Another tip: Each time you hear "don't move your mouse" in this tutorial, you can substitute that with "click the right mouse button" (on new controls). This apply whatever tool you have started working with (extrusion, loop cuts, etc) in its default position, undoing any mouse movement. Much easier than "don't move".

@AllThingsFilm1

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. :)

I've been learning blender for about 6 weeks and I have yet to try the spin tool. That is so cool, how have I not tried it yet? Making perfect circles and arches and curves is for some reason mysterious but I guess it's so common that's why they put a tool in to do that.. thx for the tips.

On the cylinder ring trick, you can scale along the normals by using Alt + S, which saves you from having to change the origin to individual origins. You can shorten this even more by using Alt + E and clicking on extrude along normals option, which will extrude and scale on the normals in one swoop.

@DanielGrovePhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Oh great tips! Thanks I didn't know about those commands.

The last tip was a new one for me....Thanks fpr thr added knowledge

Currently modelling something I was dreading to rig, but in the last min of the video you dropped a gem 👌🏾👌🏾

@DanielGrovePhoto

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah that one is great for me since I don't do organic stuff and hate bones! Thanks for watching and don't miss part 2! kzread.info/dash/bejne/YmlrvMqHpbGsZ8Y.html

This has got to be one of the most helpful and straightforward videos I've ever seen 😭 thank you so much, been struggling making my meshes as a beginner and this really just opened a new door for me ❤️

@DanielGrovePhoto

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for saying so! That's always my goal and you're not the first to say so which makes me know I'm doing the right thing. Keep blending! Check out my other hard surface videos on here, loads of gems.

Great video, this should be compulsory viewing for all Blender beginners (like me!)

@DanielGrovePhoto

Жыл бұрын

Agreed! Haha who needs the donut tutorial anymore!?

you are making the best blender videos !! thank you so much !

@DanielGrovePhoto

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I'd have to agree lol nah there are some geniuses out there that blow my mind every week! I'm just zeroing in on the few things I'm good at and have gotten some great feedback!

Bless you man, simple and effective

Some of the best useful Blender tips for every day use. Thank you for this video. 💐🎯

@DanielGrovePhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for those kind words! That's my goal.

So many tutorial on YT ... it took me a while to find you! Everyone as a different mindset and I guess yours is close to mine! As a photographer and a maths passionate, your videos find path to my crazy brain much more than other. Thank you very much for sharing your precious knowledge.

@DanielGrovePhoto

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for saying so! I appreciate the encouragement and glad to hear that you are enjoying my content!

this channel is literally what I needed to feel confident about blender for a beginner. Thanks!

@DanielGrovePhoto

2 жыл бұрын

So happy to hear that! Work your way through my blender playlist and youll be on a great start

thank you...top notch quality, excellent narrative, very well put together.

@DanielGrovePhoto

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! This is one of my most popular videos. I have a part 2 and 3 as I love hard surface modeling. Find them in my Blender playlist and subscribe for future video!

@aydinj3894

2 жыл бұрын

@@DanielGrovePhoto Absolutely! Cheers.

Woah, great video mate!

Awesome. Thank you for the tutorial.

All tips are very solid and helpful for beginners, but the last one about parenting, I totally didn't know about even with some experience. I will absolutely integrate this into my workflow :D All in all a useful compilation, thanks for sharing!

@DanielGrovePhoto

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! Yeah the parenting thing happened out of necessity.. or laziness once I started trying to learn rigging and bones. I found they are more geared to organic models and it didn't make sense why a multi piece hard surface model like a robot should be joined as one mesh! I like having control over objects and not joining them. So I found parenting a good easy route for animating robotic type stuff. be sure to put the pivot or origin points where the joint is AND lock / limit rotations for the object so it will only move the way you want.

@janthummler3548

3 жыл бұрын

@@DanielGrovePhoto Best things develope out of laziness :D But i totally agree, I am also more interested in mechanical stuff, like mechas and such, but rigging seemed always kind of overwhelming. So your tipp will be massively usefull!

This is very helpful, thanks my dude

@DanielGrovePhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it thanks for writing!

13:22 you can do that by pressing shift + R. This hotkey repeats the action you previously did. So, you can repeat anything infinitely.

@DanielGrovePhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Oh I love that trick but at the time of this recording I thought I had to press enter before moving between commands which killed the usefulness of shift R. But I learned otherwise and am happy someone pointed that out!

The best teaching from best teacher gave awesome lesson. Thank you. God Bless You.........

@DanielGrovePhoto

3 жыл бұрын

You are very welcome

Some of the best tutorial iv ever seen

@DanielGrovePhoto

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!!! Check out the part 2 where I built a whole hall way and the top 10 hard surface modeling tricks too. Great stuff.

@cyberwar5579

3 жыл бұрын

@@DanielGrovePhoto sure i will check that out too

These videos are so useful and well expained. Many thanks man.

@DanielGrovePhoto

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Be sure to check out part 2! kzread.info/dash/bejne/YmlrvMqHpbGsZ8Y.html

Thank you so much for making this video! It's really helpful, especially the robot arm posing part in the end.

@DanielGrovePhoto

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome how did you find it and what else would you like to see me cover?

Great tips, thank you!

@DanielGrovePhoto

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Be sure to check out part 2! kzread.info/dash/bejne/YmlrvMqHpbGsZ8Y.html

Awesome video, thanks mate

@DanielGrovePhoto

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Check out part 2 and 3 too!

you are a beast tutor ! big props

@DanielGrovePhoto

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

Very useful video, thanks!

@DanielGrovePhoto

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and enjoying it.

Thanks for these tips. Very practical and useful. Admire your work too. Big fan of the Tron and sci-fi modular stuff.

@DanielGrovePhoto

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Be sure to check out part 2 of Hard Surface Modeling Tricks. And thanks I love making it, it's a nerds dream come true!

Nice tutorial. Was still able to do about 70% of it in 3.2 (gave up on the final cutout part due to time, but expect to figure it out on 3.2 soon). Thanks for a great tutorial, still good even 2 years later.

Cool, useful tips, with clear presentation. Thanks!

@DanielGrovePhoto

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! That's my goal. More to come soon!

Very useful, especially the robotic arm and the panel trick

@DanielGrovePhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks and glad to hear that. Any suggestions for future videos?

best video! absolutly great

@DanielGrovePhoto

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!! Check out part 3 it's got some gems in it too and a compositing trick that can do wonders to renders.

I love your blender videos! Huge fan

@DanielGrovePhoto

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! More on the way be sure to subscribe!

I love your intro so much!

This is so cool thank you for this video..❤️

@DanielGrovePhoto

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Check out part 2 and my other blender videos. Lots of gems there and some free downloads. I have some awesome and cheap kitbashes and materials as well if you google Daniel Grove Designs I'm on gumroad and blendermarket.

Awsome tips great help to me as I continue down the road to learning Blender...Thank you, Daniel.

@DanielGrovePhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Great to hear thank you!

Great stuff! Keep 'em comin!

@DanielGrovePhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Any suggestions for future videos?

@JohnGetchel

4 жыл бұрын

@@DanielGrovePhoto I'm the same guy from fb. Sadly no....

This is really cool

@DanielGrovePhoto

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Part 2 is in the works!

This is actually really helpful

@DanielGrovePhoto

2 жыл бұрын

That is my goal for my whole channel! Thanks for watching and be sure to check out parts 2 and 3 of this as well as my other Blender videos.

These are fantastic tips for a new user. Coming from Maya, this helped me big-time. Thank you!

@DanielGrovePhoto

4 жыл бұрын

That awesome to hear! Welcome to the free side :D check out my other videos they'll give you a good foundation for more advanced things later.

For the bolt around a circle use an array modifier.

@DanielGrovePhoto

4 жыл бұрын

That plus a rotated empty can make the circular array, you're right. I think I'll do a modifiers video sometime soon.

@LordoftheFleas

4 жыл бұрын

@@DanielGrovePhoto for added bonus, use a driver to link the array count in the modifier to the rotation of the empty.

@stichtingyimak9695

4 жыл бұрын

Just what i was gonna say my man XD

@BobSmith-pn5mo

4 жыл бұрын

An array would work, but I think the linked duplicate (instance) is more efficient on memory and performance. Also once you create and rotate the first instance (alt-d rz-60) you can quickly create more instances by using shift-r to repeat the last task. much faster.

@Tignite91

4 жыл бұрын

You could as well use Shift+R to repeat the duplication+rotation (:

Very helpful! Thank you!

@DanielGrovePhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

very nice and good. Thank you.

@DanielGrovePhoto

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Be sure to check out part 2! kzread.info/dash/bejne/YmlrvMqHpbGsZ8Y.html

Some helpful stuff thank you.

@DanielGrovePhoto

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! What would you like to see me cover next?

@snoke_iv5419

2 жыл бұрын

@@DanielGrovePhoto Booleans would be a good one I think...

@DanielGrovePhoto

2 жыл бұрын

@@snoke_iv5419 thanks!

Nice work

Great video and great instructions. Thank you. I have subscribed.

@DanielGrovePhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! What would you like to see more of on my channel?

Many useful tips in one video 👍 A great help for beginners and more experienced users too

@DanielGrovePhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much I try to appeal to both sides! Any suggestions for future videos?

@zeropointfusion7679

4 жыл бұрын

@@DanielGrovePhoto Well, I have a suggestion, if you've got a way to do it. I am currently working on a sci-fi ship, but am having a hard time making the hull look detailed. I feel like I could do better if I knew how to make my own hull textures, and apply them with UV wrapping, etc. However, most of the ways I'm seeing are either too complicated, or don't actually explain the full process.

@DanielGrovePhoto

3 жыл бұрын

Not sure if it will help but check out my recent video where I talk about hull and texturing. I didn't go super deep in to detail in that one (maybe a future video) but maybe it will help. kzread.info/dash/bejne/eaV2t9qBiKq6YJM.html

Best blender tutorial. Subscribed ❤️

@DanielGrovePhoto

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Be sure to check out part 2! kzread.info/dash/bejne/YmlrvMqHpbGsZ8Y.html

Thanks for the one with the pipe! I often tried to achieve that but always ended up with something ugly, for I may not have used the right technique. This one's really easy and works!

@DanielGrovePhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! That trick comes in handy a lot for all kinds of cylindrical shapes like hydraulics, lightsabers, pipes, and it works for other shapes too! Ridges can add a good level of fine detail when used in the right place. Don't forget to add a small amount of bevel though so that the edges are not impossibly sharp.

Now I will never have to suffer making pipes or arches lmao

@DanielGrovePhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear the video helped! Check out the others on hard surface and hallway modeling they have some cool tricks in them too.

@Thatsmahnut

4 жыл бұрын

If you want more organic pipes or tubes you can just use curves and use a thickness

@ChristinaMcKay

4 жыл бұрын

@@Thatsmahnut agree and that also works for the pipes he shows. And indeed it is much quicker, more flexible when it comes to the shape of the pipes (make them longer, add corners etc) and of course the profile. Not only can you use the curve geometry options but also other curves as profile, which you can change very easily. Pipes, ceiling molding, beams or picture frames, all made very easy and quick with curves.

It would be great to see all the small details to add-in and I just can't think of them all! Cutting out the panel was fantastic

@DanielGrovePhoto

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I will do more videos on this topic maybe a detailed panel / greeble one.

Nice tips man!

@DanielGrovePhoto

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! How did you find it?

Good work！Expect more tutorials

@DanielGrovePhoto

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! More on the way. How did you find me?

Awesome! Thank you.

@DanielGrovePhoto

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! What kind of videos would you like to see in the future?

Here's a bit of a shortcut for duplicating and rotating those bolts: After pressing Alt+D, you can instantly press R+Z+60 before hitting enter so it'll just snap into that position. Then you can press Shift+R and it'll just do that same operation again for as many times as you press Shift+R. (Note that Shift+R only copies the last operation you do, so if you did anything in between duplicating the bolt and pressing Shift+R, it won't work.) Edit: Also you can use the scroll wheel to increase or decrease the amount of loop cuts you want to add instead of the plus or minus keys

@DanielGrovePhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Yes thank you for that tip! I hadn't tried those two commands as one without enter in the middle. And I use a trackpad / stylus so no scroll wheel for me!

Handy,fun info.

@DanielGrovePhoto

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Be sure to check out part 2! kzread.info/dash/bejne/YmlrvMqHpbGsZ8Y.html

I didn't know about first technic with spin tool! Thanks!

@DanielGrovePhoto

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Be sure to check out part 2! kzread.info/dash/bejne/YmlrvMqHpbGsZ8Y.html

Great tips.. Thank you... 👍

@DanielGrovePhoto

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

This is very awesome video. You earned my subscription 👌

@DanielGrovePhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Thanks. One pedantic thing on Tip 1: You need to drag the spin centre away from the cylinder a bit. You would never get a pipe bend with zero internal diameter in real life.

@DanielGrovePhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Oh thank you! I appreciate details like that and didn't know.

You sir just told me everythin i needed to know since i want to model a sci fi gun but the different faces and edges are showing and i needed some parts smooth and some parts sharp. Thank you very much

So your a photographer filmographer who uses blender to create the fantasy of your client! Cool!

@DanielGrovePhoto

4 жыл бұрын

That's me! I've made props, backgrounds, ships, and vfx using Blender to use in my photographs and it's so much fun! Sometimes clients present a concept to me and I have to go find out a way to make it happen. Check out my creative work at Danielgrovephoto.com/category/creative

Shift - R is a super handy shortcut to repeat an action or series of actions. So copying the bolts around the base of your pipe would be- (Alt-D, R, Z, 60, enter. Shift-R x 4)

@DanielGrovePhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Ya I use to think I had to do enter after shift D and so that rendered shift R useless. But I was wrong! Thanks for this tip though it's great.

Great video! For the loopcuts you can press escape or right click to cancel the mouse movement after the first enter

@DanielGrovePhoto

4 жыл бұрын

I just press it a second time as my finger was already there for the first press but ya those work too!

Can use shift + r to repeat the action for the bolt thing :)

@eliascgi

4 жыл бұрын

I think about that too))

@aleks_ivanov

4 жыл бұрын

also you don't have to press Enter after Alt+D - you can press R+the desired degree and then Enter

@DanielGrovePhoto

3 жыл бұрын

Yes thanks! Learn something new every day/video.

@r6scrubs126

3 жыл бұрын

I did this by just using the array modifier and using the "offset object" option to make it use an empty object at the 3D cursor as the central point

@znefas

3 жыл бұрын

@@r6scrubs126 yeah was thinking the same, it's just easier to use an empty

If you are looking to make a car air filter, I made one on accident yesterday messing with the spin tool. All you do is spin a cube a bunch of times and it will make a cylinder with the edges of the cubes being the outside face.

@DanielGrovePhoto

3 жыл бұрын

That is a good way to make that shape! I'd prefer though to make a cylinder with maybe 64-120 vertices, select all the outward facing faces, do an individual inset on all faces at once, and then extrude inward and bevel those new edges. May need a top and bottom cap shape to complete it.

Great paced learning highly enjoyable cheers new sub for sure

@DanielGrovePhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! How did you find me and what would you like to see more of?

@criddycriddy

4 жыл бұрын

@@DanielGrovePhoto I am a photographer, musician, 3d modeler (all for hobbies not work) and searched for 'blender photography hard surface' and your thumbnail stood out so I watched, I was a technology teacher myself until redundancy came along and found your production and teaching style top notch, you can certainly go far on this here platform I think. I would like to see more hard surface stuff if possible and also Animation if you are into that side of things. By the way an absolutely amazing new plugin I found yesterday is the 'Cad style precision movement' kzread.info/dash/bejne/qJyhwcRmibnKe5c.html - precision snapping at last, It has changed my whole creation method, its a free or donation plug in at the moment, thanks again pal ... cheers

Very well done. I subscribed for more

@DanielGrovePhoto

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Be sure to check out part 2! kzread.info/dash/bejne/YmlrvMqHpbGsZ8Y.html

Great tips and I've bookmarked and liked this. Other comments echo mine such as rotating that bolt around an empty+array mod, also at the first pipe I thought why not use a mirror mod on that, but you got to it on the next tip.

@DanielGrovePhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

NICE!

@DanielGrovePhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! How did you find my channel?

great video thank you very much! :)

@DanielGrovePhoto

4 жыл бұрын

You are welcome! Many more to come.

@DanielGrovePhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Any suggestions for future topics?

Auto Smooth is a killer feature. I wish I had known before. I would save a ton of time. (Subsurf, crease, supports etc.)

thank you need these kind of tutorials! week 2 in blender :)

@DanielGrovePhoto

3 жыл бұрын

Great to hear! That's exciting. Check out my other videos like intro to Blender 2.8 and how to make a lightsaber. Great for beginners. Any questions just ask.

@spencershade5070

3 жыл бұрын

@@DanielGrovePhoto will do ty

Thx man

Great!

@DanielGrovePhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! How did you find my video?

Last one is saver... I had hard time turning motorcycle handle with entire front subassembly to be rotated along with handlebar 😄🙌 thanks

@DanielGrovePhoto

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped!

The thumbnail scared me into thinking this was going to be super advanced but these are real useful tips for me, thanks.

@DanielGrovePhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Oops! Just eye candy but I did use all of these techniques on those models.

Thanks!!!

❤❤❤ nice

thank you sir. very helpful a lot. its help me for my project.. you deserve my thumbup :) and follow you:)

@DanielGrovePhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear that it helped that's what I love to hear. Any suggestions for future topics?

thank you, Sir, this video tells me that my whole life was such a primitive.

@DanielGrovePhoto

3 жыл бұрын

Haha yep.

Great job on this video! Just at the moment where I thought Blender couldn't offer more shortcuts to certain functions. This was really well done. Perhaps in the future, I suggest turning on Screencast Keys. This just shows what keys you're clicking at the moment. Otherwise, great video!

@DanielGrovePhoto

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much and thanks for the suggestion I tried to get it some time back but couldn't find it as an add on! I need to look again.

6:29 It might help to give a bit more control by using shift+z (or whichever axis you are using) to not scale that axis as you would still be scaling that axis even if you choose individual origins.

@DanielGrovePhoto

3 жыл бұрын

I did not know that thanks! I had always wondered if there was such a command. Thanks.

With the bolt you can alt+d and rotate it into place then press shift + R to repeat the action as many times as you want!

@rollon1181

4 жыл бұрын

You saved me some typing

@thesteaksaignant

3 жыл бұрын

@@rollon1181 also : the array modifier can be helpful when you have 180 bolts instead of 6

Checkered deselect is also useful for gears.

@DanielGrovePhoto

4 жыл бұрын

I did that once by accident lol. How is it done?

13:41 take a look at the screw modifier

I want to share tip too..tip from me: use empty (for mirror, array (include circular) etc etc...). Make it a parent. So we can move it..scale it etc etc..the children will follow. Non destructive. Empty is powerful feature. Love all your videos. Thank you. Cheers!

@DanielGrovePhoto

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yea that's a great trick for abstract stuff and fun animations. I'll make a modifier video soon and be sure to include that.

Oh wow, I wish I knew that first trick when I spent 2 hours making a drain pipe for a house back in Des... :)

@DanielGrovePhoto

2 жыл бұрын

Now there's a number of free geometry node pipe makers that make the process even better! You can also use bezier curves too.

@thomandy

2 жыл бұрын

@@DanielGrovePhoto I see. I havent jumped on geo nodes yet, just starting to understand the basics of shaders. Ill look into it, thanks.

@DanielGrovePhoto

2 жыл бұрын

@@thomandy I don't plan on actually learning geonodes. They are very complex and a whole new language. I've finally wrapped my head around texture nodes and starting to get vector/math nodes. I just don't have the time to invest in geonodes unfortunately with all that I do professionally. But thankfully many generous creators have made setups that are easy to use and play with. I suggest looking on github for the free ones.

@thomandy

2 жыл бұрын

@@DanielGrovePhoto Ah, nice, Ill look into it. Yeah, blender for sure has a huge and generous community!:)

Great

The smooth trick, the amount of time this would have saved if i'd known

@DanielGrovePhoto

3 жыл бұрын

Right!? It's a real power saver depending on how close you are to object you can get away with a lot of lower poly shapes.

8:50 - Extruding is one cool thing you can do at this point, but I sometimes will scale out those inset faces instead of extruding, which will give them a tapered look. All personal preference, of course.

I thumbed up for your nice "voilà" at 03:15

@DanielGrovePhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Haha that's about the extent of my French.

another method to making pipes is using curves, that way making 90 degree turns are easier, then just add geometry, convert to mesh and start extruding bits

Great video, thank you for sharing. Needs more moths though. They add realism to everything... ;)

@DanielGrovePhoto

2 жыл бұрын

haha. SPACE MOTHS!

thanks

thank you.

@DanielGrovePhoto

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! How did you find my channel and what would you like to see more of?

In order to use the mirror modifier you could use the "automirror" add on (comes with blender). Activate it, and in edit mode press N to get the menu. Click on "edit" and automirror. It will split the geometry for you, adds a mirror modifier and activates clipping. Next up: for the rings around your cylinder use "extrude around normals": select the faces and press alt-E. Then extrude along normals. Saves you time there.

@DanielGrovePhoto

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome trick thank you! I've often thought "why do I have to do these steps myself over and over? I wish there were an addon!"

That was fun! But I have a question, whenever I extrude, right click to cancel and scale (like inset) then extrude, my bevel modifier when added does not work.

@anophyte

4 жыл бұрын

Try disabling clamp overlap in modifier settings (though it may cause artifacts) and be sure to apply scale in object mode

THX

@DanielGrovePhoto

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Be sure to check out part 2! kzread.info/dash/bejne/YmlrvMqHpbGsZ8Y.html

13:34 alt+D but don't press enter immediately, press r and then z immediately instead then press enter, press Shift+R to re do the alt+d and rotation thing, u can spam shift R

@DanielGrovePhoto

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for clarifying that, I learn it after the video. Ooops!

> 3650 faces >" low poly" :)))))) great video man I learned so many useful stuff... was just about to look up how to pipes.

@DanielGrovePhoto

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Be sure to check out part 2! kzread.info/dash/bejne/YmlrvMqHpbGsZ8Y.html