Video Tutorial: Pimp your Blender (Learn How to Customize Blender's Interface)

In this video tutorial, we'll take a look at how easy it is to customize the look and feel of Blender's interface.



We'll be covering:

• How to Not Screw Up your Default Settings
• Customizing your Colors
• Customizing your Icons
• Customizing your Font
• Customizing other Interface Details
• Customizing the OpenGL Lighting
• Your Default Settings File
• Customizing your 3D Editing Cursor
• Exporting your Custom Theme
• Customizing your Blender Screens

Additional Resources:

• BlenderWiki - User Preferences
• Graphicall's Theme Repository
• Tango Icon Theme
• Icon Theme created by Jendrzych
• Blender's UI icon design discussion

Note: Here's another great pimptastic feature in Blender, noted by Lucidor/Rodicul. It's the Smooth View option:

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Video: The Power of Blender Screens

Blender's interface offers great flexibility to its users. You can create just about any layout you need to get the job done. However, sometimes it gets tiresome setting up the same layout over and over for commonly performed tasks. You create the layout, do the work, tear it down to get back to where you were before and, sooner or later, you're recreating that same layout again.

Well, Blender's Screens functionality is the cure for Repetitive Layout Creation Syndrome (RLCS).

• Download the video here.

Download Format: ZIP file
Download Size: 32.9 MB
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Video Format: xVid w/Audio
Video Filesize: 125 MB
Length: 11 min. 18 sec.
Resolution 800x600
SubTitles: No (will produce if enough requests are made)

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