Learn Blender 3 - Adding Objects Viewport Shading and Shaders

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• Delete objects
  • Outliner
  • Hotkey: x
    • or Delete
  • In viewport
    • Delete key
    • Hotkey: x
      • Must confirm
• Add objects
  • 3D Viewport Menu
    • Add -> Mesh -> Monkey
    • Add -> Mesh -> Plane
  • Hotkey: Shift + a

Materials

• Object selected, go to material and add one.

Viewport shading: Solid

• Viewport Shading

  • Solid

    • Default

  • Wireframe

    • Turns on x-ray automatically

  • Material Preview

  • Rendered

  • Hotkey: z

    • Must have mouse in 3D Viewport
    • Move mouse to section or press hotkey
      • Wireframe Hotkey: 4
      • Rendering Hotkey: 8
      • Solid Hotkey: 6
      • Material Preview Hotkey: 2

• Solid method is simple lighting and solid colors

  • Computationally light
  • In color, the default is material which will display to the color of that is configured in the material.
    • Random is good to show different objects in different colors. You can identify each object separetely.

• Click the twirl down to see more options

  • Lighting
    • Studio
      • Basic studio lighting
      • Click on the sphere to different lighting
    • MatCap
      • Material capture material similar to Zbrush. It uses a projection method.
      • These do not render
    • Flat
      • Solid color not affected by lighting or shading
      • It has a 2D toon look.

• Background section

  • Theme
    • Respects the Blender theme
  • World
    • Respects the world background color
  • Viewport
    • Locally customized for the current viewport only.

• Can turn on Shadows

  • It is basic and not the same as the render
    • IT DOES NOT MATCH THE LIGHT IN THE SCENE
  • Can add the shadow intensity and orientation.

• Can turn on x-ray

  • There is a button for it
  • Can adjust the intensity

• Wireframe

  • Turns on x-ray automatically
  • Can turn off x-ray while in wireframe to prevent seeing the back of object

• Render

  • See the same result of the the final rendered image.
  • Displays all the lights and materials set in the scene.
  • More computationally expensive

• Material Preview

  • Lights in scene are not affected by default.
  • Uses HDR ball presets
  • Can turn on lights and scene world.
  • Can visualize without creating lights for the scene.