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Appendix A: HotKeys

General
New	Ctrl N
Open	Ctrl O
Open Recent	Shift Ctrl O
Save	Ctrl S
Save As	Shift Ctrl S
Quit	Ctrl Q
Undo	Ctrl Z
Redo	Shift Ctrl Z
Add mesh/Add nodes	Shift A
Operator Search	F3
Render Image	F12
View Render	F11
Play Animation	Spacebar
Render Animation	Ctrl F12
View Animation	Ctrl F11
Opening Toolbar	T
Opening Sidebar	N
Quick Favorites	Q
Mode Type Pie Menu	Ctrl Tab
Shading Type Pie Menu	Z
Move Objects to Collection	M
Create New Collection	Ctrl G
Select All	A
Undo Selection	Alt A
Invert Selection	Ctrl I
Circle Selection	C
Join Objects	Ctrl J
Insert Animation Keyframes	I
Delete Animation Keyframes	Alt I
Delete Objects	X
Hide Selected Objects	H
Show Hidden Objects	Alt H
Views/Navigation
Perspective/Orthographic	Numpad 5
Camera	Numpad 0
Top	Numpad 7
Bottom	Ctrl Numpad 7
Front	Numpad 1
Back	Ctrl Numpad 1
Right	Numpad 3
Left	Ctrl Numpad 3
Orbit Left	Numpad 4
Orbit Right	Numpad 6
Orbit Up	Numpad 8
Orbit Down	Numpad 2
Orbit Opposite	Numpad 9
Pan Left	Ctrl Numpad 4
Pan Right	Ctrl Numpad 6
Pan Up	Ctrl Numpad 8
Pan Down	Ctrl Numpad 2
Roll Left	Shift Numpad 4
Roll Right	Shift Numpad 6
Zoom In	Numpad +
Zoom Out	Numpad -
Zoom Region	Shift B
Render Region	Ctrl B
Clear render Region	Ctrl Alt B
Toggle Quad View	Ctrl Alt Q
Toggle Maximize Area	Ctrl Spacebar
Toggle Fullscreen Area	Ctrl Alt Spacebar
Switching Editors
File Browser	Shift F1
Movie Clip	Shift F2
Shade Editor	Shift F3
Python Console	Shift F4
3D View	Shift F5
Graph Editor	Shift F6
Properties	Shift F7
Video Sequencer	Shift F8
Outliner	Shift F9
Image Editor	Shift F10
Text Editor	Shift F11
Dope Sheet	Shift F12
Tools per Workspace/Editor/Modes
(To access Annotate tools by its own hotkeys, use Shift Spacebar D at first access)
Layout Workspace
Select	Shift + Spacebar + W
Select Box	Shift + Spacebar + B
Select Circle	Shift + Spacebar + C
Select Lasso	Shift + Spacebar + L
Cursor	Shift + Spacebar + Spacebar
Move	Shift + Spacebar + G
Rotate	Shift + Spacebar + R
Scale	Shift + Spacebar + S
Scale Cage	Shift + Spacebar + 3
Transform	Shift + Spacebar + T
Annotate	Shift + Spacebar + D or 5
Annotate Line	Shift + Spacebar + D or 6
Annotate Polygon	Shift + Spacebar + D or 7
Annotate Eraser	Shift + Spacebar + D or 8
Measure	Shift + Spacebar + M
Modeling Workspace and Edit Mode
Extrude Region	Shift + Spacebar + E
Extrude Along Normals	Shift + Spacebar + 9
Extrude Individuals	Shift + Spacebar + 0
Extrude to Cursor	Shift + Spacebar + Shift 1
Inset Faces	Shift + Spacebar + I
Bevel	Shift + Spacebar + Ctrl + B
Loop Cut	Shift + Spacebar + Ctrl + R
Offset Edge Loop Cut	Shift + Spacebar + Shift + Ctrl + R
Knife	Shift + Spacebar + K
Bisect	Shift + Spacebar + Shift + 2
Polybuild	Shift + Spacebar + Shift + 3
Spin	Shift + Spacebar + Shift + 4
Spin Duplicate	Shift + Spacebar + Shift + 5
Smooth	Shift + Spacebar + Shift + 6
Randomize	Shift + Spacebar + Shift + 7
Edge Slide	Shift + Spacebar + Shift + 8
Vertex Slide	Shift + Spacebar + Shift + V
Shrink/Flatten	Shift + Spacebar + Alt + S
Push/Pull	Shift + Spacebar + Shift + 9
Shear	Shift + Spacebar + Shift + Ctrl + Alt + S
To Sphere	Shift + Spacebar + Shift + Alt + S
Rip Region	Shift + Spacebar + V
Rip Edge	Shift + Spacebar + Alt + D
Annotate	Shift + Spacebar + D
Sculpting Workspace and Sculpt mode
Draw	Shift + Spacebar + X
Clay	Shift + Spacebar + C
Clay Stripes	Shift + Spacebar + 1
Layer	Shift + Spacebar + L
Inflate	Shift + Spacebar + I
Blob	Shift + Spacebar + 2
Crease	Shift + Spacebar + Shift + C
Smooth	Shift + Spacebar + S
Flatten	Shift + Spacebar + Shift + T
Fill	Shift + Spacebar + 3
Scrape	Shift + Spacebar + 4
Pinch	Shift + Spacebar + P
Grab	Shift + Spacebar + G
Snake Hook	Shift + Spacebar + K
Thumb	Shift + Spacebar + 5
Nudge	Shift + Spacebar + 6
Rotate	Shift + Spacebar + 7
Simplify	Shift + Spacebar + 8
Mask	Shift + Spacebar + 9
Box Mask	Shift + Spacebar + B
Lasso Mask	Shift + Spacebar + 0
Box Hide	Shift + Spacebar + Shift + H
Annotate	Shift + Spacebar + Shift + 1
Annotate Line	Shift + Spacebar + Shift + 2
Annotate Polygon	Shift + Spacebar + Shift + 3
Annotate Eraser	Shift + Spacebar + Shift + 4
UV Editing Workspace (UV Editor) (Select to Transform tool is the same as in Layout Workspace)
Select Box	Shift + Spacebar + B
Cursor	Shift + Spacebar + Spacebar
Move	Shift + Spacebar + G
Rotate	Shift + Spacebar + R
Scale	Shift + Spacebar + S
Transform	Shift + Spacebar + T
Annotate Eraser	Shift + Spacebar + 6
Grab	Shift + Spacebar + 7
Relax	Shift + Spacebar + 8
Pinch	Shift + Spacebar + 9
Transform Tool	Shift + Spacebar + T
Texture Paint Workspace (Image Editor in Paint Mode)
Draw (Same in Texture Paint mode)	Shift + Spacebar + 1
Soften (Same in Texture Paint mode)	Shift + Spacebar + 2
Smear (Same in Texture Paint mode)	Shift + Spacebar + 3
Clone (Same in Texture Paint mode)	Shift + Spacebar + 4
Fill (Same in Texture Paint mode)	Shift + Spacebar + 5
Mask (Same in Texture Paint mode)	Shift + Spacebar + 6
Annotate (Only in Texture Paint Mode)	Shift + Spacebar + 7
Annotate Line (Only in Texture Paint Mode)	Shift + Spacebar + 8
Annotate Polygon (Only in Texture Paint Mode)	Shift + Spacebar + 9
Annotate Eraser (Only in Texture Paint Mode)	Shift + Spacebar + 0
Layout Workspace in Weight Paint and Vertex Paint
Draw (Weight Paint and Vertex Paint)	Shift + Spacebar + 1
Blur (Weight Paint and Vertex Paint)	Shift + Spacebar + 2
Average (Weight Paint and Vertex Paint)	Shift + Spacebar + 3
Smear (Weight Paint and Vertex Paint)	Shift + Spacebar + 4
Gradient (Weight Paint Only)	Shift + Spacebar + 5
Sample Weight (Weight Paint Only)	Shift + Spacebar + 6
Sample Vertex Group (Weight Paint Only)	Shift + Spacebar + 7
Annotate	Shift + Spacebar + 5 (Weight) Shift + Spacebar + 8 (Vertex)
Annotate Line	Shift + Spacebar + 6 (Weight) Shift + Spacebar + 9 (Vertex)
Annotate Polygon	Shift + Spacebar + 7 (Weight) Shift + Spacebar + 0 (Vertex)
Annotate Eraser	Shift + Spacebar + 8 (Weight) Shift + Spacebar + Shift + 1 (Vertex)

Appendix B: Blender’s History

Let’s talk about Blender’s history a little bit. Of course, we need to at least learn about the background of the software we are going to use, not just use it. In this way, we will know what the main feature of the software is, especially for this kind of software that has many features.

Blender 3D is a 3D suite software. It is a free and open source software. This means, by price, it is free and that its license is under the GNU General Public License.

Blender 3D started as an in-house software in NeoGeo, a Dutch animation studio of which Ton Roosendaal was a co-founder. It was started in 1995 when Ton decided to rewrite the current in-house software of the animation studio that had become one of the leading animation houses in Europe. At that time, Ton was responsible for both art direction and software development.

In 1998 a new company was developed named NaN (Not a Number) as a spin-off of NeoGeo to market and develop Blender for free; and in 1999, NaN attended its first SIGGRAPH convention and it was a huge success. In 2001, NaN restarted with new investor funding and after six months launched its first commercial software named Blender Publisher. Unfortunately, because of disappointing sales and the ongoing difficult economic climate, the new investors decided to shut down all NaN operations . This shutdown also included discontinuing the development of Blender. Even though there’s a lot of shortcomings like unfinished features and complex internal software architecture, because of the enthusiastic support from the user community and customers who had purchased Blender Publisher, Ton could not justify leaving Blender and founded the nonprofit organization named Blender Foundation in March 2002.

Blender Foundation’s primary goal was to find a way to continue to develop and market Blender as a community-based open source project and by October 13, 2002, Blender was released under the terms of the GNU GPL. The development of Blender continues up until now, together with its goal-driven team.

So, let me share you a little bit about the major development of Blender in each year, starting from its birth year, which was in 1994.

In 1998, an SGI version was published on the web and it was called IrisGL. The same year, Linux, FreeBSD, and Sun versions were released.

In 1999, Windows, BeOS, and PPC version were released.

In 2000, an Interactive 3D, real-time engine, physics, and Phyton were added to its features.

In 2001, a character animation system was added and the MacOs version was released.

In 2002, Blender goes open source.

In 2003, the first true open source version was released, and a preview was released of 2.3x UI makeover presented at the second Blender conference.

In 2004, a major overhaul of internal rendering capabilities was added, game engine returns, ambient inclusions, new procedural textures, particle interactions, and LSCM UV mappings were added, functional YafRay integration, weighted creases in subdivision surfaces, ramp shaders, and full OSA.

In 2005, a full rework of the armature system was done, shape keys, fur with particles, rigid bodies, soft bodies, force fields, deflections, incremental subdivisions surfaces, transparent shadows, and a multi-threaded rendering were added.

In 2006, nodes were released, an array modifier and vector blur were added, and a new physics engine.

In 2007, reawakening of the 64-bit OS support, and the addition of subsurface scattering, multi-resolution meshes, multilayer UV textures, multilayer images, multi-pass rendering and baking, retopology, sculpting, multiple mattes, distort and filter nodes, fluid particles, proxy objects, and post-production UV texturing.

In 2008, light and game engine improvements, GLSL shaders, snap, sky simulator, shrink-wrap modifier, a mesh deform modifier and action editor were added, enhanced image browsing, and integrated a seamless and nonintrusive physics cache.

In 2009, game engine enhancements included video textures where you can play movies in game, Boolean mesh operator improved, and node-based textures, armature sketching, JPEG2000 support, and projection painting for direct transfer of images to models were added.

And from 2009 to 2011, Blender was recoded – total refactor of the software with new functions on its version 2.5x.

In 2011, the internalization of the UI and the Cycles renderer, the camera tracker, the ocean modifier, and the dynamic paint for modifying textures with mesh contact/approximation were added.

In 2012, fire and smoke improvements and a carve library to improve Boolean operations , remesh modifier, ambient occlusion, viewport display of background images and render layers, mask editor, and anisotropic shader for Cycles were added.

In 2013, a better support for FBX import/export was develop, and Dynamic topology, rigid body simulation, freestyle, more modeling tools, and new add-ons for 3D printing were added.

In 2014, Cycle gets basic volumetric support on the CPU, deformation motion blur and fire/smoke support are added in Cycles, Cycles gets volume and subsurface scattering support on GPU, and pie menus, intersection modeling tool, and new sun beam mode for the Compositor were added.

In 2015, Improvement to hair dynamics was made and the support for custom normals, view compositing, Pixar open SubDiv support, node auto-offset, and a text-effect strip for the sequencer were added.

In 2016, OpenVDB support for caching of smoke/volumentric simulations develop, Cycles support for spherical stereo images for VR and Alembic import and export were added, Grease Pencil works became more similar to other 2D drawing software.

In 2017, new Cycles features added: denoising, shadow catcher, and new Principled shader.

In 2019, a totally redesigned UI for easier navigation and new features added, and this was Blender 2.80.

So, this is the short history of Blender. Let me discuss a little bit about its installation process for the readers who will use it for the first time.

Index

Add Alpha blend mode

Add blend mode

Annotation Stroke Placement

Armory3D

Bisect tool

Bishop/Queen/King, project

Blend mode

add Alpha

add

blender

color

colorburn

color dodge

darken

difference

Erase Alpha

exclusion

hard light

hue

lighten

linear

mix

multiply

overlay

pin light

saturation

screen

soft light

subtract

value

vivid

Blender 3D

Blending mode

Blur Mode

Boolean operations

Brush tip

Chess Piece Texturing Process

Clone copies

Color

definition

harmony

HSV

meaning

scheme

systems

theory

Color blend mode

Color burn blend mode

Color dodge blend mode

Color Palette

Color Picker

Cursor setting

Darken blend mode

Dash Length

Dash Ratio

Difference blend mode

Draw tool

Erase Alpha blend mode

Exclusion blend mode

Export game assets, blender

Falloff setting

.FBX file format

First Person Shooter (FPS)

Game assets

Game environment

artist

level design

Games, types

Graphics Library Transmission Format (.GLTF 2.0)

Grid Mesh Object

Hard light blend mode

Hue blend mode

Hue, Saturations, and Values (HSV)

Image editor

advanced settings

brush tip

image area

tiling

tools

Import game assets, Blender

.DAE file format

file formats

.OBJ file format

Jitter

Knife tool

Knight chess piece, project

Landscape Texturing Process

Lighten blend mode

Linear burn blend mode

Linear light blend mode

Loop cut tool

Low Poly vs. High Poly

MacOs version

Mask maps

Mask settings

Minimum Viable Products (MVPs)

Mipmaps

Mix blend mode

Modeling specific tools

Bevel

Bisect

cursor, extrude

edge slide and vertex slide

extrude along normals

extrude individual

extrude region

insert faces

knife

loop cut

offset edge loop cut

poly build

push/pull

Rip region/Rip edge

Shear

shrink/flatten

smooth/randomize

spin

spin duplicates

toolbar

to sphere

Multiply blend mode

NaN operations

Objects

armature

camera and speaker

curve

empty

Grease pencil

lattice

light and light probe

mesh

metaball

surface

text

.OBJ file format

Open source game engines

Armory3D

Godot

Stride

OpenVDB support

Options settings

Overlay blend mode

P, Q

Pawn chess piece, project

adding new loop

bottom

image reference object

modifier settings

progress

Red Rectangle, shading settings

referencing image, placing cylinder

selected vertices

settings

Pin light blend mode

PLY file format

Preferences

Pressure masking

Rook chess piece project

Sample project

texturing

UV layout

UV mapping

Saturation blend mode

Screen blend mode

Search box

SGI version

Sharp threshold

Shear tool

Shrink/Flatten tool

Smear

Smooth tool

Soften tool

Soft light blend mode

Stabilize Stroke

Stroke Method

Subtract blend mode

.SVG file format

Symmetry setting

Technical skills

Texture Paint Workspace

blend mode

SeeBlend mode

image editor

Seeimage Editor

properties

color palette

workspace

3D viewport

tools

tool settings

Annotation Stroke Placement

brush

cursor

falloff

mask

options

stroke

symmetry

texture

texture mask

Texture Slot

Tiling

Time-To-Market (TTM)

UV mapping

UV workplace

editors

default setup

header

regions

toolbar/tool settings

layout

mapping

3D viewport

cube projection

Cylinder Projection

default setup

follow active quads

lightmap pack

live unwrap

mark seam

project from view

smart UV project

Sphere Projection

unwrap

UDIM

Value blend mode

Vivid light blend mode

Workspaces

.WRL file format

X, Y, Z

.X3D file format

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