When you open the brand new Blender 2.5 Alpha version, you will notice that a lot has changed. For one, buttons are now vertical, and most of them have new icons and names.
When they rebuilt Blender from the ground up, a few things were moved for the better. You know all those “industry professionals” that complain how awful the Blender interface is? Well these changes were designed to keep them happy. Most of your favourite functions are still there, just hiding.
This 2.5 interface guide should get you back on the straight and narrow. I have tried to include all the frequently used functions, as well as common blunders encountered when using Blender 2.5 for the first time.
Set Smooth/Solid
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Add Menu
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Join screen
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(similarly, dragging the cursor in the opposite direction splits the screen)
Spin/Screw/Flip Normals/Rem Doubles
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Background Image
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Logic buttons
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IPO Curve
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Move Header
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Buttons
Side-by-side comparison…
Window type
Side-by-side comparison…
Radiosity buttons
Previously…
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Missing something?
There’s a chance that the button you’re looking for is not actually hardwired into blender yet. But fear not! Because a useful function has been added that lets you create your own button.
For example, I use the ‘Center New’ button constantly, but strangely it’s missing from Blender 2.5.
Here’s how to add it to your toolbar:
You can do this for virtually any function in Blender. So if you’re tired of looking for a lost button, this can provide a temporary fix.
That concludes the Blender 2.5 interface guide. Was it useful? Is it missing something? It is by no means complete, so if you think something should be on the list, drop a comment below and I’ll see if I can help!
Where are “Real-Time Properties” for animated textures (UV editor) in 2.5 ?
Where is frame per second button????
I have a huge problem… all tutorials on Internet talk about old version and in 2.58.1 i can not find Buttons Panel.
I am trying to make a Circle and set the number of points, so the circle can be a Triangle, Pentagon, etc…
I see on Internet tutorials that old version it could be configured on Buttons panel, but i do not find where such configuration is now, neither where is buttons panel.
Thanks for the rest, will help much.
P.D.: On Internet there are out there a lot of tutorial, but most of them are for version 2.4 and on 2.5 most of things of such tutorials do not work or do something different, such as Shift+F, Buttons Panel, etc…
Press F6 emediately apon creation of the circle. Or if you have the tools panel open “t”, you will see those options at the bottum of that list of tools. However as soon as you move the object those options dissapear.
One more thing…
When i press T the panel hides, if i press T again the panel is shown again, but on it i do not see “Tool Shelf”, so i do not see “Add Tool” button anywhere.
I see “Object Tools” and “Operator” tabs on Tools panel but not “Tool Shelf”.
How can i make it to show “Tool Shelf” tab?
Thanks!
Where is the ‘To Sphere’ button now? (I’ve now got Blender 2.58)
@AliSpark
Using to sphere…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX6rELdgjNM
this is a very good blog!!!
im new at blender so can u tell me where can i find the oops schematics in blender 2.59??…thank´s
Ive got blender 2.5 ver 90 im struggling to use array modifier .I have downloaded alot of video that show me how to do it but when i try it it completely comes out skew and sometimes bigger than the original and some even show different dirrections.Andrew Price can you please help me man nowhere on the internet can i find a good tutorial about this.
I’m not find how to show normals in edit mode. Please some help
I started out Blender with version 2.58 and I just got version 2.60. I’ve noticed a few changes in this new version. In the right 3D editor viewport properties panel the Dimension sliders/buttons have disappeared. I assume you have to make do with just the Scale sliders/buttons? Still I agree these versions of Blender are looking very professional and polished although it takes some time to que used to them.
where can i find the button for converting a bezier curve to poly?? pls help… PLEAAAAAAAAAAAAAASE !!!