All language subtitles for 02_02_preferences

- [Zach] In this video,
let's have a quick look

at the Blender preferences,

which I would recommend to
better follow this course.

First of all, a quick note

on the Blender versions
I'm using in this course.

For the first part of this course,

I'm switching between Blender 2.93 Alpha

and 3.0 Alpha.

I'm mostly using the Alpha versions

because I want the
course to stay up to date

as long as possible

and in these Alpha versions,

there is already a feature,

which I'm using in the course,

which is not in a stable state yet,

which is the Asset Browser.

In the Alpha version of Blender 2.93,

the Asset Browser was included.

However, in the stable

or in the Beta version of Blender 2.93,

it is not included anymore.

So if you really wanna
follow this course here,

you need Blender 3.0 or later,

so make sure to go to
builder.blender.org/download

and download the latest
Blender 3.0 version.

So here I have Blender 3.0 Alpha opened

and now let's have a
look at the preferences.

Either go to Edit, Preferences

or just hit F4 and click on Preferences.

So I just wanna quickly go through this.

I don't wanna explain
everything in too much detail

because this is more part
of my beginner courses,

like the Blender Launchpad course,

however, here I just
wanna quickly show you

what I have enabled.

So under Interface, first of all,

I have disabled Splash
Screen and user tooltips.

This is just my personal preference.

You can leave this enabled,
of course, if you like.

Then I enable developer extras.

This is only important if
you're using an Alpha version

where the Asset Browser is
not included by default.

So because when you enable this,

you can see down here

we get this extra button, Experimental,

and if you click on this,

you can enable the Asset
Browser, which I recommend.

We will learn more about the Asset Browser

in one of the next videos
here in this chapter.

Then also what I like to
do under Temporary Editors,

render in, change this from New Window,

which is set up by
default to Image Editor,

unless you like that each
time you render your image,

it will pop up in a new window.

However, if you have Image Editor enabled

and start rendering something,

so if I hit F12, it will just
replace the current 3D view

to the Image Editor

and then you can simply
press Escape to get back

and if you press F11,

you can also get back to the render.

So this is, of course,
your personal preference.

If you like new window, leave it there.

And under Status Bar, if you like,

you can enable the scene statistics

to see like how many objects

and stuff like this you have in your scene

but this is optional as well.

Under Themes, I don't change anything,

same on the viewport, lights, editing,

everything stays the same.

Also animation.

We will enable some
add-ons during this course.

However, this I won't
talk about right now.

These we will enable later on

as soon as we need them.

Then under navigation,

I have orbit around
selection and depth enabled,

which makes navigating in the 3D viewport

much more easy in my opinion.

Under keymap, here under preferences,

make sure that the space
bar action is set to play.

That means if you hit space bar,

it will play the animation,

which is especially useful later on

when we are in the animation chapter.

Also, I have pie menu on drag enabled.

That means, by default, when
you have an object selected

and hit Tab, you are
switching over to edit mode.

However, if you're holding down Tab

and then just move your
mouse in any direction,

this pie menu will pop up,

which allows us to quickly
switch to any other mode

for example, the weight paint mode

or back to edit mode.

And this allows us to
quickly change the mode

without going up here and
switch to the different modes.

This again is, of course, optional

but I really like to use this.

Under system for the
rendering process later on,

you can check here if you
either can enable CUDA

or Optics for Nvidia graphics cards

or OpenCL for AMD graphics cards

and here you can even
enable your graphics card

and your CPU,

so both will be used for rendering

when rendering with the
Cycles Render Engine.

However, you don't have to care

about these options here at this point.

This is something I will get back to

when this is important.

And here you can also increase
the undo steps to 256.

So you can press Control + Z 256 times

if you have done some mistakes,

which can be very useful, of course.

Under Save & Load,

I can recommend to check compress files

so the Blend files will
be a little bit smaller

and you can also enable
auto run Python scripts.

That means if you're installing an add-on,

then this will run automatically

without be blocked when
you open a new Blend file.

So this is just a safety thing

but when you know the source

where you download your add-ons,

then you can just leave this enabled.

Under file paths,

you can see I set up a special
asset library file path

for my Cubic Worlds asset library

but what this means, I will
show you in a separate video

in this chapter here.

And we don't need to save anything

because down here, auto
save preferences is enabled.

Then just close this
and we are good to go.

And yeah, these are the preferences,

which I would recommend

in order to smoothly follow this course.