There can never be enough tutorials as we all learn differently and even when watching someone go over the basics again there's a chance we might see something we didn't know before so my hope is that you'll continue documenting your journey into Blender.
I've watched several tutorials on section methods and none of them mentioned that you can click on different areas of a face to control the direction of the face loop selection. It's super simple and very useful! Thanks for the tip!
Thanks, this is a great tutorial. There's so many video's out there that claim to be for beginners that are almost impossible to understand when they're just realing off their morse code of 'left click, ctrl A, press S, drag out, ctrl M'.....it's important when learning to understand what the short cut keys are actually short cutting to and the majority of the time, they totally leave out the multi and path selections. I had no idea how they were selecting a ton of edges together to apply a bevel, now I know thanks to you. ps, you have the ideal voice and articulations for tutorials.
I've been using blender as a supplemental tool to other 3d softwares for over a year and this is one of the best tutorials I've seen. I actually learned several new skills here and am very grateful for this video and your style of teaching. Thank you.
There's also Select Linked which is neat. Select a face/edge/vert and hit L on the keyboard - it selects all the attached faces/edges/verts. Or you can hover the cursor over a face, hit L and it'll select the linked faces. Also, you can set constraints to select link materials, uvs etc
Wow!!! I downloaded Blender 2.93.5 about seven and a half weeks ago. Lately I've been having difficulty selecting face loops to go in the correct direction. You can probably imagine how much time I've spent following the most intricate of loops to make sure I get every last face!!! Just WOW, thank you soooooo much for this simple explanation!! You have a new subscriber on this alone, thanks again :-)
Great video thanks for posting. I come from a 3dmax and Maya background and have finally decided to give Blender a try. I'm really digging the selection options in Blender. The loop selection is pretty intuitive now that I know it matters what region of the face you're selecting. The one thing that's disappointing is not having an option to change selection culling. Having to toggle xray everytime I make a selection is driving me crazy since 99% of the time I want to select both front and back faces.
So great to see you using Blender. Welcome to the club. I know the many shortkeys are a challenge but you will get there. I have one more for you, to reset the 3D cursor press Shift+C That resets the cursor to the world origin and also brings all the objects in the view.
Thankyou so much bru, it's been 2days I was learning to creat a room , by watching tutorial on u tube but I was stuck on face selection...but FINNAL I learned 💙
Thanks alot!, you eased me the stress of selecting faces one by one with shift, as alt + left click keeps giving me vertical loop selection, thanks alot 😇
For horizontal loop selections (including inside faces in xray mode, very handy) do this. Hover the selection cross to the left or right of the middle of a vertical line (in Edit / Face Mode), with the ALT+SHIFT down (first selection just ALT needed), until you have all of the horizontal faces selected you need. (Blender 3.3 tested)
6:30 this technique is amazing, I knew it was possible to do, but I couldn't remember how, now I have it in my mind, thanks for sharing your knowledge ❤
glad to see you doing this. 2.8 got my attention as well. really a game studio could dump costly and manipulative autodesk and go totally blender and save tons of money and have way less hassles. the smart studios will do this. better sculpting and udim support are coming soon along with many other features as this just keeps going. 20year max maya guy here. im finding blender more fun to work in.
thanks for this i applied for a 3d modeling job and they made me do a office chair with like a matress with grooves which i dont know if i should spend time sculpting with mouse or just do edit mode but in the end it just gave me a hard time on selection those selection and just redo it and ended up putting meshes instead of a whole mesh
This is really a great tutorial, I have been try to hop in blender and learning my way around , this video helped me learning some really cool techniques along with the shortcuts, (been fan of your work on substance )
very helpful, your voice is calming, I watched this video because I have an issue, it seems that blender doesn't completely deselect all, in the outliner you will find the mesh icon of the last selected and deselected object is still grayed(Active) and when I go to the shader mode to try select materials and then "select linked by material" the last deselcted object changes its material as if it was selected, also this confuses me while modeling because I have one object selected while the changes happen to the other object with the grayed icon in the outliner.
Hi Wes. Finding all of your vidoes fantastic. Do have a seperate question about getting vertex colours onto models in bledner. I downloded your SpiderBot for your substance painter tutorial but I cant reverse engineer how you got vertex colours so nicely onto the model. Any bledner tips for this? did you do this before you merged all the individual parts? or is there some trick to do this once all the parts have been merged? thanks
Thanks much! So glad you like the videos. What I use in blender is the Set Vertex Color - Shift + K menu. In Vertex Paint mode, I use the Vertex Selection option to select vertices then Set them to the color. I will bounce over to the Object Mode to use selection tools, then go back to Vertex Paint mode and then use Set Vertex Color. In the Spider Bot, I did have individual parts. I don't think I merged it down to one mesh. But even if you do use one mesh, you can go into Object mode and make selections then go to Vertex Painte mode and Set Vertex Color. For me, the key is going to Object Mode to make my vertex selections : )
To all 3D tutorial content creators on TH-cam: *You don't need to set up the whole scene from start every time you want to show something. It's okay to start out with the assets you need to show that specific thing.* Thus, skipping to 1:30 - just to get to the point.
I learned many selection methods, thank you. Still If I do edge split and create some sci fi look to that sphere, then how to select the edge split portions with a click. I saw many of them used that edge split and select but I don't how, I asked them but not replied. Can you please tell me how, if possible. Thank you
I did stop with Blender for a while. I started trying other 3D apps as well such as C4D. I am starting to use Blender again. I ended up really liking C4D for mograph tools and found it easier than the geometry nodes in blender.
If you can't find any tool or shortcut in Blender, you can press F3 ( Operator search menu) to look for whatever you are looking for. They've upgraded that menu a lot more with the V4 release and it basically everywhere.
I am sorry, I am not sure on 2.7. I haven't used that version. The x-ray mode should be there. The shortcut is ALT + Z in the latest versions. It might still be the same in 2.7.
There can never be enough tutorials as we all learn differently and even when watching someone go over the basics again there's a chance we might see something we didn't know before so my hope is that you'll continue documenting your journey into Blender.
yeah he didnt
@@stratabegood Still working on it!!! 😎
I've watched several tutorials on section methods and none of them mentioned that you can click on different areas of a face to control the direction of the face loop selection. It's super simple and very useful! Thanks for the tip!
Thanks, this is a great tutorial. There's so many video's out there that claim to be for beginners that are almost impossible to understand when they're just realing off their morse code of 'left click, ctrl A, press S, drag out, ctrl M'.....it's important when learning to understand what the short cut keys are actually short cutting to and the majority of the time, they totally leave out the multi and path selections. I had no idea how they were selecting a ton of edges together to apply a bevel, now I know thanks to you.
ps, you have the ideal voice and articulations for tutorials.
I've been using blender as a supplemental tool to other 3d softwares for over a year and this is one of the best tutorials I've seen. I actually learned several new skills here and am very grateful for this video and your style of teaching. Thank you.
Glad it helped!
Thank you so much! I was struggling to select backfaces! and got the bonus of learning all the little tricks.
I've been looking for the Cntl & + for ages as this defo speeds up the workflow - thanks dude!
1:39 its when he actually start explaining.
Thanks
Ty so much lol
I was stuck in brush selection mode. Using the “W” key not only helped me out of it but im saving so much time on my models. 🙏🏾🙏🏾thank you
There's also Select Linked which is neat. Select a face/edge/vert and hit L on the keyboard - it selects all the attached faces/edges/verts. Or you can hover the cursor over a face, hit L and it'll select the linked faces. Also, you can set constraints to select link materials, uvs etc
Wow!!! I downloaded Blender 2.93.5 about seven and a half weeks ago. Lately I've been having difficulty selecting face loops to go in the correct direction. You can probably imagine how much time I've spent following the most intricate of loops to make sure I get every last face!!! Just WOW, thank you soooooo much for this simple explanation!! You have a new subscriber on this alone, thanks again :-)
Glad I could help!
Quick, clear and precise! Great video! Thank you so much, exactly what I was looking for!
SUPER clear and practical, you don't play with the viewers :) thank you!!!
Nice, just the tutorial I needed. Thanks for contributing to this great Blender community!
Great video thanks for posting. I come from a 3dmax and Maya background and have finally decided to give Blender a try. I'm really digging the selection options in Blender. The loop selection is pretty intuitive now that I know it matters what region of the face you're selecting. The one thing that's disappointing is not having an option to change selection culling. Having to toggle xray everytime I make a selection is driving me crazy since 99% of the time I want to select both front and back faces.
So great to see you using Blender. Welcome to the club.
I know the many shortkeys are a challenge but you will get there.
I have one more for you, to reset the 3D cursor press Shift+C
That resets the cursor to the world origin and also brings all the objects in the view.
YEAH! Welcome to Blender gang!
I have been recruited
Blender is a nighmare
Thank you so much for this video!, this really helped me in modelling better! very quick, informative and straight to the point.
Great, you saved my day! This loop selection was exactly what I was looking for!
Glad I could help!
Thank you! As a former Modonaut making the leap into Blender, this video is a perfect starting point.
Thanks! Same here. Former modonaught
Great video, these are some very effective and versatile methods. Keep up the great work!
Thankyou so much bru, it's been 2days I was learning to creat a room , by watching tutorial on u tube but I was stuck on face selection...but FINNAL I learned 💙
Great tutorial.. Calm simple and straight forward, well done!!
this was very helpful, thanks! I couldn't figure out how to select through the object until I watched this.👍
Thank you for the X-Ray mode tip
i was searching for this :)
Thanks a lot mate. I was super confused in the vertical and horizontal loop select and you solved my problem. ❤
Glad it helped!
7:17 Exactly what I was looking for to select the whole object. Thanks!
thanks for saving my life....i was finding those techniques for selecting not complete loop but some continuous faces...again thanks
CRTL SHIRT + is such a time saver. Wish I had known this years ago!
THANKS!
ikr, shirts are so amazing!
how can we do it in mac os?
Thanks alot!, you eased me the stress of selecting faces one by one with shift, as alt + left click keeps giving me vertical loop selection, thanks alot 😇
For horizontal loop selections (including inside faces in xray mode, very handy) do this. Hover the selection cross to the left or right of the middle of a vertical line (in Edit / Face Mode), with the ALT+SHIFT down (first selection just ALT needed), until you have all of the horizontal faces selected you need. (Blender 3.3 tested)
Oh... man... you are really a time saver ♥ Thank you
Great. This is what I was exactly looking for
1:10 also you can press Alt+G and it'll reset all coordinates of the selected objects. Same works with R for rotation and S for scale.
Bohdan Lvov Also the F3 to find reset command for transform.
Useful af. Thank you
6:30 this technique is amazing, I knew it was possible to do, but I couldn't remember how, now I have it in my mind, thanks for sharing your knowledge ❤
Happy to help!
i was trying hard to fine such a helpful video .thanks a lot
the control + L is really help me out!! Thanks !!!
Oh, you have that perfect voice for tutorials. I’m jelly.
Thanks Wes! Very useful to me...a new starter!
Glad it was helpful!
that x-ray is really what i needed, thanks.
Thank you man, you saved me alot of time!
what a life saver this video is. thank you!
Awesome! Thank you : )
glad to see you doing this. 2.8 got my attention as well. really a game studio could dump costly and manipulative autodesk and go totally blender and save tons of money and have way less hassles. the smart studios will do this. better sculpting and udim support are coming soon along with many other features as this just keeps going. 20year max maya guy here. im finding blender more fun to work in.
Indeed, Blender has the LTS release as well, which is great for use in a long term project.
Thank you :) you helped me very much for modeling
This is incredibly helpfull, very good video. Thank you
Wes, thank you so much for tutorial .
Many thanks!😆
thanks for this i applied for a 3d modeling job and they made me do a office chair with like a matress with grooves which i dont know if i should spend time sculpting with mouse or just do edit mode but in the end it just gave me a hard time on selection those selection and just redo it and ended up putting meshes instead of a whole mesh
thanks you so much for sharing this for free. you help me a lot.
that was so good thank you Wes. amazing
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank thee, you make me happy, I am going to look your video like 40 times
I'm glad you like it
you are the selection master!
This is really a great tutorial, I have been try to hop in blender and learning my way around , this video helped me learning some really cool techniques along with the shortcuts, (been fan of your work on substance )
Glad it helped! Thank you much! I am thinking of updating this video using the latest version of Blender.
this was very helpful, thanks!
Couldn't figure out why it was only squares! Thank you!
Welcome to the club, Wes! ;)
very helping,...i just wanted to know only about selection features in blender... and dont want to go through a 2 hour vedio..thank you brother..
Awesome tips.. thanks alot for sharing.. will make the transition from Maya easier
You're amazing! Thank you so much :D
Glad I found this video. Thanks
Thanks for checking out the video!
Really useful! Thank you!
SAVED MY DAY THANKS
this helpt me out alot thank you!!
Nice video! thx for the info!
Very helpful, thx!! super new to blender
You're very welcome!
You saved me man, thank you so much
Glad I could help
thank you so much dude you helped me a lot
Glad I could help!
thank You, great tips.
Knowing that the linked all option exists is a eureka moment for me thank you very much.
rip my wasted hours...
Thanks for explaining....its helped
very helpful, your voice is calming, I watched this video because I have an issue, it seems that blender doesn't completely deselect all, in the outliner you will find the mesh icon of the last selected and deselected object is still grayed(Active) and when I go to the shader mode to try select materials and then "select linked by material" the last deselcted object changes its material as if it was selected, also this confuses me while modeling because I have one object selected while the changes happen to the other object with the grayed icon in the outliner.
Help a lot bro ! Thanks
Thanks for sharing Wes
Good video. Thank you
Very helpful, thank you
bruh you made life easy, thanks
It helped a lot. Thanx
Appreciate man for real
Thanks man!
Thank you so much !
Thank you so MUCH BRO ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you so much! I wasted hours, trying to draw a rectangle with the Select Circle-Tool activated😂🤦🏽♂
Hi Wes. Finding all of your vidoes fantastic. Do have a seperate question about getting vertex colours onto models in bledner. I downloded your SpiderBot for your substance painter tutorial but I cant reverse engineer how you got vertex colours so nicely onto the model. Any bledner tips for this? did you do this before you merged all the individual parts? or is there some trick to do this once all the parts have been merged? thanks
Thanks much! So glad you like the videos. What I use in blender is the Set Vertex Color - Shift + K menu. In Vertex Paint mode, I use the Vertex Selection option to select vertices then Set them to the color. I will bounce over to the Object Mode to use selection tools, then go back to Vertex Paint mode and then use Set Vertex Color. In the Spider Bot, I did have individual parts. I don't think I merged it down to one mesh. But even if you do use one mesh, you can go into Object mode and make selections then go to Vertex Painte mode and Set Vertex Color.
For me, the key is going to Object Mode to make my vertex selections : )
Useful video thanks bro 🙏
To all 3D tutorial content creators on TH-cam:
*You don't need to set up the whole scene from start every time you want to show something. It's okay to start out with the assets you need to show that specific thing.*
Thus, skipping to 1:30 - just to get to the point.
Thank you for this feedback.
I learned many selection methods, thank you. Still If I do edge split and create some sci fi look to that sphere, then how to select the edge split portions with a click. I saw many of them used that edge split and select but I don't how, I asked them but not replied. Can you please tell me how, if possible. Thank you
Thank you sooo much man
Great video, thank you! (coming from 3DS Max) - I notice you've not done any more Blender videos, did your journey end or are you still with Blender?
I did stop with Blender for a while. I started trying other 3D apps as well such as C4D. I am starting to use Blender again. I ended up really liking C4D for mograph tools and found it easier than the geometry nodes in blender.
Thank you!!
Well explained Bravo
Do you still use Modo? I'm learning Modo. Really like it but didn't seem to have a big community.
thank you for this userful fideo!
Thank you sir you helped me so much
You are most welcome
thnx , well explained.
Ty mate.
cntrl + l was what I was looking for :D
If you can't find any tool or shortcut in Blender, you can press F3 ( Operator search menu) to look for whatever you are looking for. They've upgraded that menu a lot more with the V4 release and it basically everywhere.
Thank you much! Just getting back into Blender again : )
I feeel just like you. thanks for this
this was a very helpful tutorial! Is there a possible way to only select the front side and not the back on 2.70? Is there a way to turn off xray?
I am sorry, I am not sure on 2.7. I haven't used that version. The x-ray mode should be there. The shortcut is ALT + Z in the latest versions. It might still be the same in 2.7.
Thanks!
thank you bro
great video! when i try the loop selection, it doesn't work. i hold alt and press the face but it doesn't work. please let me know asap!
well made tut thanks alot
Glad it helped!