Blanchsb’s Blender Nuggets

[Ingmar Franz]

I hope it doesn’t look too mean lol.

@blanchsb Your new avatar looks determined to master all challenges 😀👍!

[Keith]

What a great idea for a thread @blanchsb thanks for sharing these!  👍👍

[Shawn Blanch]

You are most welcome. Feel free to contribute as you find something that truly helps your workflow @beefkeef (hint hint, share your meatball wisdom with the community!)

[redditfag69]

Thank You For This Helpful Tutorial

[Shawn Blanch]

With pleasure! Such great nuggets in this amazing program. There will be more to come I am sure of it.

[Ingmar Franz]

Just checking whether new nuggets have been panned from @blanchsb ‘s Klondike 😉💰🏞🤠 . . .

[Shawn Blanch]

I’ll post the next nugget I learned shortly. It’s an outliner nugget and has to do with modifiers

[Ingmar Franz]

@blanchsb I also have one nugget with modifiers: Since Blender 2.92 (but not in the Alpha version) you can copy a single modifier from the active object to all other selected objects where it is added to the already existing modifiers:

[Ingmar Franz]

A useful shortcut for the application of modifiers exists in Blender since version 2.9 (but not in the Alpha version!): Click on a modifier in the stack so that it gets highlighted with a blue frame:

Now, you can press CTRL + A (whith your mouse pointer still in the “Properties Editor”) in order to easily apply that modifier.

[Shawn Blanch]

Gold Nugget #10: Outliner and Dragging to Link  Modifiers

This one comes from @phoenix4690 kindly showing me this awesome nugget.
You can drag individual modifiers from one Object to another Object in the outliner.

My favorite it dragging all of them….. like below:

Linking was never easier!

[spikeyxxx]

@duerer and all that follow this great thread, from 2.93 onward, this behavior has been changed (luckily!).

CTRL+A now Applies the Modifier that the Mouse Pointer is hovering over.

Here CTRL+A will Apply the Subdivision Surface Modifier, not the active (with the blue outline) Build Modifier:

[Ingmar Franz]

Thank you, @blanchsb and  @phoenix4690 for this Blender Nugget! This is quite useful!

[Ingmar Franz]

@spikeyxxx When I first heard about this CTRL + A shortcut I think it mentioned that you apply the modifier where your mouse pointer is hovering over. But due to many crashes in Blender 2.93 Alpha, lastly when trying to bake “Indirect Lighting” in EEVEE (which wasn’t possible with 2.93 Alpha at all on my computer!), I switched to 2.92 where the shortcut only worked the way I’ve described it. This was very confusing and I thought I was remembering incorrectly. So, thank you, @spikeyxxx , for that clarification 😀! Now, I no longer need to doubt about my memory 😉😀!

[Martin Bergwerf]

This has been around forever (tested it on the oldest Blender version I have on my computer, 2.66), but I just learned about it, (because it has gotten a sorting improvement): if you have several Objects behind eachother, or even when they are occupying the same space, you don’t have to go to the Outliner to select what you want, or cycle through them by keeping selecting; you can use ALT+Select and that will give you a list of all the Objectts ‘under’ your mouse pointer:

Maybe everybody already knew this, but it’s new for me.

[Shawn Blanch]

That is great @spikeyxxx. I didn’t know that either!

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