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Blender Quick Start Guide
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Blender Quick Start Guide

by Allan Brito
September 2018
Beginner
194 pages
3h 55m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using pie menus in Blender 2.8

Among the new features of Blender 2.8, pie menus, offer a quick way to change modes and pick selection types in the program. An essential aspect of pie menus is that it is an Add-on for Blender. What is an Add-on?

This is something like a plugin for Blender, written in Python. With an Add-on, you can easily choose whether you want it as part of Blender or not. All add-ons in Blender have a control panel where you can enable and disable them.

To open that panel you have to use the Edit menu and choose User Preferences….

There you will use a tab called Add-ons, and from the list on the left, you can pick the category of a particular add-on that you want to control. What if you don't know the location of an add-on? ...

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ISBN: 9781789619478