Setup

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B4Artists Changes

If choose B4Artists, check out the page on it above. It contains the settings and exclusive features that b4a provides.

https://github.com/Victor-IX/Blender-Launcher-V2

This is a Launcher that allows you download a bunch of different build for blender including the b4artists fork. This is good if you want to try both or keep up with the new builds.

Add-ons

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Blender can be a lot to learn or have annoying things about it you wish you could change! Add-ons can help mitigate the nitty gritty and add new functionality- or even just make basic functions intuitive.

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Green - Quality Of life

Orange- Very Handy but can do without

Free & Useful

Paid Quality of Life Add-onโ€™s I use

Paid but great for Artists and stylized works!


Learning Blender

Default blender

Default blender

b4a tool bar with more panels & buttons!

b4a tool bar with more panels & buttons!

If you are using B4A, there are more tool buttons on the left that exposes many of the menu Hidden tools as buttons.

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You can pin a menu you want to always have by using Right Click

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Concept & Modeling

I recommend having a test file where you can just play around with new tools as you learn of them! Better a throw away file than throwing away your hard work cause you did something and have no idea what that was.

Key Tools and Panels โœจ

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These are the basics you will likely need to get started

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Tool bar

If you see that little arrow in the corner- it means you can Click & Hold to bring up more options for the tool.

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