This is the screen we will be presented with every time Blender starts. When clicking outside the splash screen a second slash screen will appear. We can change the theme if we want or lad in settings from 2.79 if we have used previous version. The default of “Play” which is playing animation is not useful in as many circumstances as the search. We will stick with left select but change the spacebar to search. Here we can change the selection method and spacebar hotkey.

When starting Blender, we will be presented with a splash screen only viewable the first time we start Blender.

Browse to the folder and locate the “blender.exe” file and start it.Right click on the zip-file and chose “extract all…”.Most likely you will need the 64-bit version.įrom here, I will assume that you are using Windows. Select your operating system and download the corresponding 2.80 beta file. Then hit “Try Blender 2.80 beta” to get to the correct downloads. Go to the website and click “Download blender 2.79b” It may say 2.80 or later if you are reading this when 2.80 has come out of beta stage. So, skip 2.79 at this point and go straight for 2.8 to avoid relearning later. It is currently in beta, but it is very different from the stable version, and it is also the way forward. Right now, we will start with Blender 2.8. In this basic introductory series, we won’t use a graphics tablet, but we will assume a 3-button mouse. The graphics tablet in this case will be used for drawing or sculpting in most cases. Keep in mind that a 3-button mouse is recommended and for an optimal experience a graphics tablet is good to have.

Dual OpenGL 3.3 compatible graphics cards with 4 GB RAM.

OpenGL 3.3 compatible graphics with 2 GB RAM.

OpenGL 3.3 compatible graphics with 512 MB RAM.

32-bit dual core 2Ghz CPU with SSE2 support.

These are the system requirements for Blender 2.8 according to

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