Mastering Blender

Appendix A. Solutions

Chapter 1: Controlling Your Environment

Set the options available to you in the User Preferences window.

A wide variety of often-overlooked options are available in the User Preferences window, including settings for View & Controls, Edit Methods, and Themes, among others.

Master It

Create your own preferred default starting state and save it so that it will be active every time you start Blender.

Solution

When the desired options have been set and the desired starting window configuration is in place, press Ctrl+U to save the settings to a .Blend.blend file. Place this file in your .blender directory and open Blender with your new options in place. (A sample .Blend.blend file is included on the disk that accompanies this book.) ...