Five More Blender Hacks In Three Minutes

In this follow-up to my last video, I'll show you five more great little time-saving tips and features in Blender.

[DECODEDVFX]

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[blenderinthegrass]

Something I discovered by thinking logically, which usually doesn't work, but did: If you have an object selected and hit the period key on the NumPad, that object shows front and center in the Viewport, as everyone knows. But, did you know that if you have an object selected, hover the cursor over the Outliner pane and hit period on the NumPad, the selected item will be displayed in the list? This is very useful when trying to find an object in the list and much faster than searching by name.

[AlimayoArango]

The bounds tip amazed me. Excellent video. Thank you.

[AndyTanguay]

These are cool..thanks for not always resorting to hotkeys. Too many tutorials out there rely on pre-2.8 hotkeys without explaining what's going on under the hood. Useless for people new to Blender.

It's the difference between running through a recipe, and actually teaching someone how to cook.

[metnee]

The best thing I know is "Alt + Middle Mouse Button" to snap your focusing to point where you are clicked, it is can be any place on a face of an object. Very helpful if the object is large or you need get very close to do your corrections and not lose the point at the slightest spin.

[lawrencedoliveiro]

0:37 I like to put my boolean cutter objects into a separate Collection called “Cutters”. This is excluded from the final render, and it is also easy enough to temporarily exclude it completely from viewport display, leaving only the effect of the boolean ops.

Once you set up this Collection, it is easy to add any new cutter objects to it, with MKEY and then select the Collection to move it to.

[jeffellis]

You can do the same boolean thing by enabling the standard Booltool addon (appears in the "N" tool panel under edit) and using Brush Boolean. For "difference" select the cutter object first then the target. Once difference is selected you have to click away then select the cutter to move it (it turns to wireframe as you move it). Selecting the eye icon toggles the cutter visibility. Very quick.

[manalsaada]

Great video . Nice and easy to follow.

[fecu]

Wow, almost 30k subs! I'm sure the last time I looked you just had a few hundred. Congrats in advance for the milestone and the channel's success.

[jeffellis]

Shift right click drag to move the 3d cursor, snap it where you want etc.

[JohnSmith-rnvl]

Snapping origin to geometry --- Maya users have an awesome way to place origin by pressing the insert key and then snapping the origin to vertices or can slide it along edges too. Blender 2.8 added a new way to do this. Press "N" or click on the right hand tool palette. Options > transform > locations now select origins and then press the magnet button in the top tool shelf. You can click anywhere on your mesh to place the origin. Pretty useful for motion graphics and precise origin placement when you are creating instances of geometry or arrays and then animating them.

[lawrencedoliveiro]

2:00 That takes you back to the origin, but your objects might not necessarily be there. Pressing HOME instead will take you to wherever your objects are.

[ryorei]

About Boolean you should watch one of the last gleb alexandrov video

[lawrencedoliveiro]

2:30 Or, if you have been naming your objects systematically, you can simply select the right name from the Outliner.

[dominikseitz]

I think your video content is very good, keep going 👍🏻 but please improve your audio. Even a mic for 50 bucks has a decent quality. This will make your videos much more professional.

[trelligan]

It sounds like you're in a closet! 🙂
Hang a few sound absorbers about face level when you're recording. There are specific things like curtains that you can buy, and Instructables has a few cheaper DIY options.

[vaazio]

Holding shit when o split the view port make a separate window, good for multi monitor setup!

[TheColinStein]

Tip 1 (BONUS): If you select the object you want to boolean, then the object you want to cut into, press Ctrl + Num - and it'll automatically turn the object into wireframe. Not sure who I learned that from but it's wildly helpful!

[mrnomore]

10 millions noob videos about Blender on YT make it impossible to find information. i hope you all become huge stars because it seems like it's more important to you then what you actually do for the Blender community...

[Klayx_]

Are you also atomic shrimp?
Your voices are extremely similar