From the course: Blender 3.3 Essential Training

How to install and things to know - Blender Tutorial

From the course: Blender 3.3 Essential Training

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How to install and things to know

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- [Instructor] Now before we begin, you need to go over to blender.org and download Blender. Depending on what time you watch this video, this might say 3.3, 3.4, et cetera. Rest assured that this course is recorded with Blender 3.3 and has all the latest up to date information. As new features come out, we'll be sure to update this course. Also, one note, if you're a business or a freelancer, you'll be excited to know that this is a long term support or lts version. So Blender has promised to keep it up to date for the next two years with additional bug fixes. Now, let's go ahead and click on Download Blender and from here you can download Blender right away. I'm going to go back and while Blender's downloading, point out a couple of things. If you have other operating systems, you can go ahead and download those and you might be interested in Blender Experimental but we won't be covering any of that as those versions of Blender tend to be unstable and not ready for production. Once you load Blender for the very first time, you'll be greeted by this splash screen. A couple of notes, I'll be teaching in English and using the default Blender shortcuts. But if you come from Maya, Zebra, or Max, you might be interested in the industry compatible shortcuts. However, I'm not familiar with them, so I'm going to stick to the default Blender ones. We'll have Select With Left, and the Space bar hot key will be set to play. However, you can set it to search as well as that'll allow you to quickly search for any menu item inside a Blender just by hitting your space bar. Now let's go to Edit Preferences and the first thing you can see is Interface. Here, you can change the resolution scale to be a little bit bigger if it helps you, or even a little bit smaller. Let's come over to the Input tab. If you have a laptop, you may be interested in emulating the numpad. This will allow you to hit the one through zero key on top of your keyboard and quickly change your views inside a Blender. Now, I highly, highly, highly recommend you use a three button mouse when using Blender. You can emulate the middle mouse click with the Alt and Left mouse button. But trust me, your life is going to be significantly easier if you can use a three button mouse. Under System, you can enable any one of these depending on your operating system. You just need to enable the GPU if it's available to you. Save & Load is a really handy place. Blender will always save the previous version when you hit Ctrl + S, and the open file menu will have the last 10 available to you. But this is the best part. Blender will automatically save every two minutes. Later on, we're going to be using Rigify and running some Python scripts, so if you want to save yourself some effort, you can go ahead and check this on right now. If you ever crash while using Blender, I highly recommend you go to File, Recover, Auto Save. From here you'll see all of the auto saves that Blender generates. Blender will save every two minutes, so you're going to have a lot of files in here. If you find yourself running out of space, feel free to navigate to that folder on your computer and clear it out. Because, trust me, Blender will save a lot of files. All right, that does it for our Intro to Blender. Now let's move on to how to use the exercise files.

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