Common Blender Problems, Mistakes & Fixes for Beginners

Just starting out with Blender? Here are some common problems that you may encounter - and how to fix them!

TIME STAMPS
1:11 How to Open & Close Panels
3:09 How to Position Your 3D Camera
5:39 How to Hide & Show Objects
6:32 Why Extrude (and Knife) May Not Work Properly
11:29 How to Reduce Noise in Final Render

⭐NEW TO BLENDER? BEGINNER TUTORIAL SERIES HERE⭐

1. Open & Close Panels
Simply drag on the 3 diagonal lines in the top right (or bottom left) corner to split or collapse your panels. Each panel can be changed to show anything you want.

2. How to Position Your Camera
You can either position the camera at the current viewport position, use First Person View or lock the view to the camera.

3. How to Hide & Show Palens
Press 'H" to hide the currently selected objects. Shift+H will hide everything that is NOT selected. Press ALT+H to unhide everything.

4. Why Extrude (and Knife) May Not Work Properly
Do not scale your model in Object mode as this will distort the vertex normals. Scale in Edit mode or 'Apply' the transformation in Object mode to normalise the normals :)

Also, remember to properly UNDO any extrude operations to avoid duplicated edges. These can cause issues when trying to use the Knife in Blender.

5. How to Reduce Noise in Final Render
You can increase the number of samples to get cleaner renders. However, note that this will also increase your render time.

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[bleenpaper]

One Tip from me: If you have douplicate edges and you have gone far from creating them, you can select all ("a") and go to "Mesh>Clean Up>Remove Doubles" to remove (Really) identical vertices. You can also set the merge limit in the "tool shelf" ("t"), but pay attention to not break a lot of stuff, by e.g. setting the merge limit to high!

[cherrydragon]

Oh my god... i've been struggling with double edges on my building model D:
I'm so glad you made this video!! I mean, my minecrafy zombie and treasure chest are great results thx to you as well. But my building was messed up beyond repair

[psssantosh]

now this is an important topic, anyone who wants to learn Blender should DEFINITELY SEE THIS!:D

[VideoProfessional]

I can’t believe how perfect your channel is for so many people! You have all the right content to make a Hollywood movie!!!! Thank you so much I am almost 1 month into blender and I’m already rigging a car because of your tutorials!

[HammerdownProtocol]

Gods truly do walk among us. We're not worthy!! Seriously, you have no idea how long I've scoured the internet, looking for some of the stuff in your Blender series. I salute you sir.

[maddylufkin]

Thank u Sir I have been facing this problem when I started Blender 2017 and then I stooped bec. I was facing the Camera problem...now its all right now I can continue my Project.^^

[bobscaricatures]

Thank you that was a nicely explained tutorial, helped me out and made me chuckle as well.

[bepowerification]

at 0:05 I was admiring your work and how glorious you blendered that ikea table that pretty everyone including me has got... then you walk into the "rendering"..

[farhangilani]

6:32 you saved my life.. i was stuck whole day with this.

[nielsencs]

Dude, you've done it again! Your tutorials always seem to cover the things that more famous Blenderists miss, like "it doesn't work if your mouse cursor is on the outliner". Keep it up! :)

[zeonggamer]

Thank You So Much Bro You Fixed My Problem

[jkristia]

Thank you very much for this beginner tutorial playlist. Being new to blender these tutorials were a great help to get started

[tarviky]

I wouldn't recomend to touch samples to reduce noise because they drastically increasing render times for normal scenes. There is new feature called "Denoiser". You just hit that one button and you forget about noise. Also near the "samples" settings there is "Clamp indirect", it's also reducing noise dramatically. Overall there are about 15 different places in Blender where you can go to to reduce the noise. But the new "Denoiser" feature usually does all you need without increasing render times

[robertheadrick]

Loved this series! Probably the best set of beginner tutorials I've found for Blender, really covered the basics in a simple, straightforward way that was easy to follow. Do you have any plans to continue with more intermediate and advanced tutorials in Blender?

[knightlessshadow]

I really appreciate the time stamps :D

[HitfilmSensei]

Love this video! Thanks for making it.

[swannschilling]

Legit!! Apply transforms is kinda hidden when coming from 3ds max!! :)

[hyperegg]

There was a very slight error that you said. at 5:50, you said "shift H" - "hides everything". You are not incorrect, but the short-cut is actually used to "hide everything, but the selected items".

So if you select the 1st cube then pressed "shift H" then the 2nd & 3rd cubes would be hidden but the 1st cube will stay unhidden.

Great video, I am a beginner and there were so many great tips that I haven't heard of before.

[noirwolfcreations]

it was a very nice tutorial for the beginners..

[Halfful]

OMG thank you for the extrude advice!!!!