Green - Design: December 2010

Friday, December 31, 2010

http://www.junauza.com/2010/01/20-more-awesome-gimp-brush-sets.html

Icons: 50 Most Beautiful Icon Sets Created in 2008

http://www.noupe.com/freebie/50-most-beautiful-icon-sets-created-in-2008.html

GIMP: How to Use Photoshop Brushes in GIMP

How to Convert Photoshop Brushes to GIMP Brushes -- powered by eHow.com

Thursday, December 30, 2010

GIMP: Using Paths and Foreground Select Tool

GIMP: Using Color & Fuzzy Select Tool

The Gimp - How To Use The Colour & Fuzzy Select Tools - Celebrity bloopers here

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Icons: Loads of free icons from Dryicons.com

http://dryicons.com/free-icons/

Friday, December 24, 2010

Blender: Super3boy's Sixth Blender Tutorial(Materials - Blender 2.5)

Blener: Super3boy's Seventh Blender Tutorial(Animation - Blender 2.5)

Blender: Super3boy's Eighth Blender Tutorial(Scene - Blender 2.5)

Blender: Super3boy's Ninth Blender Tutorial(Particles - Blender 2.5)

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Blender: Hot Keys Cheat Sheet

General
ESC	Stops ongoing operation
TAB	Toggles Edit/Object mode
ZKEY	Toggles Solid/Wireframe display
CTRL-Z	Undo
SHIFT-CTRL-Z	Redo
CTRL-N	Open New Default File
CTRL-O	Open File
CTRL-S	Save
SHIFT-CTRL-S	Save As
F-12	Render Camera View
CTRL-U	Save as Default

Editing
XKEY	Invoke X-Axis
YKEY	Invoke Y-Axis
ZKEY	Invoke Z-Axis
AKEY	Toggle select all/select none
Right Mouse Button	Select object/sub-object
BKEY	Box select
CKEY	Circle select
CKEY-LMB	Circle Mouse-over select
GKEY	Grab (move)
RKEY	Rotate
SKEY	Scale
XKEY	Delete
MKEY	Blender Layers
SHIFT-CTRL-ALT-C	Origin to Geometry
CTRL-TAB	Sub-Object Selection Menu
ALT-RMB	Loop Select
CTRL-ALT-RMB	Face Loop Select
CTRL-V	Vertex Menu
CTRL-E	Edge Menu
CTRL-F	Face Menu
SPACEBAR	Search Menu
CTRL-R	Loop Cut and Slide
KKEY-LMB	Knife Cut Exact
SHIFT-KKEY-LMB	Knife Cut Midpoints
VKEY	Rip Tool
SHIFT-S	Snap Menu
ALT-S	Clear Scale
ALT-R	Clear Rotation
ALT-G	Clear Location
OKEY	Proportional Editing
FKEY	Make new Face/Edge

Navigation
CTRL-ALT-Q	Toggle Quad View
CTRL-UP ARROW	Toggle Full Screen
NUMPAD-1	Front View
NUMPAD-3	Right Side View
NUMPAD-7	Top View
CTRL-NUMPAD-1	Back View
CTRL-NUMPAD-3	Left Side View
CTRL-NUMPAD-7	Bottom View
NKEY	Toggle 3D Editor Properties Panel
TKEY	Toggle 3D Editor Tools Panel
NUMPAD-0	Camera View
NUMPAD-5	Toggle Perspective/Orthographic
CTRL-ALT-NUMPAD-0	Align Camera to View
JKEY	Cycle Render Slots

Modeling
SHIFT-A	Add object
EKEY	Extrude
CTRL-LEFT MOUSE	Extrude (here)
SHIFT-E	Extrude Edges
SHIFT-D	Duplicate
ALT-D	Linked Duplicate
CTRL-P	Parent
ALT-P	Clear Parent
CTRL-J	Join Objects
PKEY	Separate
ALT-C	Convert
CTRL-H	Hooks

Curves
HKEY	Toggle Free/Aligned Handles
VKEY	Vector Handles
SHIFT-HKEY	Auto Handles

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Blender: Materials, Lights & Rendering (Part 2)

Blender: Materials, Lights & Rendering (Part 1)

Materials, Lights & Rendering Part 01 from Oliver Villar Diz on Vimeo.

Blender: How to Edit Objects (Modelling)

Blender 2.5 - How to edit objects (Modelling) from Oliver Villar Diz on Vimeo.

Blender: How To Use Modifiers

Blender 2.5 - How to use modifiers from Oliver Villar Diz on Vimeo.

Blender: Creating and Transforming Objects

Blender 2.5 - Creating and Transforming objects from Oliver Villar Diz on Vimeo.

Blender: How to get a recent Blender build

How to get a recent Blender build from Oliver Villar Diz on Vimeo.

Blender: Interface tutorial on Blender 2.5

Blender 2.5 - Basic Interface from Oliver Villar Diz on Vimeo.

Notes on Blender Interface:

Defaults:
Middle Mouse - To rotate the view or orbit the view
Shift + Middle Mouse - Pan the view
Ctrl + Middle Mouse - Zoom in and out

Full Screen : Shift + Space Bar (Ctrl + Up Arrow)
Properties scroll: Middle Mouse + Drag

Num Pad Interface:
. -> Centere Object
0 -> Camera view (This will be the rendered image)
1 -> Front Persepective
5 -> Switch b/w Persp and Ortho
3 -> Right view
7 -> Top View
2,4,6,8 -> Rotate in increments

Duplicate window/interface: Ctrl+Alt+W
Duplicate Panel: Shift + Drag out

Panels and its headers

Timeline: Select current screen in animation, select frame range to render etc.

Graph Editor: Edit ipo curves or animation curves. http://www.5min.com/Video/How-to-Use-Basic-Key-Framing-and-IPO-Curves-in-Blender-37103938

Dope Sheet: Adjust timing for objects in animation.

NLA Editor: Non Linear Animation Editor enables to mix diffent action and compile with Dope Sheet and mix in NLA as a video editor. We can mix animations together.

UV Image Editor: Editing UV of an image.

Video Sequence Editor: is video editor.

Text Editor: We load scripts and run them. We can also write documentation for that scene.

Node Editor: For composing materials, textures, and compositing the final render.

Logic Editor: We add properties and reactions to objects in game engine.

Properties: Render, Layers, Shading, Performance, Post Processing, Output, Anti-Aliasing, Full Sample Motion Blur, Dimensions, Stamp, Bake.

Outliner: We can see all the objects we have in the scene.

Info: Top most menu with file, Add, Render, Help, interface template etc.

File Browser: For browsing files.

Console: for programs
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Create new interface template:
Click '+' -> Enter new name ->

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Different ways to accessing user Prefs.
1. File -> User Pref
2. CTRL + Alt + U (Opens in new window - not very useful)
3. Divide window and open user pref panel (this is preferred)
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Some Useful user pref settings:

Interface: * Rotate around selection (Makes the camera move around the selected point)

Editing: * Release Confirm (When moving object, with this checked you need not click to confirm)

Input: Choose turntable or Trackball style.

System: Lights in 3d View (Does not affect Render).

To save the changes press 'Save as Default' or press Ctrl+U
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