer //works like photoshop clipping mask
Multiframe //edit several selected frame at once “located next to selection mask”
Editing
Alt+A Video Editor Playback
K Cut/Strip Clip
Rendering
Max Ray Bounces affect the transparency depth
F12 always renders the active camera. If you want to move active camera to current viewport position, press Ctrl+Alt+Numpad 0.
uncheck refractive caustics