18 Quick Tips for Blender and Cycles (#2)

Get better at CG every day with this collection of Blender quick tips. Today, get ready to digest 18 Blender tricks, total productivity boosters.

0:16 - Press Shift+R to repeat the action
0:39 - Copy-paste attributes
1:36 - Copy-paste objects across Blender scenes
1:56 - Flip the Camera view
2:26 - Preview luminosity in False Color
2:50 - Transparent background
3:05 - Compress .blend files
3:23 - Click and drag images to Blender
4:12 - Copy-paste attributes on hover
4:39 - CTRL + Mouse Wheel to scrub through the presets
5:03 - Emulate 3 button mouse
5:20 - What's the path to Blender config?
5:42 - ALT + LMB to select by depth
6:14 - SHIFT+CTRL+S to Save As
6:33 - CTRL+ALT+NUMPAD 0 to set the camera view
6:53 - Ambient Occlusion in the viewport
7:12 - Select grouped
8:00 - Create a circular hole

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[GlebAlexandrov]

If you know some other really cool secret Blender tricks, go ahead and share them! (I'll steal).

[svg]

Videos like these make me think about the possibilities of Blender and how powerful it is. The amount of work that is put into providing all of this in the program is just amazing for an open-source software.

[galledark]

That CTRL + ALT + 0 i didn't know it... O_O
My life is complete now thanks man !

[DjTasteless]

you made the shortcuts even shorter! - Didn`t know about those scroll- options! THX!

[andyp]

Love these kind of tips videos. Doesn't matter how long I use Blender, there is always something I didn't know about . Also, your videos are entertaining in their own right. Thanks, Gleb!

[TorSkywalker]

Again incredibly useful stuff! Usually we can only slowly discover these little features over time - thank god there are videos like these!(:

[OlavD]

Selecting by depth was a great tips! Thanks

[andrebalesdealmeida]

Excellent video. Congratulations!
Videos for upcoming with these hacks teach the viewport rendering system. How to use for example "mist" to make a depth of field map or render the smoke that the blender's own viewport presents!

Thanks Gleb keep up the great work

[spacejunk]

All these tricks can save a huge amount of time!

[macc.g.i]

Thanks Gleb. Without you, we wouldn't know these tips and we would end up wasting time.

[jefflhama]

the best series for who knows something about blender

[dannorris]

Thanks, Gleb. Really useful! I'm annoyed I didn't know some of these, would have saved so much time!!

[wolverine]

Excellent tips! Proud to say I already knew some of these...

[TheSupertuffe]

Fantastic tips! Great work! The LoopTools was an absoplute eye-opener, I have struggled to make circular cuts on flat surfaces for some reason :)

[GubinP]

Hey Gleb! You can actually ctrl+c ctrl+v objects between scenes usual way. But other copy paste options are really usefull via the addon though. Thanks for the tips!

[romeburns]

Everyone probably knows, but when you are saving files or images from Blender pressing the Number Pad + key increments the file number for you. I mention it as I saw you highlight the number in the filename and type in a new number when you talked about the ctrl-shift-s save as shortcut

[stephenreeves]

Great tips Gleb - thank you - as ever!

[Extrone]

I was looking for the last one for so long. Thanks

[orcsaid]

Another great video Gleb! Thanks dude!!

[Hurlibutz]

Hey Gleb, I enjoy your vids and today I learned some rly helpfull hidden tricks, thx man!