unlike most three applications, blenders default selection.
Mouse is all done with the right mouse button.
Now you can change this by simply going into your file and user preferences
and then underneath the input section and I'll tour all of these settings later.
But in the input section you can see we have a select
with option here which allows you to choose either left or right.
And this will set which mouse button is used for most kind of selection techniques.
Just be aware that this will also change
some other fundamental things in blender as well.
Where if they were previously on the left mouse button will now be on the right.
For demonstration purposes.
We're gonna go ahead and use the default right mouse
button but if you wish to change it you can switch
it over to the left mouse button and they simply click
save as default to save those as your default settings.
However leaving it as the right mouse button for now selecting objects
in blender is as simple as just right clicking on them.
So you can see if I select an object you know as it
turns orange and the transform manipulator is
then centered on that objects origin.
So selecting any one of these objects is no problem.
If you want to select multiple objects
simply hold down the shift key and use your select mouse button whether that's left
or right my case it's the right mouse button so hold down shift and right
click on the next object and you'll add that to your current selection if you
wish to remove one of these objects from your selection you must first make it.
The primary selection where you'll notice that
The 2 1st 2 objects I selected are kind of a darker orange now
and the lamp which was the last one I selected is a brighter orange.
This means that it's a primary selection
and secondary selection.
So if I want to remove say the camera from my selection I would
first hold down shift and right click on it and you know it becomes
my primary selection and then I can right click on it again while still
holding down shift and it will remove that from the selection as indicated here.
Next if we want to select items from the outline er which again
is our hierarchal view of all of the objects within our scene.
It's simply a matter of left clicking on them,
no matter which selection mouse using just left click
since it's within a menu system of sorts.
Left clicking on that object will select it.
If you right click on an object, you'll bring up a
select menu that allows you to select the select delete or other options here
to de select just use the d select option.
If you hold down shift you can select multiple
objects by just shift left clicking on them.
Or if you want to use if you have many objects in
here just assuming for a moment that this complete list is field.
We can actually use border selection by pressing B.
And that will bring up this border selection allows me to just left
click and drag across these two then select all of those objects.
However let's look at some more of the selection options within the three D.
View port.
First of all if you want to toggle everything either selected or un selected
it's simply a matter of pressing the A. Key
and the A. Key.
Well if you have anything selected will de
select those objects and anything else or if you
have nothing currently selected it will select everything
within your current scene within your current layer.
Now layers and such. We'll look at a little bit more later.
So again I can select everything with A. Or de select with a again
now a couple of different selection options aside from just the right click is
to use either a paint lasso or border selection in the three D.
View port.
First of all with the lasso selection.
So the last of selection is just done by holding down control and
left click and drag an again it's just left click and dragging.
Although I believe if you switch to the right mouse button as
your main default it will now be right click and drag.
Minor inconsistency but that's all right just keep that in mind.
And the last of selection allows you to
draw out complex selections simply by holding on control
left click and drag and just drawing around the objects
that you wish to select if you wish to de select
with this simply hold down control and shift and you
can de select any of the objects that you wish.
Next we have our border select.
The border select is the same thing that I demoed here by pressing B.
And allows us just to press B. Which point will go into border select mode.
And then you can just left click and drag across these objects and you'll select them
if you wish to de select with them
simply hit B. And use your middle click and drag to draw across those.
If you go into border select mode and decide that you don't wish to
select anything simply hit either escape or your right mouse button to cancel.
For most transforms in blender either escape or the right mouse buttons cancel.
And then left click or enter is confirmed.
Lastly the or circle or paint select tool can be accessed by pressing the C key C.
For circle and gives you a circle which you can then adjust the size by using
your scroll wheel up and down or the plus and minus keys on your number pad.
And with these you can simply just left click and paint across any object
that you wish or middle click and paint or middle click and drag.
Excuse me. And you can de select any item you wish