Manual
Quick Overview:
Quickstart - A quickstart guide for beginners
Manual content:
Last updated 11.05.2018 - Update to Bforartists 1.0.0 - Just the history file changed.
Installing
Interface
Editors
Data System
Modeling
Painting & Sculpting
Rigging
Animation
Physics
Rendering
Blender Render engine
Cycles Render engine
Freestyle
Open GL
Compositing
User Preferences
Advanced
Troubleshooting
Glossary
About this Manual
Pipeline
Game Engine
Bforartists History
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Single complete PDF file of the Bforartists Manual
Bforartists Manual as editable odt format
Reference Manual:
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1 - Installing Bforartists.pdf - 95 Kb
2 Interface.pdf - 1.64 Mb
2.1 Bforartists Standard Keymap.pdf - 300 Kb
2.2 Layouts.pdf - 1.09 Mb
2.3 Grease Pencil - 718 Kb
3.0 Editors.pdf - 0.97 Mb
3.1 Editors - 3D View.pdf - 3.6 Mb
3.1.1 - 3D View by tools - Tool Shelf.pdf - 11 Mb
3.1.2 - 3D View by tools - Header.pdf - 6.16 Mb
3.1.3 - 3D View by tools - Properties Sidebar - 1.06 Mb
3.2 Editors - Animation.pdf - 912 Kb
3.3 Editors - UV-Image Editor.pdf - 2.1 Mb
3.4 Editors - Video Sequence Editor.pdf - 1.5 Mb
3.5 Editors - Movie Clip Editor.pdf - 800 Kb
3.6 Editors - Text Editor.pdf - 65 Kb
3.7 Editors - Node Editor.pdf - 500 Kb
3.8 Editors - Properties Editor.pdf - 100 Kb
3.9 Editors - Outliner.pdf - 190 Kb
3.10 Editors - Info Editor.pdf - 70 kb
3.11 Editors - File browser.pdf - 70 kb
3.12 Editors - Python Console.pdf - 350 kb
3.13 Editors - User Preferences.pdf - 827 kb
3.14 Editors - Toolbar Editor.pdf - 813 kb
4 Data System.pdf - 333 kb
5.1 Modeling - Meshes.pdf - 6.9 Mb
5.2 Modeling - Curves.pdf - 630 kb
5.3 Modeling - Surfaces.pdf - 410 kb
5.4 Modeling - Text.pdf - 530 kb
5.5 Modeling - Metas.pdf - 430 kb
5.6 Modeling - Empties.pdf - 110 kb
5.7 Modeling - Modifiers.pdf - 5.9 Mb
6 Painting and Sculpting.pdf - 1 Mb
7.1 Rigging - Constraints.pdf - 1.25 Mb
7.2 Rigging - Armatures.pdf - 2.15 Mb
8 Animation.pdf - 1.75 Mb
9.1 Physics - Introduction.pdf - 125 Kb
9.2 Physics - Cloth Simulations.pdf - 360 Kb
9.3 Physics - Dynamic Paint.pdf - 263 Kb
9.4 Physics - Fluid Simulation.pdf - 440 Kb
9.5 Physics - Particles.pdf - 745 Kb
9.6 Physics - Smoke Simulation.pdf - 460 Kb
9.7 Physics - Soft Body.pdf - 490 Kb
9.8 Physics - Rigid Body.pdf - 357 Kb
9.9 Physics - Force Fields.pdf - 230 Kb
9.10 Physics - Baking Physics Simulations.pdf - 76 Kb
10.1.1 Render - General.pdf - 1.45 Mb
10.1.2 Render - Camera.pdf - 500Kb
10.2.1 Render - Blender Render Engine - Materials.pdf - 3.38 Mb
10.2.2 Render - Blender Render Engine - Textures.pdf - 1.63 Mb
10.2.3 Render - Blender Render Engine - Lighting.pdf - 2.29 Mb
10.2.4 Render - Blender Render Engine - World.pdf - 232 Kb
10.2.5 Render - Blender Render Engine - Render Layers.pdf - 46 Kb
10.2.6 Render - Blender Render Engine - Render Passes.pdf - 360 Kb
10.2.7 Render - Blender Render Engine - Motion Blur.pdf - 125 Kb
10.2.8 Render - Blender Render Engine - Anti-Aliasing.pdf - 432 Kb
10.2.9 Render - Blender Render Engine - Edge (Toon) Rendering.pdf - 230 Kb
10.2.10 Render - Blender Render Engine - Render Quality.pdf - 44 Kb
10.2.11 Render - Blender Render Engine - Performance Consideration.pdf - 61 Kb
10.3.1 Render - Cycles Render Engine - Introduction.pdf - 123 Kb
10.3.3 Render - Cycles Render Engine - Lamps.pdf
10.3.4 Render - Cycles Render Engine - Nodes.pdf - 629 Kb
10.3.5 Render - Cycles Render Engine - World.pdf - 260 Kb
10.3.6 Render - Cycles Render Engine - Camera.pdf - 216 Kb
10.3.7 Render - Cycles Render Engine - Render Features.pdf - 55 Kb
10.3.8 Render - Cycles Render Engine - Cycles Settings.pdf - 988 Kb
10.3.9 Render - Cycles Render Engine - GPU Rendering.pdf - 69 Kb
10.3.10 Render - Cycles Render Engine - Render Baking.pdf - 80 Kb
10.3.11 Render - Cycles Render Engine - Optimizing Rendering.pdf - 1.16 Mb
10.4 Render - Render Output.pdf - 165 Kb
10.5 Render - Post Processing.pdf - 200 Kb
10.6 Render - Freestyle.pdf - 2.89 Mb
10.7 Render - Workflows.pdf - 1.2 Mb
10.8 Render - OpenGL Render.pdf - 115 Kb
10.9 Render - Audio Rendering.pdf - 107 Kb
11 Compositing.pdf - 3.89 Mb
12 User Preferences.pdf - 843 Kb
13.1 Advanced - Command Line.pdf - 84 Kb
13.2 Advanced - Scripting & Extending Bforartists.pdf - 236 Kb
13.3 Advanced - Application Templates.pdf - 299 Kb
13.4 Advanced - Working Limits.pdf - 46 Kb
15 Troubleshooting.pdf - 151 Kb
16 Glossary.pdf - 103 Kb
17 About this Manual.pdf - 38 Kb
18 Pipeline.pdf - 129 Kb
19 Game Engine.pdf - 92 Kb
20 Bforartists History.pdf - 92 K
Single complete PDF file of the Bforartists Manual
Bforartists_100_Manual .pdf - 104 Mb, 2545 pages
This is the complete Bforartists manual as a single PDF file for offline useage. It contains all the chapters from above.
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To read it online is possible. But has a high loading time since it is pretty big. So you better download it once, and read it offline.
Bforartists Manual as editable odt format
The manual in editable odt format can be found at github: https://github.com/Bforartists/Manual
This is the whole manual in *.odt format. odt is the file format for Libre Office or Open Office. So when you want to edit the manual then you need one of those two open source office programs.
If you find a typo or want to help the project and extend the manual, then please be so kind to download the file with the chapter, and modify the part for which you have improving changes. And then either make a commit to the Github repository. Or attach the modified chapter in a forum thread. So that we can add it to the manual.
Thank you very much!
Manual Update History:
Last updated 11.05.2018 - Update to Bforartists 1.0.0 - Just the history pdf changed.
Last updated 04.05.2018 - Update to Bforartists 1.0.0 RC1
Files modified:
2 Interface
3.1.1 - 3D View by tools - Tool Shelf
3.1.2 - 3D View by tools - Header
3.1.3 - 3D View by tools - Properties Sidebar
3.14 Editors - Toolbar Editor
3.3 Editors - UV-Image Editor
20 Bforartists History
23.04.2018 - Update to Bforartists 0.9.7
Files modified:
2.1 Bforartists Standard Keymap.odt
2.2 Layouts.odt
3.1.1 - 3D View by tools - Tool Shelf.odt
3.1.2 - 3D View by tools - Header.odt
3.1.3 - 3D View by tools - Properties Sidebar.odt
3.14 Editors - Toolbar Editor.odt
3.3 Editors - UV-Image Editor.odt
20 Bforartists History.odt
03.03.2018 - Update to Bforartists 0.9.6
Files added:
3.1.2 - 3D View by tools - Header.pdf
Bforartists_096_Manual.pdf
Files removed:
Bforartists_095_Manual.pdf
Files modified:
2.1 Bforartists Standard Keymap.pdf
3.1.1 - 3D View by tools - Tool Shelf.pdf
3.1.3 - 3D View by tools - Properties Sidebar.pdf
3.5 Editors - Movie Clip Editor.pdf
3.6 Editors - Text Editor.pdf
3.9 Editors - Outliner.pdf
3.14 Editors - Toolbar Editor.pdf
20 Bforartists History.pdf
05.12.2017 - Chapter 5.1 Modeling Meshes - Removed the hotkey hint for Inset, and changed the menu location hint.
11.11.2017 - Added new chapter 3.1.2 - 3D View by tools - Properties Sidebar, fixed small issue in 3.0 Editors
13.10.2017 - Fixed menu location for normals in chapter 5.1 Modeling - Meshes.pdf
10.10.2017 - Removed hotkey hints for render border in chapter 10.1.1 Render - General. We don't have hotkeys for it.
18.09.2017 - added the missing chapter Skin modifier in the pdf 5.7 Modeling - Modifiers.pdf, updated the Bforartists_094_Manual.pdf download
15.09.2017 - The update to Bforartist 0.9.4 brings quite a few changes. The structure has changed.
Files added:
10.3.3 Render - Cycles Render Engine - Lamps.pdf
10.3.7 Render - Cycles Render Engine - Render Features.pdf
10.3.8 Render - Cycles Render Engine - Cycles Settings.pdf
10.3.9 Render - Cycles Render Engine - GPU Rendering.pdf
10.3.10 Render - Cycles Render Engine - Render Baking.pdf
10.3.11 Render - Cycles Render Engine - Optimizing Rendering.pdf
10.4 Render - Render Output.pdf
10.5 Render - Post Processing.pdf
10.6 Render - Freestyle.pdf
10.7 Render - Workflows.pdf
10.8 Render - OpenGL Render.pdf
10.9 Render - Audio Rendering.pdf
13.1 Advanced - Command Line.pdf
13.2 Advanced - Scripting & Extending Bforartists.pdf
13.3 Advanced - Application Templates.pdf
13.4 Advanced - Working Limits.pdf
Files deleted:
10.3.2 Render - Cycles Render Engine - Render Settings.pdf
10.3.6 Render - Cycles Render Engine - Lamp.pdf
10.3.7 Render - Cycles Render Engine - Camera.pdf
10.3.9 Render - Cycles Render Engine - Features.pdf
10.3.10 Render - Cycles Render Engine - GPU Rendering.pdf
10.3.11 Render - Cycles Render Engine - Open Shading Language OSL.pdf
10.4 Render - Freestyle.pdf
10.5 Render - OpenGL Render.pdf
13 Scripting & Extending Bforartists.pdf
14 Command Line Arguments.pdf
Files modified:
2 Interface.pdf
2.1 Bforartists Standard Keymap.pdf
2.2 Layouts.pdf
3.1.1 - 3D View by tools - Tool Shelf.pdf
3.14 Editors - Toolbar Editor.pdf
10.3.2 Render - Cycles Render Engine - Materials.pdf
10.3.4 Render - Cycles Render Engine - World.pdf
10.3.5 Render - Cycles Render Engine - Nodes.pdf
10.3.6 Render - Cycles Render Engine - Camera.pdf
10.3.11 Render - Cycles Render Engine - Optimizing Rendering.pdf
13.2 Advanced - Scripting & Extending Bforartists.pdf
18 pipeline.pdf
20 Bforartists history
20.7.2017 - Fixed the chapter 2.2 Layouts. It contained images with the old blue layout
30.06.2017. Modified the chapter 3.1.1 - 3D View by tools - Tool Shelf.pdf. Deleted the chapter 10.3.12 Render - Cycles Render Engine - Render Baking.pdf as obsolete. This informations are now in the chapter 3.1.1 - 3D View by tools - Tool Shelf
11.06.2017. Modified the chapter 3.1.1 - 3D View by tools - Tool Shelf.pdf
03.05.2017. Added the new chapter 3.1.1 - 3D View by tools - Tool Shelf.pdf
Licensing:
The Bforartists manual is in parts under Public Domain license and in parts under OCL License. Please read the Open Content license text in case you want to modify the files that are under OCL license. https://www.bforartists.de/wiki/open-content-license
The current Bforartists manual is partially based at the Blender 2.76 manual. The OCL license requires crediting the involved persons. Which is impossible since Blender did not do that. So i have to break the license here too. But Blender has a page where at least some of the currently active manual writers are listed: https://developer.blender.org/project/profile/53/
You want to get involved?
Have a look at the "Get Involved"-Page here: https://www.bforartists.de/node/3
See also here: https://www.bforartists.de/content/developer-faq