Yeah,
yeah,
what we have here is five windows and we can tell the contents of each window
by taking a look at the far left of each header bar in each window.
So if we come down to the bottom left here we can see
that there's this little Q bike on there with some couple of triangles,
which means that we can basically click on here
and we can see all the various different
windows that we've got available to us within blender
and this one is the three D view,
so you can swap the contents of this view
by just clicking something else on the list there,
just below the three D view.
We've got the timeline and on the right hand side we've got another two windows,
we've got the outline at the top which is just going to give us
a kind of list like view of everything in our scene below that.
We've got the Properties window and at the top here is our fifth final window.
We've got the
info window which doesn't really look like much of a window.
I realize it looks more like just a typical menu bar,
but if we left click and drag on the line that segments between
the three D view and this header bar here at the top,
we get this double arrow headed icon that means that we can now left click
and drag here up and down to just resize things and you can see the contents
of the info window or just sort of squished up at the top there and
this is the sort of thing which is pretty handy for scripting and so on,
so I'm just gonna left click and drag that back into
place and you may be forgiven for thinking that this was
a window as well because it sort of doesn't look too
different to this properties window over on the right hand side,
but this is actually just a tool shelf, this is a sidebar,
so we've got the Tiki which can toggle that on
and off and it basically belongs to the three D.
View, which is why it doesn't really have its own icon.
So the contents of the tool shelf which is as I say toggled on and off with the Tiki.
We can see that it's divided into sort of two main parts.
One is the list like view that we have of the various different options,
they're the various different tools and we have the tabs down
the side which basically served as categories of the various tools
that we've got and this is just to save us from
having to scroll too far to find what we're looking for.
Now we can you press the end key to take a look on
the right hand side of the view and that's going to that end
for november by the way and that's going to show us the property
sidebar and we can scroll down the view there with the middle mouse wheel
and we can do the same thing on this side,
we can use the middle mouse wheel to scroll but we
don't need to because it's fairly compact on that particular tab.
But if we click on some of these other ones you can see
we slightly get reason to scroll there and something else that we can do
in here is hold control and middle mouse wheel up and down to
just kind of quickly scroll through the various tabs that we've got there.
If you want to just quickly get down to the bottom and
you kind of looking for something that speeds things up for you.
So as indicated before we've got these double arrow
headed icons that we can use to resize the screen
and we can do that with the sidebars as well.
In fact we can squish them all the way in and you can see sometimes you get
these little plus icons then which would just be able to flip them back open again.
Or as I say we've got the tiki and the N. Key, they're going to come in pretty handy.
We're gonna be using them a lot.
We've also got ahead of themselves can be left click and drag down to hide them.
And then you can see that we get a little plus icon for those as well.
So not only can we sort of customize the dimensions of all the screens,
we can actually just quickly launch into various different
preset layouts that we can take advantage of.
So for example we can come up to the top in our head of the info window
and we can left click on this where it says default to the side of it.
And this is going to show us various different window layouts depending on
the kind of task that we might be trying to achieve in blender.
So for example, we might like to be doing some script in.
So if we click over to that,
we get more of the info window and we get the python console dot on the side there.
A text editor.
Perhaps we might like to try use some UV editing,
which of course we're gonna be doing a little bit later on and that's just going to
show us the UV image editor and the three D view on the right hand side.
And we can actually scroll through these fairly quickly by just holding control
and using the left or right arrows to just kind of go through there
and we can come back to our default view to create our own custom layout.
We can just click on this plus icon there
and that will duplicate the currently loaded screen layout
and then we can just rename this to something
more meaningful like default custom in this case.
And then we can resize windows to however we like,
we can change the contents of them and then when we switch back to the default view,
you can see that let's remember that there and when we
go control right arrow to basically go down this list here.
So control left, we'll take you up and control right, we'll take you down.
You can see it's remembered all our layout
and that will remember whether we've resized things,
whether we've taken windows away,
added extras or change the contents of them or what have you.
If you don't like it,
you can just click on the X icon and that will remove the layout from this list.
So that takes us to our next issue,
which is how to create extra windows and take them away again.
So I think the easiest way to do this is just to come to the gap between two windows.
So for example if we just come down here,
that's anywhere where we get that double arrow headed icon there,
just to resize the window.
So while we're on there,
if we right click we get the area options which is split area and join area.
And when we let's choose split area first,
you can see we're gonna split the three D view there somehow.
Or if we just come down here we can see that we're going to split the timeline.
So let's split the three D view and you can see now we've got duplicate of that.
And if we want to join them again,
let's just go in between right click and then join the area and
then we can get this large overlay darrow showing us that we're gonna
collapse the in this case the left hand side window into the right hand side.
So let's just left click and do that.
Another way we can do that is by just coming to the top right hand corner of any of these
windows and you'll see this three line little lines that
we have there and when you get in that corner,
your icon should change to a little plus symbol.
And that allows us to left click and drag down to split down and
then left click and drag to the left in this case to split sideways.
And we can also collapse by sort of doing that in reverse order.
We can left click and drag into this window to collapse it.
We have to make sure that we still have
our left mouse button pressed and that means we can
actually change which area we're going to collapse into
until we let go in which case it then collapses
and then we're going to need to collapse up into this window now.
So it can be a little bit tricky.
You may need to play with exactly how that works to split areas and so on.
But I think you'll get the hang of it.
So something else that we can do is we can go
full screen with shift space with the cursor while in any
area that we have here we can maximize the timeline by
making sure our cursor is down here and then pressing shift space
and then shift space to toggle it back to where it was and then
saying with the properties and then shift space to toggle it back down again.
There is another way to do that.
So similarly to the way that we were going control
left and right arrow to toggle through the custom layout.
The layouts,
I should say we also have control and up arrow to be able to if we just press that twice,
it toggles it through can also just go control down arrow.
They basically all do the same thing.
Something else that we can do is quickly pop out of you.
So if we're at the top here, we've got this plus icon,
we can just hold shift and left click and then drag out the window and that
allows us to now sort of reposition this on a separate monitor if we like.
Or we can close that down, we can also swap the contents.
So if we press control and left click
in the same place where you get that plus icon in the top right hand side,
you can get this other little icon that you get once you drag
into the view and that means you're gonna swap those views around.
So the three D view now becomes at the bottom of the timeline is at the top
and then we can just control left click and drag into
the each other's window to swap the contents around again.
So that's all I think you'll need regarding customizing the layouts
and generally moving the windows around so let's move on.