If your lights cast shadows setting them up correctly will speed up your render times. 1. Try not to cast shadows using omni lights; they are equivalent to placing 6 spotlights with a 90 degree field of view. 2. If youre rendering a scene with a lot of lights dont try and set them up all at once. Use Tools>Light Lister…
I read a lot in forums, people asking about things that are very easily done and they are either looking in the wrong direction or they are hidden so deep that you can't just spot them out easily. On top of that.. not many really mention them in tutorials! These will be very useful especially for people who start getting…
Again, I've pulled these from various places and find them useful. All credit goes to OPs. Right click on the snap icon for settings dialog, right click on any transform icon for the transform-type-in dialog, right click of any of the time-modifying icons (e.g. Play) for settings. Projecting a spline onto a mesh: Create a…
I've been collecting these for a few years now. Many came from a similar CG Society thread. I've edited some, left some as found, and hope I'm not repeating too many. When saving a file pressing the + sign will add a number increment next to it (e.g. normal.max will be normal01.max). Press the "i" key to re-center the view…
Well you just press R to cycle between the scale modes. Not sure if you can disable it, but when I see that my scale didn't react the way I wanted it to, I just press R until I get the scale option I want. There are 3 different scale types.