Blender For Dummies, 4th Edition

Index

Numbers

• 2D Animation. See also Grease Pencil
  • Full Canvas workspace, 462
  • overview, 461
  • presets for, 53
  • rendering, 502
  • start file, 462–463, 474–478
  • vector drawing and, 469, 473
• 2D cursor, 283
• 2D Full Canvas workspace, 53

• 3D Animation. See also Grease Pencil
  • photography and, 298
  • professional film and, 298
  • video and, 298
• 3D Animation workspace, 52
• 3D cursor
  • hotkeys for, 42
  • orientating with, 66
  • overview, 40–44
• 3D sculpting and retopology, 114–115
• 3D space
  • coordinate systems and, 64–67
  • empties as reference in, 91
  • navigating in, 32–35
  • objects in, 64–67
• 3D Viewport. See also interface
  • adding constraints in, 365
  • adding lights in, 301–303
  • Animation workspace and, 339–340
  • annotations, 48–49, 585
  • Armature Properties editor, 383–386
  • cascaded shadow maps and, 311
  • Custom Distance and, 307
  • defining keyframes in, 342–344
  • Empties in, 357–360
  • enabling object gizmos in, 68
  • hotkeys, 27, 346
  • images in, 158–163
  • importing images to, 159
  • Last Operator panel in, 47–48
  • metaball objects in, 216
  • navigating in, 32–44
  • objects in, 105, 166
  • orbiting scene in, 580–581
  • overview, 45, 461
  • particle systems in, 442–445
  • Quad View, 44–45, 581
  • Quick Effects submenu in, 434
  • search function and, 49–50
  • Sidebar in, 45–46
  • Toolbar in, 46
  • View orientation and, 66
  • viewport shading type and, 40
  • Workbench render engine in, 500–501
  • on workspace, 17

• 27X keymap
  • enabling, 41
  • extruding and, 90

A

• Absolute Offset checkbox, 200
• Accumulate checkbox, 174
• actions, 28, 99
• actions library, 425–426.