November 2025
Beginner
702 pages
21h 49m
English
book
Blender for Beginners Part 1 - Third Edition
by 3D Tudor (Neil Ian Bettison), Vanessa Haralambous
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Unleashing the Potential of Blender’s Outliner and Add-On Ecosystem
Alright, this chapter is where we stop winging it and finally get our Blender scenes under control. If your Outliner is a mess, your collections are all over the place, or you have ever lost an object to the abyss of your 3D Viewport, this one is for you. I like to think of it as Blender’s version of Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, but with fewer folded socks and more hidden empties and duplicated cubes. It is all about asking the right questions: What does this object do? Do I need it? Can I make Blender less of a headache and more of a creative playground?
We will start with the Outliner, which you briefly met back in Chapter 1, but this time, we are ...
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