Cheatsheet

Regrouping some technical stuff learned about blender.

Sculting

Checking normals

See this doc: checking_normals.md

Quick Applying all modifiers

Before applying any modifier, make a backup of your blender file in case you need to rollback to a file with modifiers to customize.

Decreasing the subdivides before merging:

• shift a (select all)
• Shift click to a mesh w/ modifiers
• decrease as much as you can the Subdivide
• Right click on the meshes > Convert to > Mesh
  • this will apply all modifiers in one step !

You can do this before after before rigging for example

Fixing bad normals orientation

Source: here

The fix:

Display the normals to check any errors:

• Viewport Overlays
• Check Face Orientation Then:
• tab in edit mode
• select all (or specific faulty zones)
• Shift + N: recalculate normals
  • or in the menu: Mesh > Normals > Recalculate Outside > Recalculate Normals

Some pictures

The bad boy

You can see the faulty normals

And now its fixed