To enable gradient background in the “3D View” window you need:
To orient the “3D Viewport” window to be parallel to the selected polygon you need to press the following keycode:
shift + Num 7
To split a Blender viewport window to four projections: top, left, face and perspective, you can press the following key combination:
ctrl + alt + q
The cursor has to be on the viewport window.
Second pressing this combination returns viewport window to the previous state.
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:
In Blender 2.80 and 2.81, the button for blocking mesh transformations (Manipulate center points) has been moved to the N-panel, the “Tool” tab (Options – Transform – Affect only – Locations) and changed to the checkbox.
A set of operators is provided in Blender for manipulating with the location of its interface windows.
To split the current window (using the current context) into two in a specified ratio, we need to execute the following operator:
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bpy.ops.screen.area_split(direction='VERTICAL', factor=0.5) |
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Render starts in a new window in Blender 2.81 by default. And there is no more render display mode settings in the “Render” menu. These settings were moved into the “Preferences”. To configure render execution window – open the “Preferences” window, press the “Interface” button and in the “Temporary Windows” configure the “Render In” parameter as you need.
In Blender 2.81 the File Browser opens in a new window by default. To configure it always open in the current window – open the “Preferences” window, press the “Interface” button and in the “Temporary Windows” group change the “File Browser” parameter to “Full Screen”.
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