Interface

A few settings that can make your work in Blender a little bit convenient.

Viewport window

Remove the default cube. Each time you open a new scene, you delete it. Let’s do it once.

Remove the lamp light source. In most scenes, you will adjust the lighting in a completely new way.

Put the camera in a separate collection and hide it from the viewport (click on the “eye” in the outliner window), now the camera does not interfere with the scene.

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To change the camera height in the “walk/fly” mode in the 3D Viewport window (enables with shift + ` keycode), you need to on the “Gravity” checkbox in the “Preferences” window – “Navigation” and tune the height with the “View Height” parameter.

To enable gradient background in the “3D View” window you need:

• open the “Preferences” window
• press the “Themes” button
• in the “3D View” – “Theme Space” -” Gradient Colors” section on the “Use Gradient” checkbox
• and tune the gradient colors “Gradient HighOff” (top color) and “Gradient Low” (bottom color)
• press the “Save Preferences” button to save changes

To orient the “3D Viewport” window to be parallel to the selected polygon you need to press the following keycode:

shift + Num 7

In Blender 2.79, mesh vertices were highlighted in the “tweak” selection mode by holding down the “shift” key and a slight cursor movement with the right mouse button pressed. This allows quickly add vertexes to the selection without aiming each vertex with sniper accuracy.

In Blender 2.8x, this method has become unavailable due to the left click selection change. For those users who remained on “the right click select”, nothing has changed, everything works as before. The “tweak” selection was broken only for those who switched to the left click selection.

To use the “tweak” selection with the left click select, you need to make the following changes into the keyboard shortcut settings:

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