Don't Wear Jorts

New to Blender?  No problem. The bare bones. Blender is a very hard, but at the same time a very easy software.  It takes a while to learn the key mapping, but for the most part the interface is straight forward and blender has a strong community.      Doughnut tutorial:   This tutorial is widely known in the blender community and for a good reason.  It goes over the majority of base principles used in 3d.  You can find other renders of other newbies and pros all over the internet, look it up and see how you compare to others!      Hot keys:   Hot keys are very necessary in most software, but blender, you shouldn't even use it if you can figure them out. . .  To me the most necessary keys are:      - SHIFT + A  pulls up the object list.  Add cubes, lights curves etc. . . all from this menu      - N  Properties      - T...

Twin Motion added to Unreal Engine! Twin Motion added to Unreal Engine! Free download ends early 2020! Twin Motion In Epic Launcher      Epic Games has implemented Twinmotion, an architectural visualization software, to their Unreal Engine Launcher !  In order to get Twinmotion free (FOREVER) make an account with Epic Games and install there launcher.  Then open the launcher and select the Unreal Engine tab, look to the top of the screen and click on Twinmotion, click install and make an account with them.  (If Twinmotion is not showing in the launcher click here )      Twinmotion also has a website called TwinLinker , this allows you to easily show off your work with others, I suggest making an account there as well. Don't wear jorts , your blog spot. Thank you, Ben.

Set up.    Blender, a free 3d and 2d software used for modeling, sculpting, animation, drawing, texturing shading and more! Blender 2.81 launch screen      Blender is an outstanding free software that continues to grow rapidly and is gaining more and more attention!  Check out my blog on how to get started with blender here. My Suggested Setup   This is my start up file for blender 2.81.  Everything is up to personal opinion, though humor me and consider some of these settings. System Preferences       When opening blender for the first time I suggest running to your system preferences.    Go to the upper left of your blender and click edit, scroll down to preferences and click that.  Setting changes will vary based on your computer, though I would look at and change these two settings: Cycles render devices and undo steps.  Change your render settings comparatively t...