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

If you need to subdivide later, you just can add a new subdivide modifier later :P Video: here

Joining all:

• Select all (a)
• Shift click on the host mesh that will regroup all
• Ctrl J (join)

Video: here

Now you can start rigging !

Rigging

Create armature

• Shift+a > Add armature
• tab in edit mode, extrude (e) from extremities, duplicate (shift d) if you need

Parenting bones in armature

• after duplicating for example
• select both of the bones, parent and child
• shift select the parent bone
• ctrl p (parent) > Keep offset

Video: here

Batch Renaming with suffix

• Ctrl f2 > (dropdown object) Bones, Set Names, Suffix
• for right, use .R for example

Video: here

Parenting armature to meshes

• select all meshes AND the armature
• shift click on the armature
• ctrl + p (parent)

Posing

Video covering this: here

Going to weight paint mode

• in object mode, select the armature
• shift select the object to weight paint
• ctrl+tab > Weight paint
  • or in the mode dropdown, select weight paint

Checkin the weight paint per bone

from the weight paint mode:

• make sure that you are in the “bone” selection mode (not vertex or face)
• alt click on the bone you want to check its weight paint

Tips

• Use Auto normalize option to make sure that bones weights dont overall with each other