All language subtitles for 02_03_workspaces_preset_file

- [Zach] In this video

let's have a look at the
workspaces preset file,

which I provide to make creating

Cubic World scenes a bit easier.

So when we are just opening
up a default blender scene,

we can see that we have a
lot of workspaces up here.

For example, for Modeling,
Sculpting, UV Editing,

Texture Painting, and so on and so forth.

However, for creating Cubic World scenes

we don't need most of these workspaces,

but on the other side we could
need specialized workspaces,

and since I created a bunch
of Cubic World scenes already

I know what is important,

and that is why I created a special preset

which includes some special
workspaces up here already

which are focusing, especially,

on the tasks which we need for
creating Cubic World scenes.

So there are two files
attached to this video,

so make sure to download them,
then click on File, Open,

then navigate to the folder
where you downloaded these.

And here we have the cw_workspaces_empty,

and the cw_workspaces_basic_scene.

The cw_assets we will discuss
in one of the next videos.

So let's start with the empty one,

select this and click on Open,

and, here, you can see
it looks a bit different

than a default blender file.

These editors, here, are
structured differently,

and up here we have different workspaces.

I always edit the CW, which
stands for Cubic Worlds

as you may guessed.

And here we have a workspace
for Creating Cubic World scenes

for Shading, that means adding color

for animating the Cubic World scenes.

We have one workspace for
previewing the Cubic World scene,

when we made some bigger progress,

and we also have a workspace

for Compositing the final render.

However, to better
understand all these editors

let's go to File, Open
and open the workspaces

basic scene instead.

Because the empty file
was completely empty,

as you have seen, however,
in the basic scene preset

we have some basic objects already.

Here, in the creating workspace,

let's enable the rendered Viewport Shading

to better see what's going on.

And here we have a basic
ground, a camera set up

and a light set up, so it's
the very basic setup you need

in order to get started
creating Cubic World scenes.

So and later on, we will
work with the Asset Browser.

I have a dedicated video about
this in this chapter, here,

and it might not be connected correctly

when you're just opening the preset file.

However, from here we can just drag

and drop objects into our scene,

for example, a basic cube, yay.

Well this cube is not too basic,

but we will talk more about
this cube in a later video.

So here we have the 3D Viewport,

which we will, of course,
use to create our scenes,

color our objects, and so on and so forth.

Here we have our Asset Library,

which will contain a bunch of objects

which we just can drag
and drop in our scene

to quickly create our Cubic World scenes.

Then over here we have the Outliner

which we will also use a lot,

because we will create
different collections

and place our objects inside.

And in this basic scene preset file,

I have set up the main collections already

which we use most of the time,

however, here, most of them are empty.

That means if you don't
use some of these later on,

you can just delete them.

Then, over here, we have
our Properties Editor

where we can set up, like,
render settings, modifiers

and all object related
settings, as you probably know.

And, as you can see, I created
a very long Outliner here,

and that's because we will
work with a lot of objects

in these Cubic World scenes,

and this makes working with
the Outliner a bit easier.

Down here we also have the
Timeline, as you can see,

to playback the animation.

That means when we are working
on the animation of the scene

we might switch between
these different workspaces,

and there I always edit the Timeline

so we can play and stop
the animation easily.

The Shading workspace, as you guessed,

it is for adding color,

however, this is more when we
are doing some special tweaks,

here, because even here,
in the Creating workspace,

when we have an object selected,
under the Material tab,

we can find all the settings we need,

because, here, we are using
a special Cubic World Shader,

but I will tell you more
about this in a later video

in this chapter here.

However, here in the Shading workspace,

instead of the Asset Browser
we have the Shader Editor,

which allows us to do fine
tweaks on our shaders.

Then we have the Animation workspace

which allows us to animate everything.

Here we have the Graph
Editor on the Dope Sheet,

and if I move this up here,

also the Nonlinear Animation Editor

and down here, the Timeline.

So most of the time I just,
like, drag this around,

depending on what editor I need.

And, here, we also have the Outliner

and the Properties Editor.

So this workspace is, of course,

set up in a way that we can
easily animate our scenes.

The Preview workspace, as you can see,

has all the overlays and gizmos disabled,

so we can see how our scene looks

from the camera perspective,

and I would also recommend
to enable the rendered

Viewport Shading so we can see
the final scene, basically,

directly in front of our eyes.

And then the Compositing workspace.

In this basic scene setup,

we already have some nodes set up here,

for a simple vignette and lens distortion,

and chromatic aberration effect.

So this is something I, basically,

add on top of each of
my Cubic World scenes,

so we don't have to set
this up again and again.

Yeah, and in this Compositing workspace

we will, like, add some
effects on top of our render,

but more about this later on.

And when we will work through the course

we will, of course, switch a lot between

these different workspaces here.

Now let's go to File, New and
click on General, don't save.

Now let's imagine you
have created a scene,

but you don't have used the
preset file from the start,

and now you wanna change
the user interface,

to the preset file,
without changing the scene.

For that, let's go to File, Open

make sure to open the empty
workspaces file, click on Open,

and then go to File, Open,
once again, then navigate

to the folder where you have
saved your blender project.

In my case, it's
campfire_animation_34, for example,

but before you now open this,
press N and disable Load UI

because by default, it will
load the user interface

which is stored inside this blend file,

but when I disable this it will just keep

the current user interface
which I have opened here.

So select this, disable
Load UI and click on Open.

So now you can see this
blend file was opened,

and the user interface stayed the same.

That means for this scene,

we are now also using the
Cubic Worlds preset file.

However, now we have the entire
scene, here, in this file

and then you can also see, for example,

here, in the Preview workspace, we can see

exactly how the scene will
look like, pretty cool.

Yeah, and with this preset, here,

we will work the entire
time in this course.

And, of course, when
you have loaded a file

with the the preset here, then
make sure to save this again

so that the new user
interface is also saved inside

the blend file, and then you
don't have to reload this,

in the future, again and again.