Transitioning to Blender 2.8

[Kaj Suominen]

@jakeblended bugger. guess i have to wait until they have release candidate and maybe then themes have more customization options available. thanks for the reply. 🙂

[Pavel Mazanik]

Left click select is by default now 😀

[Jake Korosi]

@nekronavt It is indeed – a very very big change.  An unexpected one, too!  And they’ve done work to make left-click mode more usable generally, as well.   I’m ambivalent about whether I will continue with right-click, which I’m now so used to, or change to left-click again.  Both styles are fully functional and valid.  Right-click for me still has that single, but to me very important, advantage of having different buttons to click for selecting and actions/operations.  But there’s no denying that right-click select was very difficult for brand new users to adapt to.

[ollavulpes]

Who do i need to bribe to get the search bar put back into the space menu? i use it constantly and f3 is a terrible key to press when your hand mostly rests over the lower left of the keyboard as thats where most of the important keys reside. 

[Pavel Mazanik]

It’s happening, folks!

Blender 2.8 Beta

[Pavel Mazanik]

@ollavulpes you can selet spacebar action in input preferences or on splashscreen.

[Jake Korosi]

@ollavulpes You are in luck!  As of yesterday/s daily build, the option to set Spacebar back to search is there in the User Preferences – which, by the way, has now been renamed to Settings.

Also, the option of whether to use Left or Right click select, as well as whether to use Space for Tools, Search, or Playback, are now presented in the splash-screen when you open Blender 2.8 for the very first time.

If you’ve been experimenting with 2.8 builds for a while, in order to see the “first time” splash screen you will need to delete the prefs files that Blender has already created on your C drive.  You can do this in Windows by going to your username directory’s AppData folder.  Go to [username directory]/AppData/Roaming/Blender Foundation/Blender/ and delete the entire 2.80 folder there.  I don’t know where these files can be found on Mac or Linux I’m afraid….

[Jake Korosi]

Oh, everyone, I forgot to add……a couple of days ago, MULTIRESOLUTION MODIFIER NOW FULLY WORKS!

That was the last big one I was waiting for; working multires was the only reason I still wanted to begin some projects in 2.79.  With this, I think I can now finally move to 2.8 exclusively.  It’s been an exciting week in Blender 2.8!

[Pavel Mazanik]

@jakeblended wow, that’s nice to know, thanks! It compensates the fact, that my current project crushes, when I try to render it in today’s Blender 2.8 beta build. 😀

[silentheart00]

@jakeblended Woohoo!  Multires!

[silentheart00]

Hmm, it appears if you open an alpha file where you switched the right click to left click into beta, it won’t work in beta, even if you change the setting.  How mildly infuriating.

Edit: Appending into a new file resolves this issue.

[Jasmine Wongus]

Thanks for posting this, Jake! I’m trying 2.8 out…and I’m scared of it. But since you have this guide, it’s been great to lay things out as I’m used to!

For me, User Preferences still says User Preferences… I guess a later build may say Settings. 😮

[Kornei Sgibnev]

Does somebody know how to navigate in camera perspective blender 2.8 beta?

[Pavel Mazanik]

@korneisgibnev098 shift+~ is what you are looking for?

[Kornei Sgibnev]

@nekronavt It doesn’t work for me (((

In blender 2.79b I used Numberpad 0 to change view from user perspective to camera perspective ad then I clicked Shift+f to move camera with W, A, S, D.

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