I'm so mad i spent a week frustratingly trying to follow a stupid donut tutorial as an absolute beginner. I wish i found your videos beforehand. Absolute wonderful teacher thank you for taking the time to make this content available for us.
the donut one pissed you off aswell 😂😂😂 i was just gave up on that one, i was doing evrything he id and it was happening differently loool thank goodness we found this channel
Same here...i am total beginner in Blender, i found that many people recommend Donut tutorial (idk why), i managed to get to the part 5 of his tutorial when things were starting to get really complicated and non understandable...i found on reddit that guy named Grant Abbitt is an excellent teacher for Blender, so here i am...i will continue Donut tutorial, hate to leave things half finished, but its not ideal starting tutorial for beginners.
i finished the donut tutorial with blender guru the other day - after this i was so overwhelmed and didnt have a clue where else to go. I can honestly say your videos are a breath of fresh air and i find comfort in them weirdly. You are also a great teacher!! I will be consuming as many of your videos as i can until im ready to set off on my own - thanks Dad.
You can REALLY tell when someone has actually taught others. I've been following some of your paid courses and trying to find people on TH-cam with free tutorials has been VERY frustrating. They're either very hard to understand, or they just word vomit at high speed leaving no space to work along unless you're frantically pausing and unpausing. Let alone stopping to explain WHY you're using the tool they're telling you to use. I appreciate you going at the pace of an actual beginner.
I`ve been using Blender for around 3 years now but never on a consistant basis, so I`ll be watching along with this, as there`s still alot of the process of navigating, modelling and texturing I need to make second nature.......cheers Grant!
At 33:12 you mention turning on Ambient Occlusion by checking the appropriate box. Well, I'm using Blender version 4.2.3 and after an hour of poking around the web I learned that that option has been removed from the EVEE rendering panel along with things like Bloom. So, you might want to put a note in the description. That being said, I've done many of your excellent tutorials in the past and am just coming back to Blender after at two year hiatus, so this item is just perfect for re-learning the basics I had forgotten.
It seems like I found "Ambient Occlusion" under a checked "Raytracing" tab. "Raytracing" -> "Fast GI Approximation" -> "Method" -> switch from "Global Illumination" to "Ambient Occlusion"
This is amazing!!! I am a newbie to Blender and I have been feeling so overwhelmed trying to figure out where to start since there is so much out there to look through. Took me a few hours to get through but I am actually remembering and finding my way around the program finally. Cannot wait to do part 2 and engulf myself in your other tutorials!! Thank you for ALL you do!!!
One of my first Blender tutorials was your "Man and Monster" Tutorial, which helped me a lot. Even if I'm no beginner anymore, I'm sure this will be great to watch :)
0:00 - 5:00: Introduction to Blender Interface and Navigation Basic navigation: middle mouse button to orbit, Shift + middle mouse button to pan, scroll wheel to zoom. How to select and manipulate objects. 5:00 - 10:00: Basic Transformations Transform commands: G for grab/move, R for rotate, S for scale. Locking transformations to specific axes using X, Y, Z. Undo and redo commands: Ctrl+Z and Shift+Ctrl+Z. 10:00 - 15:00: Introduction to Mesh Editing Switching between Object Mode and Edit Mode using Tab. Basic modeling tools: E for extrude, Ctrl+R for adding edge loops. Manipulating vertices, edges, and faces. 15:00 - 20:00: Introduction to Materials and Basic Rendering Using the Shader Editor to apply materials. Adding nodes with Shift + A. Setting up lights and rendering the scene with F12. 20:00 - 25:00: Working with Modifiers Applying Subdivision Surface for smoothing geometry. Introduction to other modifiers like Mirror for symmetrical modeling. 25:00 - 30:00: Texture Mapping Basics Introduction to UV unwrapping for texture application. Simple adjustments to UV maps for better texture placement. 30:00 - 35:00: Animation Basics Keyframe animation: setting location and rotation keyframes. Using the Dope Sheet to manage keyframes. 35:00 - 40:00: Rendering and Exporting Final render settings adjustments. Exporting images or animations.
I couldn't in good conscience move on to another video without stopping to thank you. I've learned more practical use cases with Blender's features in 45 minutes than I have with hours of other people's stuff and no offense to them it's the truth. As I was adjusting each thing, especially with making the craters, tons of ideas popped in my head like making eyeballs, a water mine, a face and lots of other things. Though you have 20 years experience you haven't forgotten about us beginners and more importantly you're a fantastic teacher at this. Thanks! 🙏
I successfully finished the Donut tutorial, but left out feeling really overwhelmed. I also felt as if I didn't retain much information so I left Blender alone for months. Found this tutorial and everything is soaking into my brain like a sponge absorbs water. Thank you so much for this
THANKS for this very helpful video! I've watched a lot of so-called "*beginner* tutorials" for Blender but this is simply the BEST. Everything is explained in an easy-to-follow manner with lots of exercises for the viewer (I think that's the only way to learn the basics of Blender). What I liked also: Finally someone explained the use of the Shading workspace in a way I could understand it. Looking forward to part two already. 😃 So I'm quite sure that I'll purchase your Blender beginner course pack from the description. 😉
33:18 Ambient Occlusion/Screen Space Reflections is gone in the latest version of Blender but you can select Ray Tracing instead. (Thank you for the tutorial)
Hey been watching your channel for sometime now and think all your vids are fantastic - here may be a quick tip for you though - after adding an object (like around timestamp 36 mins) and you forget to make those initial adjustments and that menu in the bottom left disappears, instead of deleting the object and re-adding it back in you can simply just have the object selected and hit the F9 key to bring it back - if you have made an adjustment in edit mode it will not bring that menu back and you will have to delete that object or if you add a modifier it will then bring up a menu for that modifier you added to it depending on what modifier you add (sub-surf will allow you to change subdivisions) others may vary. Hope this is a handy tip you can add to your future videos. And keep up the amazing video's, love your work very inspirational.
I too have long wanted to get back to that initial adjustment menu, so I was glad to see this comment. However I can't make it work as written above: I hit F9 with the object selected and nothing happens. I'm using version 4.2.3, if that makes a difference.
Oh, I see now. You _can_ get back to that initial menu with F9 if you happen to close that menu, but not of you make an adjustment of scale or position.
What a fantastic resource, thank you Grant for taking the time to put this together for us. I've enrolled to so much of your content/courses recently I feel like I'm becoming a Grant Abbitt groupie 😆 but seriously appreciate your no nonsense teaching style.
Hi Grant... Donut tutorials aside ;) ... your tutorial is the best online for Blender. simple yet very informative and not to fast paced. so thank you for this.
THANK YOU! This is exactly what I was looking for with getting started with Blender. I found it helpful to make a sticky note of the keyboard shortcuts for now since I'm just getting into it.
I'm mad I didn't have this kind of tutorial when I started a year ago. I once had a mesh covered in doubles and I thought the only way to fix it was to delete one and manually reconnect them all. Wondering how much of my trepidation in making good stuff just comes from that era, when I didn't know a good way to do any operation, much less what any of those operations were called
Excellent video. Super great for new person. That's not butter, that's just good truth. @15:54 your cube has a "material" already applied but mine doesn't. Maybe I deleted the original cube and made a new one? (I did the first 10 minutes a day ago, don't remember if I did or didn't; regardless - I'm ever so slightly lost at this moment...but I'll keep watching and I'm sure it'll sort itself out.) EDIT: Better yet, have a small dose of patience and in a small bundle of seconds arrives the how to do it.
I finally have my new Mac! Yay! I can do all those courses I've paid for. :) On the M3 Mac, there is only None or Metal in the Preferences>Cycles Render pop-up so no ability to select optix, CUDA, etc
Hi Everyone, i'm having the age old problem of, "My blender isn't like the one in the tutorial". As in 33:00, I don't have "ambient occlusion" or "screen space reflections" in my render tab. Why?
I am a big FAN of you.. Like the way you explain in detail... Pls suggest what should be my PC/Laptop configuration for a big projects so that I no need to change now & then... PLS REPLY
I'm noob here been in SFM for 8 years and just now trying to learn blender its difficult for me to learn this since I'm used too SFM for so long but I can't wait to watching this and learn how to get better it this 😢
Hey so with the planet I’m having a couple problems. Specifically for the part where you grab the crater that’s “too tall” when I go to select the edges and move them with grab it only moves them and the crater edges stay in place so if I sink it in I get some very broken edges? This has been so much easier than any other tutorial I’ve come across thank you so much! Figured it out, apparently I tried extruding first and it bungled it up so I had to undo and grab it
14:50 I'm getting a black sphere on the left, and the foresty sphere on the right, thus I can't actually see any colours beyond black and white even when changing the material - does anyone have any ideas what's up here?
So at the 11:39 mark and moved monkey as you did then I moved the plane under it just to see suzanne sitting on the flat surface but if I rotate view so I'm looking at the plane from underneath I can't see the plane? Is that normal? Not new to Blender, just getting back into it and don't remember this issue. I like to see from underneath to make sure objects are firmly planted on the surface.
Well now at the 14:52 mark and after moving all objects onto the plane I instinctively tilted the scene to view from the bottom and I now can see the plane from the bottom where as it would disappear before
Hi I really love this tutorial after looking for a slow and steady tutorial this makes it for me but there is an issue I'm using blender 4.2.3 and I can find the Ambient Occlusion, bloom and screen space reflection settings in the EEVEE options
Grant: Problem with using the Nvidia RTX4000x series is the huge power consumption (> 250W on average), which makes creating and rendering projects very expensive.
My Version doesnt have any of the Render settings you were tinkering with, i dont know if they changed the name of them or got rid of it entirely in an update.
thanks, great tutorial. however, I HATE blender's focus on keyboard shortcuts... you recommend we dont use the gizmo... alright, how is typing several times all over the keyboard faster than dragging gizmo where you want to on screen? also can you even move objects on 2 axes with shortcuts?
My middle button mouse is broken, what can i do to change the controls so that when i click shift and space i can move around or alt space or a keybind like that
Is there a way to just rest the layout view in shading tab. cause every time i try to adjust the windows i mess up and things go all out of wack i just want a button I can click on to just have it revert back to the default layout
Thankyou Grant for this very easy to follow tutorial! I am having an issue smoothing the torus during the render settings. I left click the torus but right clicking does nothing but move the cursor. Is there another way to bring up that popup?
Mr Abbit, can i use blender 4 with the class on gamedevTV or do i need to fins an older version? and how different would the UI be if i use the lastest blender? Thanks and cheers. I forgot to mention it is the complete blender class.
14 minutes in and am loving this tutorial. Quick question. My cursor looks like a grid when I’m adding objects from the left menu. What is causing that display and how do I turn it off?
i have a question if i may, when extruding my third crater and using the invert I tool my crater starts separating triangles individually, instead of all the anchor points together like in the previous 2 craters. Any idea why?
i also faced this problem - for anyone else with this, in the 'Insert Faces' window that pops up on the bottom left corner after you've added a face, you need to tick off 'Individual' - you'll see this in 42:34,,, hope this helps!
Very well explained process for beginners. I was going great until 'texturing'. When I change to the shading workspace, all my objects are 2D grey - not white even though my default cube has material white in the shader editor as in video. If I switch viewport to 'solid' they go 3D grey. Tried playing with material color but objects remain grey. Hoping Grant or someone is around who knows what I'm doing wrong - thanks
Hi Grant - Any chance you can do a proper video tutorial on sculpting with alphas and textures (with Blender 4). I keep getting horrible results, when I have a subd-4 an object (for high resolution) and I do the brush setting "stamp" the result of the ornament looks like geometry vomited.
@@grabbitt I have yes, It's quite an old video though - think you did it in 2.8. Any chance you can make a v4.0 doing a through breakdown/overview using brushes with alphas. Also with the proper/desired modifiers. For example, I use mulitres modifier and I keep getting horrible results when I try to use alphas.
Hello @grabbitt This tutorial video (as well as the 2nd part video) seems to have some age restriction set in place. My 12 year old kid can't open/play it, while I can. Is there any way you could fix this, please?
I think there's a setting which is aimed at children or not. For the sake of ease I always say it's not aimed at kids as I have to meet more requirements to allow this. I'm not sure I can change it once released
@@grabbitt First of all, let me tell you something I should have said in my first comment: I really like these Blender tutorials of yours. I really think that they are top shelf stuff. Second of all, many, many thanks for your kind reply. And now, my (humble) opinion about that age restriction technicality : it's not a problem at all if you set your videos to be "not made for kids". That's the name of the settings, I believe, you cand find it in the "Audience" section, where you have 2 options: "Yes, it's made for kids" / "No, it's not made for kids". But right below those 2 option though, you'll find another section: "Age restriction (advanced)". If you click to expand this section, you'll see other 2 options: "Yes, restrict my video to viewers over 18" / "No, don't restrict my video to viewers over 18 only". I think that you set your video(s) to "Yes, restrict my video to viewers over 18". And you definitely CAN change that one it once the video has been released, no problem. It won't affect the number of your views, it won't get you in any trouble at all. Short recap: a video CAN be watched by a kid even it's set to "No, it's not made for kids" (you don't have to change it, it's OK to leave it like that), BUT the age restriction has to be set to "No, don't restrict my video to viewers over 18 only". Don't get me wrong, it's pretty easy for me to let my 12 yo kid watch your tutorials by allowing him acces to TH-cam via my account, but since your videos really don't show any "18+" content at all (at least this 2-part tutorial doesn't, anyway), I don't see any reason for him not being able to enjoy your content using his own account. If you get rid of that "18+" barrier maybe you'll get more young viewers/subscribers/avid learners. My kid would surely be one of them. Thank you again for your kind reply and for your work, which is amazing, please keep it up. You've just got yourself a new subscriber (the oher one is still standing by 😉). And finally, please excuse my English, I'm not a native speaker.
Why doesn't my HDRI show up in the background of my object window? It's listed in the little thingy at the bottom (whatever it's called), and all's hooked up as it should be, at least I think so. Oh, and my render window is awfully bright, rendering the objects invisible. Update: turning off scene lights in render view fixed the brightness problem.
@@grabbitt I am now, and I do see the HDRI. However, the image looks completely different from viewport shading. Okay. checking Scene World bring back the HDRI in viewport, but all the plane's color and material output are gone. Thanks for the tutorial and for checking in with us plebes :).
Why am I stuck on the rotate part in the perpendicular view for some reason my cursor reads a rotation but the monkey head itself isn’t roatating do I have an option selected wrong?
@@grabbitt so good news I finally figured out what the problem was after a day of searching it was under the settings and transform tab of active workspace I had to uncheck everything I don’t know why it was checked by default if add this to your tutorial in the future if someone runs into it
@@grabbitt one other small issue the . Key on the numpad that zooms in isn’t responding and I’m unable to find any information on that online but I’ll worry about it later
So far, every time I try to render a scene, Blender crashes? I have a 4090 graphics card and 64Gb RAM but I just am losing my mind over the constant crashes - any advice and guidance ??
@@grabbitt Did that but this animation render - th-cam.com/video/ncYj-Wj-X38/w-d-xo.html - took ALL DAY as Blender was still crashing after every 6 - 10 frames - could you do a video on best render settings for Blender please. Any thoughts on the animation would also be appreciated. Haven't got to grips with Shading and Materials yet (obviously).
I'm so mad i spent a week frustratingly trying to follow a stupid donut tutorial as an absolute beginner. I wish i found your videos beforehand. Absolute wonderful teacher thank you for taking the time to make this content available for us.
the donut one pissed you off aswell 😂😂😂 i was just gave up on that one, i was doing evrything he id and it was happening differently loool thank goodness we found this channel
I honestly think the donut challenge is a test to see if you will dig deeper to find the real blender basically the donut is the bbc of blender😂
That donut tutorial does contain some very good learning, imo
Same here...i am total beginner in Blender, i found that many people recommend Donut tutorial (idk why), i managed to get to the part 5 of his tutorial when things were starting to get really complicated and non understandable...i found on reddit that guy named Grant Abbitt is an excellent teacher for Blender, so here i am...i will continue Donut tutorial, hate to leave things half finished, but its not ideal starting tutorial for beginners.
I'm not too fond of doughnuts unless you are going to eat them.
i finished the donut tutorial with blender guru the other day - after this i was so overwhelmed and didnt have a clue where else to go. I can honestly say your videos are a breath of fresh air and i find comfort in them weirdly. You are also a great teacher!! I will be consuming as many of your videos as i can until im ready to set off on my own - thanks Dad.
Are you calling him dad as a thanks, or is there a plot twist here that im missing....
Ha ha that doughnut gave me nightmares 😂😂😂😂😅😅😅😅
You can REALLY tell when someone has actually taught others. I've been following some of your paid courses and trying to find people on TH-cam with free tutorials has been VERY frustrating. They're either very hard to understand, or they just word vomit at high speed leaving no space to work along unless you're frantically pausing and unpausing. Let alone stopping to explain WHY you're using the tool they're telling you to use.
I appreciate you going at the pace of an actual beginner.
I`ve been using Blender for around 3 years now but never on a consistant basis, so I`ll be watching along with this, as there`s still alot of the process of navigating, modelling and texturing I need to make second nature.......cheers Grant!
At 33:12 you mention turning on Ambient Occlusion by checking the appropriate box. Well, I'm using Blender version 4.2.3 and after an hour of poking around the web I learned that that option has been removed from the EVEE rendering panel along with things like Bloom. So, you might want to put a note in the description.
That being said, I've done many of your excellent tutorials in the past and am just coming back to Blender after at two year hiatus, so this item is just perfect for re-learning the basics I had forgotten.
THANK YOU!! I was about to look this up bc I didn't see it either. thankfully this was comment up top
It seems like I found "Ambient Occlusion" under a checked "Raytracing" tab. "Raytracing" -> "Fast GI Approximation" -> "Method" -> switch from "Global Illumination" to "Ambient Occlusion"
This is amazing!!! I am a newbie to Blender and I have been feeling so overwhelmed trying to figure out where to start since there is so much out there to look through. Took me a few hours to get through but I am actually remembering and finding my way around the program finally. Cannot wait to do part 2 and engulf myself in your other tutorials!! Thank you for ALL you do!!!
You have many more great Grant Abbitt tutorials waiting for you when you finnish this beginner course :-D
One of my first Blender tutorials was your "Man and Monster" Tutorial, which helped me a lot.
Even if I'm no beginner anymore, I'm sure this will be great to watch :)
yeah same for me!!
help me with the link pls
@@SalimAbdumaliki th-cam.com/play/PLn3ukorJv4vuU3ILv3g3xnUyEGOQR-D8J.html is the playlist you want. It's a great tutorial, and taught me a lot!
@@SalimAbdumaliki th-cam.com/video/jnj2BL4chaQ/w-d-xo.html .. it was 2 clicks away tho..
0:00 - 5:00: Introduction to Blender Interface and Navigation
Basic navigation: middle mouse button to orbit, Shift + middle mouse button to pan, scroll wheel to zoom.
How to select and manipulate objects.
5:00 - 10:00: Basic Transformations
Transform commands: G for grab/move, R for rotate, S for scale.
Locking transformations to specific axes using X, Y, Z.
Undo and redo commands: Ctrl+Z and Shift+Ctrl+Z.
10:00 - 15:00: Introduction to Mesh Editing
Switching between Object Mode and Edit Mode using Tab.
Basic modeling tools: E for extrude, Ctrl+R for adding edge loops.
Manipulating vertices, edges, and faces.
15:00 - 20:00: Introduction to Materials and Basic Rendering
Using the Shader Editor to apply materials.
Adding nodes with Shift + A.
Setting up lights and rendering the scene with F12.
20:00 - 25:00: Working with Modifiers
Applying Subdivision Surface for smoothing geometry.
Introduction to other modifiers like Mirror for symmetrical modeling.
25:00 - 30:00: Texture Mapping Basics
Introduction to UV unwrapping for texture application.
Simple adjustments to UV maps for better texture placement.
30:00 - 35:00: Animation Basics
Keyframe animation: setting location and rotation keyframes.
Using the Dope Sheet to manage keyframes.
35:00 - 40:00: Rendering and Exporting
Final render settings adjustments.
Exporting images or animations.
Grant, I was missing your longer videos! Like the axe, pistol tutorials, happy to see a new one
I couldn't in good conscience move on to another video without stopping to thank you. I've learned more practical use cases with Blender's features in 45 minutes than I have with hours of other people's stuff and no offense to them it's the truth. As I was adjusting each thing, especially with making the craters, tons of ideas popped in my head like making eyeballs, a water mine, a face and lots of other things. Though you have 20 years experience you haven't forgotten about us beginners and more importantly you're a fantastic teacher at this. Thanks! 🙏
I successfully finished the Donut tutorial, but left out feeling really overwhelmed. I also felt as if I didn't retain much information so I left Blender alone for months. Found this tutorial and everything is soaking into my brain like a sponge absorbs water. Thank you so much for this
THANKS for this very helpful video! I've watched a lot of so-called "*beginner* tutorials" for Blender but this is simply the BEST. Everything is explained in an easy-to-follow manner with lots of exercises for the viewer (I think that's the only way to learn the basics of Blender). What I liked also: Finally someone explained the use of the Shading workspace in a way I could understand it. Looking forward to part two already. 😃
So I'm quite sure that I'll purchase your Blender beginner course pack from the description. 😉
Thanks 😀
Grant's videos are SUCH a fantastic resource! Thank you for updating to v4, I'm looking forward to getting back into Blender after a year or so away.
Great to hear!
Oooo Blender 4 is out!!! I’ve been so busy working I don’t think I’ve powered on my computer within the last few weeks. But now I will!
33:18 Ambient Occlusion/Screen Space Reflections is gone in the latest version of Blender but you can select Ray Tracing instead.
(Thank you for the tutorial)
if you have a mouse wheel pushing it in also works for moving the camera around. So you don't need to emulate 3 buttons.
Thank you, it has been a year away and when a client requested a 3D model I knew just the man to go get a refresher course from.
Probably the best beginner guide i've seen! Thank you.
Couldn't have come at a better time 👍currently looking for course to break me in - thank you
Hey been watching your channel for sometime now and think all your vids are fantastic - here may be a quick tip for you though - after adding an object (like around timestamp 36 mins) and you forget to make those initial adjustments and that menu in the bottom left disappears, instead of deleting the object and re-adding it back in you can simply just have the object selected and hit the F9 key to bring it back - if you have made an adjustment in edit mode it will not bring that menu back and you will have to delete that object or if you add a modifier it will then bring up a menu for that modifier you added to it depending on what modifier you add (sub-surf will allow you to change subdivisions) others may vary. Hope this is a handy tip you can add to your future videos. And keep up the amazing video's, love your work very inspirational.
I too have long wanted to get back to that initial adjustment menu, so I was glad to see this comment. However I can't make it work as written above: I hit F9 with the object selected and nothing happens. I'm using version 4.2.3, if that makes a difference.
Oh, I see now. You _can_ get back to that initial menu with F9 if you happen to close that menu, but not of you make an adjustment of scale or position.
What a fantastic resource, thank you Grant for taking the time to put this together for us. I've enrolled to so much of your content/courses recently I feel like I'm becoming a Grant Abbitt groupie 😆 but seriously appreciate your no nonsense teaching style.
Thanks :)
Hi Grant... Donut tutorials aside ;) ... your tutorial is the best online for Blender.
simple yet very informative and not to fast paced. so thank you for this.
THANK YOU! This is exactly what I was looking for with getting started with Blender. I found it helpful to make a sticky note of the keyboard shortcuts for now since I'm just getting into it.
Absolutely brilliant tutorial. Thank you
One of the best tutorial for beginners, thank you!
Amazing stuff! Thanks for this.
I'm mad I didn't have this kind of tutorial when I started a year ago. I once had a mesh covered in doubles and I thought the only way to fix it was to delete one and manually reconnect them all. Wondering how much of my trepidation in making good stuff just comes from that era, when I didn't know a good way to do any operation, much less what any of those operations were called
Love Blender 4 new additions! Especially the light linking option. That was something I have been waiting for a long time.
This man needs to go down in history as one of the best people ever. Much love grant! Soon to 500k Subs
thanks :)
great video. helps to understand blender interface easily.
Excellent video. Super great for new person. That's not butter, that's just good truth. @15:54 your cube has a "material" already applied but mine doesn't. Maybe I deleted the original cube and made a new one? (I did the first 10 minutes a day ago, don't remember if I did or didn't; regardless - I'm ever so slightly lost at this moment...but I'll keep watching and I'm sure it'll sort itself out.)
EDIT: Better yet, have a small dose of patience and in a small bundle of seconds arrives the how to do it.
You can add a new material in the shader editor in the top menu
Best Blender tutorial by a mile Grant, thank you!
brilliant beginner tutorial. Very easy to follow as a compete level 0 user
That's awesome! Thank you, Grant!
Excellent intro, I'm on my way. Just downloaded 4.2 and made donation. Thanks from Colorado.
Nice
You're the greatest teacher on TH-cam grant ❤
best beginner tutorial ever... thank you for this video
19:27 purple 🤣 great guide man
Love your work. Thanks for all the solid content
I finally have my new Mac! Yay! I can do all those courses I've paid for. :) On the M3 Mac, there is only None or Metal in the Preferences>Cycles Render pop-up so no ability to select optix, CUDA, etc
Yes you will want to pick the other options that aren't cuda
Hi Everyone, i'm having the age old problem of, "My blender isn't like the one in the tutorial". As in 33:00, I don't have "ambient occlusion" or "screen space reflections" in my render tab. Why?
The raytrace button now does both
@@grabbitt thank you, professor!
Thanks! Great tutorial!
36:10 If accidentally lost the add menu, you can press F9 to get it back.
Okay. Going to give this a go with 4.2.
Holy cow. I need to take a breath once in a while. I'm still using V2.9. lol
34:42 Sir I didn't understand the key which key you are talking about?
Thank you Sir 💓
Same keys as moving the viewport normally. So middle mouse button...
@@grabbitt thank you sir for your support ❤
I am a big FAN of you.. Like the way you explain in detail...
Pls suggest what should be my PC/Laptop configuration for a big projects so that I no need to change now & then... PLS REPLY
See my best computer for blender video
Tq so much ....
Wow, so cool! Like it ! Inspired with your project 👍🏻
I'm noob here been in SFM for 8 years and just now trying to learn blender its difficult for me to learn this since I'm used too SFM for so long but I can't wait to watching this and learn how to get better it this 😢
Can you Add Mouse touch Screen Add on for This. It really helps which button you clicking
It wasn't available at the time because of blender 4 updates
oh okay @@grabbitt
Top tier tutorial! 🤌🏽
Hey so with the planet I’m having a couple problems. Specifically for the part where you grab the crater that’s “too tall” when I go to select the edges and move them with grab it only moves them and the crater edges stay in place so if I sink it in I get some very broken edges?
This has been so much easier than any other tutorial I’ve come across thank you so much!
Figured it out, apparently I tried extruding first and it bungled it up so I had to undo and grab it
can't wait for the next part.
Please do a Tutorial for modeling objects for product design and 3D printing.
14:50 I'm getting a black sphere on the left, and the foresty sphere on the right, thus I can't actually see any colours beyond black and white even when changing the material - does anyone have any ideas what's up here?
does it work in a new scene if so select everything and copy it into a new scene
So at the 11:39 mark and moved monkey as you did then I moved the plane under it just to see suzanne sitting on the flat surface but if I rotate view so I'm looking at the plane from underneath I can't see the plane? Is that normal? Not new to Blender, just getting back into it and don't remember this issue. I like to see from underneath to make sure objects are firmly planted on the surface.
Well now at the 14:52 mark and after moving all objects onto the plane I instinctively tilted the scene to view from the bottom and I now can see the plane from the bottom where as it would disappear before
*Great ! got to relearn blender again, btw last time is watching your low-poly sheep tutorial XD*
46:16 When I move it only moves that part and not the entire crater
You may have doubles. See my video in my quick tips playlist
Hi
I really love this tutorial after looking for a slow and steady tutorial this makes it for me
but there is an issue
I'm using blender 4.2.3 and I can find the Ambient Occlusion, bloom and screen space reflection settings in the EEVEE options
see my recent video on bloom
what of the Ambient Occlusion how do I find it
see other comment about raytrace
Grant: Problem with using the Nvidia RTX4000x series is the huge power consumption (> 250W on average), which makes creating and rendering projects very expensive.
I think it's not as much as many other common household appliances. I believe a fridge is around 300
104k views but just 3.2k likes? C'mon guys, give a lil back for this great tutorial. It's just clicking a button man.
My Version doesnt have any of the Render settings you were tinkering with, i dont know if they changed the name of them or got rid of it entirely in an update.
The raytrace button replaces a couple
@grabbitt cool thank you!
thanks, great tutorial. however, I HATE blender's focus on keyboard shortcuts... you recommend we dont use the gizmo... alright, how is typing several times all over the keyboard faster than dragging gizmo where you want to on screen? also can you even move objects on 2 axes with shortcuts?
You are off course welcome to use the gizmo if you need to
Grant will do share the second part today ?
Tomorrow
thanks
My middle button mouse is broken, what can i do to change the controls so that when i click shift and space i can move around or alt space or a keybind like that
use emulate middle mouse button in options
Can’t add a bookmark I think it’s because downloads is selected in the system and recent section how do I unselect them
Is there a way to just rest the layout view in shading tab. cause every time i try to adjust the windows i mess up and things go all out of wack i just want a button I can click on to just have it revert back to the default layout
Thankyou Grant for this very easy to follow tutorial! I am having an issue smoothing the torus during the render settings. I left click the torus but right clicking does nothing but move the cursor. Is there another way to bring up that popup?
It's usually shift right click to move the cursor. I think it's also under the object menu though
Mr Abbit, can i use blender 4 with the class on gamedevTV or do i need to fins an older version? and how different would the UI be if i use the lastest blender? Thanks and cheers. I forgot to mention it is the complete blender class.
Blender 4 will be fine
@@grabbitt Thank you
Lovely ❤
Great! There will be a low polly well on my moon ;)
14 minutes in and am loving this tutorial.
Quick question. My cursor looks like a grid when I’m adding objects from the left menu. What is causing that display and how do I turn it off?
From the left menu? You might need to share a screen shot
@@grabbitt hey I keep replying with a link to the TH-cam video I put up that shows the cursor I’m talking about but the reply keeps getting deleted?
@@ElCidPhysics90 send it directly to my email
What a great video
Good video
i dont have any numpad nor do i have a period key on my said nonexistent numpad. how do i do it
Use the coordinates in the corner
You explain everything very well. Thank you❤
Thank You.
I'm new to blender, but I saw that blender 4 is quite new, do all the tutorial for Blender 3 are still doable with this new blender 4 ?
pretty much yes. there are only very slight changes which should be obvious when going through tutorials
i have a question if i may, when extruding my third crater and using the invert I tool my crater starts separating triangles individually, instead of all the anchor points together like in the previous 2 craters. Any idea why?
You may have some doubles
i also faced this problem - for anyone else with this, in the 'Insert Faces' window that pops up on the bottom left corner after you've added a face, you need to tick off 'Individual' - you'll see this in 42:34,,, hope this helps!
Very well explained process for beginners. I was going great until 'texturing'. When I change to the shading workspace, all my objects are 2D grey - not white even though my default cube has material white in the shader editor as in video. If I switch viewport to 'solid' they go 3D grey. Tried playing with material color but objects remain grey. Hoping Grant or someone is around who knows what I'm doing wrong - thanks
Top right of the viewport change to material preview mode
@@grabbitt Thanks but in material preview mode (as you are using in the video - between 'solid' and 'rendered') all objects are 2D dark grey.
@@angkorman4437 i'm afraid i dont know what's happened for you there. maybe share a screen shot with me and tag me on discord
@@grabbitt Thanks - I will follow up in Discord. I appreciate your time.
Hi Grant - Any chance you can do a proper video tutorial on sculpting with alphas and textures (with Blender 4). I keep getting horrible results, when I have a subd-4 an object (for high resolution) and I do the brush setting "stamp" the result of the ornament looks like geometry vomited.
have you checked my sculpting playlist and the video on alpha textures
@@grabbitt I have yes, It's quite an old video though - think you did it in 2.8. Any chance you can make a v4.0 doing a through breakdown/overview using brushes with alphas. Also with the proper/desired modifiers. For example, I use mulitres modifier and I keep getting horrible results when I try to use alphas.
Hello @grabbitt
This tutorial video (as well as the 2nd part video) seems to have some age restriction set in place. My 12 year old kid can't open/play it, while I can. Is there any way you could fix this, please?
I think there's a setting which is aimed at children or not. For the sake of ease I always say it's not aimed at kids as I have to meet more requirements to allow this. I'm not sure I can change it once released
@@grabbitt First of all, let me tell you something I should have said in my first comment: I really like these Blender tutorials of yours. I really think that they are top shelf stuff. Second of all, many, many thanks for your kind reply. And now, my (humble) opinion about that age restriction technicality : it's not a problem at all if you set your videos to be "not made for kids". That's the name of the settings, I believe, you cand find it in the "Audience" section, where you have 2 options: "Yes, it's made for kids" / "No, it's not made for kids". But right below those 2 option though, you'll find another section: "Age restriction (advanced)". If you click to expand this section, you'll see other 2 options: "Yes, restrict my video to viewers over 18" / "No, don't restrict my video to viewers over 18 only". I think that you set your video(s) to "Yes, restrict my video to viewers over 18". And you definitely CAN change that one it once the video has been released, no problem. It won't affect the number of your views, it won't get you in any trouble at all. Short recap: a video CAN be watched by a kid even it's set to "No, it's not made for kids" (you don't have to change it, it's OK to leave it like that), BUT the age restriction has to be set to "No, don't restrict my video to viewers over 18 only". Don't get me wrong, it's pretty easy for me to let my 12 yo kid watch your tutorials by allowing him acces to TH-cam via my account, but since your videos really don't show any "18+" content at all (at least this 2-part tutorial doesn't, anyway), I don't see any reason for him not being able to enjoy your content using his own account. If you get rid of that "18+" barrier maybe you'll get more young viewers/subscribers/avid learners. My kid would surely be one of them. Thank you again for your kind reply and for your work, which is amazing, please keep it up. You've just got yourself a new subscriber (the oher one is still standing by 😉). And finally, please excuse my English, I'm not a native speaker.
PureRef I think is "pay as much as you want" not free :D
Yes true
Why doesn't my HDRI show up in the background of my object window? It's listed in the little thingy at the bottom (whatever it's called), and all's hooked up as it should be, at least I think so. Oh, and my render window is awfully bright, rendering the objects invisible. Update: turning off scene lights in render view fixed the brightness problem.
Are you in render preview
@@grabbitt I am now, and I do see the HDRI. However, the image looks completely different from viewport shading. Okay. checking Scene World bring back the HDRI in viewport, but all the plane's color and material output are gone. Thanks for the tutorial and for checking in with us plebes :).
Man you voice is SO much better than that neurotic donut guy.
Why am I stuck on the rotate part in the perpendicular view for some reason my cursor reads a rotation but the monkey head itself isn’t roatating do I have an option selected wrong?
Sounds like youbhave some sort of bug?
@@grabbitt yeah I’ll retry tomorrow
@@grabbitt so good news I finally figured out what the problem was after a day of searching it was under the settings and transform tab of active workspace I had to uncheck everything I don’t know why it was checked by default if add this to your tutorial in the future if someone runs into it
@@grabbitt one other small issue the . Key on the numpad that zooms in isn’t responding and I’m unable to find any information on that online but I’ll worry about it later
@@GameMasterProducts frame selected. Have you got anything selected?
when i do inset face its work for ech face not for all togather
Press i
Yes, thank you. My problem is that I was constantly pressing i, so the incet shape changed@@grabbitt
during process i accidently bring to life hi-ler how can i fix it
Which os is optimised for blender windows 10 or windows 11
I always go with the most recent, more because of the graphics card usually being optimised for latest releases
So.... wait .... Blender can do more than glazed Donuts ?
Perfectly explained, but why oh why record all that without Screencast Keys !? ;)
because they were not available for blender 4 at the time
Ty gentleman 😊
Should I or should I not deleted my previous Blender Icon on my desktop after I reinstalled bender 4???
you might as well i guess. Although its not doing any harm
@@grabbitt ok my blender tutor 😁
So far, every time I try to render a scene, Blender crashes? I have a 4090 graphics card and 64Gb RAM but I just am losing my mind over the constant crashes - any advice and guidance ??
Check driver updates
@@grabbitt Did that but this animation render - th-cam.com/video/ncYj-Wj-X38/w-d-xo.html - took ALL DAY as Blender was still crashing after every 6 - 10 frames - could you do a video on best render settings for Blender please. Any thoughts on the animation would also be appreciated. Haven't got to grips with Shading and Materials yet (obviously).
splendid....
ill download this damn bridge here 26:50
😂
36:00
I am trying to make a fnaf game similar to Dormitabis and this will be helpful
wow