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Welcome to character creation.

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Of course.

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My name is Sandra.

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In this course, I'm going to teach you all the basics about splendor, about modeling, about the sculpting

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and the ways of workflows that you can use to make great characters all in when there is free mazing

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seltzer.

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So with that, anything else, let's get into this, shall we?

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So first of all, let's go to the settings, the preferences of Blender.

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You go there by edit preference.

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And there are some important settings that I want to show you here.

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First of all, in seven note, as you can see, the separations is set to one by default.

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It means whenever you save your blender file, it makes another file by the name of Blender one.

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And if you change it to a two, it makes another two versions of your blender scenes.

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This will quickly make your disk space full.

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So I usually tend to set it to zero.

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So I only have one version of Blender.

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But you need to keep track of your saving saving your funds constantly so you don't lose your work.

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But fortunately, Blender has a very Bernard does a very good job at saving your scene as it automatically

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saves your scene.

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So if you lost if you if your blender crashed and the more you go to file, it will recover and also

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save.

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And you can see here the auto saves that blender did for you.

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And the time that it saved the blender saved your scene.

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So I tend to keep that on the zero.

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So I don't have a lot of funds and all that.

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So if you go to system by default, the cycle run device is set to none.

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When you install Blender, if you have a G6, if you have a great graphics card, you have to set it

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to each one of these options.

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If you have a card on CUDA, as I did.

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If you have an artist card card, just set it on optics.

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All right.

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And then when you go to this panel, the same panel, the renders and their properties, you see that

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we have Emmy and then we have cycles.

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And by default, it is set to keep you.

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If you go, there are now a default.

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You can see that it is set to see you.

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So change it to GP.

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You remember that and if you want to keep this in GPU, whenever you open your blender scene you need

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to go to file and then defaults and then save as sort of for it.

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Save everything here, even your camera rotation.

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So if you save it like this, like if your view is like this and you go to fine and defaults, it is

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sort of file it will save like this and whenever you open your blender it will be like this.

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So keep that in mind.

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But if you want to always cycle the use your graphic card, you have to do that.

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And graphic cards like usually if you have a good graphic card is usually faster than CPU.

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Let's go back to preferences here.

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We have on the steps by default it is set to 32 and that's called loop for what we were doing, specially

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when you were sculpting.

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There are a lot of times that you need to go back, undo you need you made a mistake and you need to

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go back and get your previous results.

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So I recommend you to just increase this amount to the limit, which is which is 256.

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And by doing that, it takes a lot of more memory, blender uses a lot of lots more memory.

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And when you have a lot of geometry in your scene, when you're sculpting maybe and you have a lot of

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geometry, it might get slow for you.

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It depends on your computer, on how powerful your computer is, but it might get slower.

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So if it if it did get slower by any time in the future, when you're doing your work, go here again,

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preferences system and on the steps decrease these amounts.

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All right.

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I'm just going to put it on 256.

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The other options are fine.

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If you go to Kmart, you can see that the default mouse bottom two for selection is on left.

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It means if you click on your left mouse button, it will select your object.

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And if you click on the right mouse button, it will it will bring up the context menu.

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If you don't want it, you can change it to right.

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So without the mouse, the selection will be the right amount sponsor by default, the space for action

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is set to play.

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It means whenever you press on your space keyboard, on your keyboard, as you can see, animation will

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be played.

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This piece is shown here.

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But as this is character creation, of course, and you want to make characters, you don't need animations,

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you may need them when you're done with the character and you want to animate it.

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But for now we don't need the animation part, right?

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So I set it on search the means.

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Whenever I press space, this search menu will come up and I can search whatever I want in the ads on

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any object I have and the setting that I want.

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I can search that.

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And for example, I usually use this match rename to quickly rename my objects.

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I have my C and that is very useful.

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The other option tools allows you to when you press space to bring up these tools that we have over

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here on the other menu, it is difference in screen object more it is this toolbar and if you go to.

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Sculpts molds.

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How do you press space?

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You can see that all the brushes are shown here and that can be useful.

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But I use another method to use shortcuts in my in my sculpt mode, which I will show you.

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So I started on search.

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Now those things are good.

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For now, we can move on to navigation by default is set on turntable.

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What if you change it to triangle?

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It will be it will be like this if you like.

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Could be considered to track books.

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I don't like to use the default one on your turntable.

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If you check this box or box or installation as the name implies in your mind you have objects like

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objects, and you select this object that it will be orbiting around this.

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Obviously, if you move this object here, then you orbit around your viewport.

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You can see that I'm going around my solution over here.

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I tend to turn this off because it may make things messy when you have old objects and you want just

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to rotate it around your ward or region or your 3D cursor.

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So I turn that off, but you can turn them on.

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It's a good option when you're like been have problems orbiting around you.

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We put another option we have here which is off by default is zooms or mouse position in means.

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If I turn this on whenever I have a couple of objects then I like, I'm here and I'm zooming.

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It will zoom based on this objects I have.

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It becomes very helpful in Scott's model, for example, when we're in a sculpt sculpting.

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Well, drawing.

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It will only zoom in on my cursor here.

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So if I'm drawing here, if only if I will zoom in this area.

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And if I'm drawing here and then I zoom, it will zoom to this area.

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So it will become very helpful.

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And I try.

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I tend to turn this on, so keep that in mind.

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But going to inputs, if you have a keyboard in Numpad you can by default is off.

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So let it be off.

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But if you don't have a keyboard with Numpad, for example, if you're using a laptop that doesn't have

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a number, you can turn this on by tying the dots on your numbers on your keyboard will act like how

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the numbers do in Blender.

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The numpad will change your view, so if you click on one, it will go to France view and you can see

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the view here.

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France, if you go three, you will go to the side view.

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If you hit seven, it will go to top view.

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So those are the we use.

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That's the key.

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Plus a coupon we can go to very quickly.

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So if you don't have a numpad, you can take that on.

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Check that box right here.

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And if you don't have a mouse, the three button mouse, like if you have a tube, two button mouse

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or if you lose.

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And that's so I was saying you can turn this on, but that option gives you the ability to by holding

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alt as you can see below my mouse but hold the alt so you can go around and clicking on the screen,

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you can go around and that will be useful when you don't have to put too much.

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All right.

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I think that's all the other ones or there are a lot of add ons here they can use.

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We usually use just a few, maybe the mesh of two we will use it and the Wi-Fi, we will probably use

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it, but we'll discuss those later in the course.

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All right.

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I think that's it for the preferences.

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Okay.

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In the next video, we are going to take a look at the one that you are in all these options.

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We're going to I'm going to explain them to you so you have a better idea to how to use them into your

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advantage.

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I recommend I recommend you to watch both the UI with you, because even if you even if you're not a

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beginner, if you know your stuff, you know, like how they do and how the options do, how the menus

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do it all.

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It's always good to do a review and make sure that the foundation of how you understand the 3D walks

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in the sun, how in the works, it helps a lot.

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So and so.

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Next with you.

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Goodbye.