i may just be an idiot but I swear like every blender tutorial ever you have to select an edge and they just act like you instantly know how to, this is literally the most helpful video I've seen in months, thank you so much
Hello Michael, thank you very much for this great help. I'm a german blender-beginner, and I was searching for three days to find out, how to see the verticies. Your tutorial was the only one I found in the internet, that could help me. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!! Bernd
Thank you very much. Congratulations on starting to learn Blender. The learning curve can be steep at times but it's such an amazing program. Best of luck.
Great tutorial. So many blender tutorials leave the viewer more confused than before they watched it . But you present clearly step by step what keys and clicks are needed. Thanks heaps.
Thank you for the straightforward explanation. Just learned the X-Ray toggle key is exactly what I was looking for to select all faces in the drag and select tool, including those not in view.
You are awesome. Halfway the video and I already learned my lesson. My mistake had always been that I wasn't aware that there's a Vertex, Edge, Face select modes. Foolish me.
Man this was very usefull, specialy the x-ray part, i was following a video with an older version of blender and couldnt find the right icon. Thnks dude catch up later.
For me, pressing number 1, 2, or 3 only changes my viewing angle of a selected object, instead of changing between vertex/edge/face selection modes then I got to know I shouldn't press numbers from numpad
Thank you very much! I saved your video in a playlist for future references, because I still tend to forget all the different ways to select vertices, lines and faces. However, there is one way of selecting that I see in some tutorials, but I can't find any information on how to actually do it. For example on spheres or cubes vertices and lines of a plane form a "circle" around the object. How do I select all the lines and vertices of those "circles" at once? At the moment, I have to shift+lmb my way around an object.. But there must be a better way to do it?
@@MichaelBullo plz clear my dowt I used many cubes to join together as like rod shaped then I select all cubes together and I use simple deform option to make as 360 but it only deform one cube not all cubes at the same time plz give me tips to make all cubes deform at the same time
@@akifan1064 Hi mate. I was able to get your idea to work. Perhaps you aren't joining all of the cubes together? 1. I duplicated the default cube a bunch of times. 2. I lined them up roughly into a rod like shape. 3. With all of the cubes selected, within the Object menu I chose the Join option. The multiple cubes now appear as a single object within the Outliner panel. 4. With the object selected, I added a Simple Deform modifier and everything deformed.
In Edit Mode - is there a one-click way of selecting a contiguous piece of geo? I was expecting to find Select By Trait that includes contiguous geo, but I cant find one. Selecting a face and growing it until you have the whole contiguous piece is unworkable with large geometries.
thx for the video. is there a way to loop selection (ring select and loop select) or from a line first click on one vertex then at the end double click another one select the whole line?
If you are in Vertex Select or Edge Select Mode and you hold down the Alt/Option key you will enter Loop Select mode. Clicking on a single edge will select all of the edges within that loop. You can add to the selection by including the Shift key. This page on the Blender website goes into detail... docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/modeling/meshes/selecting/loops.html
When I click face in edit mode and try to select a face (with left click on the mouse) nothing gets highlighted in orange it just stays white.And I use a primitive mesh like cube to practice with.I use 2.79 or 2.80 blender.Please help!!
Hi! I just started Blender today and I'm wondering why whenever I press the G key, the points never go outside the shape of the object, they're just stuck inside? Great video btw!
Thank you and congrats on getting into Blender. I'm not sure what is causing your issue. Are you manipulating a complex 3D model? Do you have this problem if you use a basic shape like I demo in the video?
@@MichaelBullo Yes I'm using a Torus cause I was following Blender Guru's tutorial, I was following everything in his and your video but idk what's wrong :(
Can you describe in more detail what the disabled buttons look like? Are they greyed out? Are you using the numbers on the keypad or the numbers running along the top of the keyboard?
Thank you. I appreciate the feedback. I don't pretend to be a Blender guru. I recommend you post your question on a Blender forum for the smartest answer. Best of luck and have a great day.
Perhaps you have Overlays turned off. Check out this video... Can't see Grid, Selections or Axes in Blender? (Show Overlays) th-cam.com/video/PpBSA-PyLl0/w-d-xo.html
hey, i am wondering how to select whole piece of mesh of vertices? for example if you double click one vertex of one piece of mesh in maya, it automatically selects whole connected vertices which is just one whole mesh. not the entire objects. - nevermind. I figured. Answer is L key. and Ctrl +,- key you can grow ur selection or reduce lol
I don't have any videos on this topic but you might find the following page helpful.. Modeling - Meshes - Selecting - Select Linked docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/modeling/meshes/selecting/linked.html
yeah well why sometimes i lasso a face it selects every face that i only slightly lassoed - and then other times when i lasso a face it only selects a face if its entirely within the lasso. seems kinda fundamental right?
1. Are you sure you are in Edit mode? 2. Does this video help? Can't see Grid, Selections or Axes in Blender? (Show Overlays) th-cam.com/video/PpBSA-PyLl0/w-d-xo.html
While in Edit mode and with a vertex(s) selected, press the N key to open up the Sidebar. Within the Transform section of the Item tab you'll see the XYZ coordinates for the vertex(s).
This video is amazing! I just wanted to ask, I can’t see the lines within the shape. My object I’ve designed is completely opaque and so when trying to select the orange lines/create new ones I just cannot see them as they object skin is in the way. Please help!
You may have turned off the Overlays. In the upper right corner of the main window are a series of buttons. Look for the one with two overlapping circles. When active it will be highlighted in blue. Does that help?
Thank you, this was very helpful :) I realized there is a difference between hitting 1,2 and 3 on the top of the keyboard and on the number pad too.
Ahh, that's a great point. I probably should have been a little more specific there. Thanks for the feedback.
And there goes my problem thanks a lot
Thank you for this you saved me a lot of frustration into why I couldn't do it. Thank you so much!!
i may just be an idiot but I swear like every blender tutorial ever you have to select an edge and they just act like you instantly know how to, this is literally the most helpful video I've seen in months, thank you so much
Hey thank you. That's quite the compliment. Happy to hear this helped you out. Have fun learning Blender :)
Absolutely agree.
The explanation is crystal clear. It's like I don't miss a single thing from the video.
I really appreciate that feedback. Thank you and best of luck with Blender.
Hello Michael, thank you very much for this great help. I'm a german blender-beginner, and I was searching for three days to find out, how to see the verticies. Your tutorial was the only one I found in the internet, that could help me. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!!
Bernd
Thank you very much. Congratulations on starting to learn Blender. The learning curve can be steep at times but it's such an amazing program. Best of luck.
Great tutorial. So many blender tutorials leave the viewer more confused than before they watched it . But you present clearly step by step what keys and clicks are needed. Thanks heaps.
Thank you Brian. I appreciate the feedback. Best of luck learning Blender.
Thank you for the straightforward explanation. Just learned the X-Ray toggle key is exactly what I was looking for to select all faces in the drag and select tool, including those not in view.
Thank you. I'm happy to hear the X-Ray mode will help you out. Cheers.
Great video! You explained things in 6 minutes, quite thoroughly, that others never fully explained.
Hey that's quite the compliment. Thank you for all the support.
Like others said, this is extremely helpful for first timers, even teachers do not mention these fundamental things, thanks!
Thank you. I wish you well learning Blender.
You are awesome. Halfway the video and I already learned my lesson. My mistake had always been that I wasn't aware that there's a Vertex, Edge, Face select modes. Foolish me.
I think most people don't know about the different modes. They are easy to miss. Thanks for the comment and best of luck learning Blender.
Thanks. I was needing help selecting multiple vertices, you are amazing.
Thank you. Happy to hear this helped you out.
2 years later, still helping... Thanks !!!
Thanks mate. Have fun learning Blender.
Thank you very much short and understandable video. Very helpful. Thank you 🙏😊
Thank you for the kind words and best of luck with your Blender projects
THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH!! I'm just started and trying to find a way to select each edge for long time!!!
Thank you and congratulations on learning Blender. Hope you build some cool stuff.
tysm man i was stuck in vertex mode and panicking u saved my life
Thanks mate. Happy to have helped you out.
you fixed all 4 problems I was having in one short video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh wow. Thanks Steven. Appreciate it.
Right on point! This is exactly the help i was looking for. Thank you so much!
Thanks mate and that's great to hear.
Man this was very usefull, specialy the x-ray part, i was following a video with an older version of blender and couldnt find the right icon. Thnks dude catch up later.
Thanks Giovanni. Appreciate the feedback. Yeah I was pretty happy the day I learned about the X-Ray button.
Great video, i was getting so annoyed about the vertices not being selected
Cheers mate. Happy it helped you out.
Me too 👍
I wasnt able to do it for 20 days... Too frustrated... I've liked and subbed to him...
Thanks so much, easy when its expanded in a clam & slow method. brillant.
Thank you for the feedback. It's appreciated and will help with future videos.
*Toggles X-RAY and selects everything*
*actually selects everything*
MINDBLOWN
Awesome. Hope it comes in handy :)
Extremely helpful even a couple of years later.
Great to hear. Thank you.
Thank you very much! X-Ray mode will be very useful!
Thank you. I regularly find it very helpful.
i had to pause the video. thank you 100!
Thanks mate. Hope it helps you create something awesome.
i can't describe u how much this video was helpful,u really saved me from so many problems which i was facing as i am a beginner in this.
Thanks mate. That's great to hear and I genuinely appreciate that. Best of luck learning Blender.
Finally found a video that fully explained this!! Thank you!!!
Cheers mate. Hope you're having fun with Blender :)
@@MichaelBullo 🍻
@@mryan3204 👍
OMG, the X-ray select. I've been going nuts not knowing that. My n00b level just advanced to level 2, lol.
Welcome to level 2 mate. Bring on level 3.
Thank you so much man.. God bless. I have been stuck for dace trying to get face mode. 😂
Thanks mate. I've been there myself.
Thank you so muchh! You made me no longer have to take the headache medicine.
Oh wow! I can cure illnesses now? Thank you ;)
Great tutorial, short, well explained and concise, Thank you!
Thank you David. Hope it comes in handy.
Thank you, I have just started learning blender
Thank you. Congrats on getting into Blender. The learning curve can be difficult at times but it's definitely worth hanging in there. Good luck.
Timestamps were incredibly helpful, I found exactly what I needed. Thanks!
That's good to know. Thank you and best of luck with your designs.
My savior! TOGLLE XRAY was what I needed! THANKS! Subscribed! :D
It's a pretty awesome option. Thanks for the sub.
Thans for quick ne easy explanation for selection. it helped in learning Blender.
Thank you Naresh. Happy to hear that it helped you out.
Thank you! Super informative and straight to the point.
Thank you Valerie. Hope this helps you build some cool stuff in Blender.
Thank you, EXTRMELY helpful.
That's great to hear. Thank you.
Thanks a lot dear Michael !! It has been very useful to me !!
Thank you Francisco. Great to hear. Best of luck learning Blender.
invaluable info! many thanks and what a joy to get these basics in. Also, well presented.
Thank you. I appreciate the generous feedback. Have fun learning Blender :)
Thank you, this was very helpful!!! 😀
Thank you. That's great to hear.
nice video. helped me a lot
That's great to hear. Thanks for letting me know.
You saved my life ty
Happy to have helped. Thank you.
For me, pressing number 1, 2, or 3 only changes my viewing angle of a selected object, instead of changing between vertex/edge/face selection modes then I got to know I shouldn't press numbers from numpad
Yeah I should have been more specific in that regard. That's why I pinned the comment that I did. Have fun playing with Blender.
you are a delight! tysm :)
Thank you Emery :)
Thanks a lot. Exactly what I was looking for.
Thank you. Happy to help.
Extremely helpful! Thanks!
Appreciate it. Thank you.
legend
Cheers
Thank you! Very simply explained for dumb people such as myself.
Thank you... from one dumb person to another ;)
you are awesome save my day
Thanks mate. That's great to hear. Have a great day.
Thank you so much brother.
Thanks mate. Happy to help.
mannnnn you are great explainer. Thanks a lot
Thanks Ivo. I genuinely appreciate that. Have a great day.
Thanks so much i was trying to use vertex mode but was accidentally stuck in face mode lol
Ah yes. We've all been stuck in the wrong mode at some point ;) Happy to hear this helped you out. Cheers.
Excellent. Thank you very much.
You're welcome. Thanks Jared.
You are AMAZING!
Thank you Mohamed. Have a great day
Just what I needed help with👍
Awesome. Thank you.
Thank you very much! I saved your video in a playlist for future references, because I still tend to forget all the different ways to select vertices, lines and faces. However, there is one way of selecting that I see in some tutorials, but I can't find any information on how to actually do it. For example on spheres or cubes vertices and lines of a plane form a "circle" around the object. How do I select all the lines and vertices of those "circles" at once? At the moment, I have to shift+lmb my way around an object.. But there must be a better way to do it?
Thank you. Happy to hear this helped. I think holding down Alt/Option and clicking on an edge or a face will make the selection you are looking for.
Thankyou verymuch!
Love from sharks!
Thank you. Have a great day :)
@@MichaelBullo I'm having a great day because of you ehe :3
@@icarusxd8989 Cheers mate
i love you so much
Thank you :)
you are the GOAT!!!!
Thank you mate. Appreciate that.
Useful video
Cool. Thank you.
Nice - thanks !
Cheers mate
Thank you so much :)
Cheers Shawn. Hope it helps.
Thank you so much 😊
My pleasure. Thank you.
Well explained
Thank you
@@MichaelBullo plz clear my dowt I used many cubes to join together as like rod shaped then I select all cubes together and I use simple deform option to make as 360 but it only deform one cube not all cubes at the same time plz give me tips to make all cubes deform at the same time
@@akifan1064 Hi mate. I was able to get your idea to work. Perhaps you aren't joining all of the cubes together?
1. I duplicated the default cube a bunch of times.
2. I lined them up roughly into a rod like shape.
3. With all of the cubes selected, within the Object menu I chose the Join option. The multiple cubes now appear as a single object within the Outliner panel.
4. With the object selected, I added a Simple Deform modifier and everything deformed.
@@MichaelBullo ss I finally joined all the cubes into one cube by using ctrl+j
@@akifan1064 So you got it working?
In Edit Mode - is there a one-click way of selecting a contiguous piece of geo? I was expecting to find Select By Trait that includes contiguous geo, but I cant find one. Selecting a face and growing it until you have the whole contiguous piece is unworkable with large geometries.
Select a face and press the "L" key.
Thank you!! 💞
Thank you
Thanks man
Cheers mate
Thx this video helped me
Thank you Dawit. Great to hear.
THANK YOU. Ugh why is everything in blender hidden in a maze of menus
Thanks mate. Happy to help.
Thanks man! Somehow the numbers 1-3 don't work for this. They change orientations for me and I don't know how to fix this. Help please 😅
Yeah that's on me. I should have been more specific and said to use the numbers running along the top of keyboard, not the keypad.
Thank you!
Cheers Justin
BIG THANK YOU!
Cheers Steffano
thx for the video. is there a way to loop selection (ring select and loop select) or from a line first click on one vertex then at the end double click another one select the whole line?
If you are in Vertex Select or Edge Select Mode and you hold down the Alt/Option key you will enter Loop Select mode. Clicking on a single edge will select all of the edges within that loop. You can add to the selection by including the Shift key.
This page on the Blender website goes into detail...
docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/modeling/meshes/selecting/loops.html
help tab does nothing and that box has nothing in it but object mode
You can't get into Edit mode?
When I click face in edit mode and try to select a face (with left click on the mouse) nothing gets highlighted in orange it just stays white.And I use a primitive mesh like cube to practice with.I use 2.79 or 2.80 blender.Please help!!
I can't speak for 2.79 or earlier but this should work if you are using 2.80 or later. Have you tried doing this with a brand new file?
Hi! I just started Blender today and I'm wondering why whenever I press the G key, the points never go outside the shape of the object, they're just stuck inside? Great video btw!
Thank you and congrats on getting into Blender. I'm not sure what is causing your issue. Are you manipulating a complex 3D model? Do you have this problem if you use a basic shape like I demo in the video?
@@MichaelBullo Yes I'm using a Torus cause I was following Blender Guru's tutorial, I was following everything in his and your video but idk what's wrong :(
@@AsuraiGaming What happens if you try this on the default cube?
@@MichaelBullo I'll give it a try later! Thank you!
@@AsuraiGaming Good luck mate. Let us know how it goes.
Bless u brother !!!
Thanks mate
Hi I need help I seem to disable the icons for toggling vertex/edge/face select also 1/2/3 is not working pls help
Can you describe in more detail what the disabled buttons look like? Are they greyed out? Are you using the numbers on the keypad or the numbers running along the top of the keyboard?
@@MichaelBullo oh my bad I just realized I was editing a curve😅😅
@@gc_p Whoopsie. Good to hear you solved the problem.
Im glad this is on mac
Good to hear. May I ask what you mean exactly?
@@MichaelBullo I use mac, but I wasn't able to find any tutorials which uses mac because some things in mac different to windows
@@disguisedpuppy Hey that's awesome. Thank you and best of luck learning Blender.
Thank you
You're welcome. Cheers.
Thank you so much!!!
Thank you
THANKS !!
Thank you Mauro
is there a way we can stop toggleling from wireframe to solid jus tto grab back faces. its fkn annoying. .. great. tut by the way. thubs up
Thank you. I appreciate the feedback.
I don't pretend to be a Blender guru. I recommend you post your question on a Blender forum for the smartest answer. Best of luck and have a great day.
Still can't selectect faces... i've followed you step by step, and when i click, nothing happen, no orange borders, nothing
Perhaps you have Overlays turned off. Check out this video...
Can't see Grid, Selections or Axes in Blender? (Show Overlays)
th-cam.com/video/PpBSA-PyLl0/w-d-xo.html
Thanks.
Cheers
Thank you sir
Thank you. Hope it proves useful.
hey, i am wondering how to select whole piece of mesh of vertices? for example if you double click one vertex of one piece of mesh in maya, it automatically selects whole connected vertices which is just one whole mesh. not the entire objects.
- nevermind. I figured. Answer is L key. and Ctrl +,- key you can grow ur selection or reduce lol
I don't have any videos on this topic but you might find the following page helpful..
Modeling - Meshes - Selecting - Select Linked
docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/modeling/meshes/selecting/linked.html
yeah well why sometimes i lasso a face it selects every face that i only slightly lassoed - and then other times when i lasso a face it only selects a face if its entirely within the lasso. seems kinda fundamental right?
Perform the same lasso action for all three modes (Vertex, Edge and Face) and you should see the difference.
When I switch to edit mode I can't see the vertices displayed with blender 2.9. How can I activate these?
Did you have your object selected before you entered Edit mode?
Hello is there any other way of selecting vertices without turning on xray mode?
You can easily select vertices without xray mode. Perhaps I don't fully understand your question?
life saver
Thanks mate
Obrigado, muito bom.
Thank you. Happy to help.
love it
Thank you
ive got a big problem for some reason i don't see eeges and faces. just the dot thing but no nothing on how to fix it
1. Are you sure you are in Edit mode?
2. Does this video help?
Can't see Grid, Selections or Axes in Blender? (Show Overlays)
th-cam.com/video/PpBSA-PyLl0/w-d-xo.html
I’m in edit mode but the 3 boxes aren’t on the top left next to “View” I can’t find the boxes anywhere on my screen!!
Are you perhaps using a really old version of Blender? Does downloading a recent version solve your problem?
How do you manually type in the vertex location? Moving things around with the mouse is far to imprecise.
While in Edit mode and with a vertex(s) selected, press the N key to open up the Sidebar. Within the Transform section of the Item tab you'll see the XYZ coordinates for the vertex(s).
@@MichaelBullo Perfecto, thank you so much. Subbed.
@@spudhead169 Fantastic. Thank you and welcome to the channel.
In Mine The Edges of Back side are also selecting, What Should I do to Fix it?
Do you have the X-Ray button turned on?
thank youuuu
Cheers mate :)
Cheers!
Thank you
This video is amazing! I just wanted to ask, I can’t see the lines within the shape. My object I’ve designed is completely opaque and so when trying to select the orange lines/create new ones I just cannot see them as they object skin is in the way. Please help!
You may have turned off the Overlays. In the upper right corner of the main window are a series of buttons. Look for the one with two overlapping circles. When active it will be highlighted in blue. Does that help?
You can turn on X-ray to select through surfaces - shortcut key Alt+z
Thanks
Cheers
thank you, but my magic keyboard doesn't have the number pad, what is the hotkey to shift among vertex, line and face mode?
Hi Joy. In the video I'm actually using the numbers running along the top of a regular keyboard. No numpad required :)