Learning Blender: A Hands-On Guide to Creating 3D Animated Characters

Navigating the 3D View

Now that you know what’s going on in the 3D View, let’s see how to navigate through it to check your scene and get in touch with the world you’re creating. When your cursor is hovering in the 3D View, you can perform a variety of actions to change your point of view.

Tip

To use Blender’s default navigation configuration efficiently, it is highly recommended that you use a keyboard with a NumPad and a mouse with a scroll wheel and middle button (see Figure 2.5). If you don’t, you can still navigate with other buttons by setting them up in the User Preferences, or with the conventional number keys on a keyboard, but you will have limited functionalities and navigation won’t be as smooth.

Figure 2.5 Most of the buttons ...