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Increasing selection speed in Blender

Nikita

Blender since version 2.80 has experienced a significant slowdown in objects selection in the viewport. This becomes visible when we quickly click in turn on several objects. The selection lag is sometimes so long that some of the clicked objects will not be selected. The cursor has already moved to the next object, and the selection of the current one still did not happen.

The selection delay occurs because by default Blender has the “Box Select” mode enabled in the T-toolbar.

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Switching between vertex-edges-faces selection by ctrl+tab

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In Blender 2.79, in mesh edit mode to switch between the selection of vertices-edges-polygons a drop-down menu called by the ctrl+tab keycode was used. In 2.9 and later versions, the selection through this menu has been replaced with pressing the 1-2-3 keycodes. However, if necessary, the selection via the drop-down menu can be returned back.

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Difference between the “eye” and the “monitor” icons when hiding objects

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To hide objects in the 3D Viewport window, we can click the “eye” icon in the outliner near the desired object name (press the “H” shortcode), or we can click the icon with the “monitor” image. In both cases, the object will be hidden.

So, what’s the difference between these two variants?

It is very simple:

Clicking on the “eye” icon hides objects only in the currently active scene of the blend file.

Pressing the icon with the “monitor” hides objects in all scenes of the blend file at once.

Setting up the scene environment for convenient retopology

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To make our retopology process faster and easier, the scene environment may be slightly adjusted.

 

First, let’s enable snapping, set “Face” mode, and enable snapping to “Active” in the “Snapping With” section.

Also, check the “Backface Culling” checkbox so that the active retopology points do not magnetize to the backside of the processed mesh.

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BMusic Player

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BMusic Player

Are you crazy about music? Music can change the mood and talk to you. Listening to music is a favorite hobby and entertainment for most people.

Here is an addon that does the job for you. ‘BMusic Player’ is an addon that takes all the music to one place inside Blender. Plays almost any format like mp3, wav, FLAC, M4A, aac etc. In addition to it, there will be detailed documentation about the addon and you can check it here.

BMusic Player v1.0.1 (Initial Release)

Key Features:

  • Custom icon set.
  • Popup music player.
  • Custom shortcut key.
  • Supports almost any formats like mp3, mp4, wav, M4A, aac, FLAC etc.

BMusic Player v1.0.2

Planned Features:

  • Sleep timer.
  • Personal playlist option.
  • Change the playback speed.
  • Multiple key mapping.
  • Default music folder.

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How to transfer settings and add-ons from an old to a new version of Blender

Nikita
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Blender is very dynamically developed, so new versions of the program appear regularly. However, having downloaded the next release from the Blender website, we always need to configure it in a convenient way.

In order not to manually reset all personal user settings and reinstall all add-ons, we can quickly transfer settings and add-ons from the previous version to the new version of Blender.

  1. When we start Blender for the first time, in the splash screen we can press the “Load 2.xx Settings” button.

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