Blender Wiki PDF Manual – january 2014

I’ve just uploaded a new version of the Blender Wiki PDF Manual on archive.org, updated yesterday.

How this PDF differs from the previous one? See below to discover…

Changes to wiki pages structure:

  • Animation section pages structure was quite changed and restructured:
    • before it was made of these pages:
      • Animation
        Animation/Timeline
        Animation/Markers
        Animation/3D_View
        Animation/Keyframes
        Animation/Keyframes/Visualization
        Animation/Keyframes/Editing
        Animation/Keyframes/Keying_Sets
        Animation/Editors
        Animation/Editors/Graph
        Animation/Editors/Graph/FCurves
        Animation/Editors/Graph/FCurves/Types
        Animation/Editors/Graph/FCurves/Window
        Animation/Editors/Graph/FCurves/Editing
        Animation/Editors/Graph/FCurves/Editing/Keyframes
        Animation/Editors/Graph/Drivers
        Animation/Editors/Graph/Drivers/Editing
        Animation/Editors/DopeSheet
        Animation/Editors/DopeSheet/Concepts
        Animation/Editors/DopeSheet/Selecting
        Animation/Editors/DopeSheet/Editing
        Animation/Editors/DopeSheet/DopeSheet
        Animation/Editors/DopeSheet/Action
        Animation/Editors/DopeSheet/ShapeKey
        Animation/Editors/DopeSheet/GreasePencil
        Animation/Editors/NLA
        Animation/Editors/NLA/Editing
        Animation/Editors/FModifiers
        Animation/Techs
        Animation/Techs/Object
        Animation/Techs/Object/Constraint
        Animation/Techs/Object/Path
        Animation/Techs/Shape
        Animation/Techs/Shape/Shape_Keys
        Animation/Techs/Shape/Shape_Keys/Editing
        Animation/Techs/Shape/Shape_Keys/Animating
        Animation/Techs/Shape/Shape_Keys/Examples
        Animation/Techs/Shape/Indirect_Animation
        Animation/Techs/Armatures
        Animation/Techs/Armatures/Mocap
    • while now it’s like
      • Animation
        Animation/Basics/Actions
        Animation/Basics/Drivers
        Animation/Basics/Keying_Sets
        Animation/Basics/Markers
        Animation/Basics/Motion_Paths
        Animation/Editors/Timeline
        Animation/Editors/Graph
        Animation/Editors/Graph/FCurves
        Animation/Editors/Graph/FModifiers
        Animation/Editors/Graph/Editing
        Animation/Editors/DopeSheet
        Animation/Editors/DopeSheet/DopeSheet
        Animation/Editors/DopeSheet/Action
        Animation/Editors/DopeSheet/ShapeKey
        Animation/Editors/DopeSheet/GreasePencil
        Animation/Editors/NLA
        Animation/Techs
        Animation/Techs/Object
        Animation/Techs/Object/Constraint
        Animation/Techs/Object/Path
        Animation/Techs/Shape
        Animation/Techs/Shape/Shape_Keys
        Animation/Techs/Shape/Shape_Keys/Editing
        Animation/Techs/Shape/Shape_Keys/Animating
        Animation/Techs/Shape/Shape_Keys/Examples
        Animation/Techs/Shape/Indirect_Animation
        Animation/Techs/Armatures
        Animation/Techs/Armatures/Mocap
        Animation/Techs/Lamp
        Animation/Techs/Camera
        Animation/Techs/Material

Changes to wiki manual (content):

  • Here and there a few adjustment to blender.org’s website pages, since the site was completely revamped, and links changed
  • Section “Version/Revision Milestones”: this section content was stuck to 2.66a, now it’s up to date with latest 2.69.
  • Section “Working with layesr”: added note to select or deselect all Scene Layer buttons at once.
  • Section “Modeling/Objects”:
    • changed image and caption about 3D view object mode layout
    • added description for Lattice, Speaker objects
    • changed description for Object Centers
    • removed description under Moving Object Centers for “3D Cursor Location” and “Median Point of Geometry”
    • added descriptions under Moving Object Centers for “Origin to Center of Mass”
    • changed description under “Join Objects”
  • Section “Modeling/Selection”
    • changed description for Selection/Introduction
    • added note under Rectangular or Border Select about deselecting
    • added Circle Select section
    • added note about selecting objects with same keying set, lamp, pass.
    • changed note about selecting by type
    • added note about Match option in Tool Shelf → Select by Layer
    • added/moved sections for Select Pattern, Select Camera, Mirror menu options
  • Section “Modeling/Editing objects”
    • added/expanded several sections under “Creation and deletion” and “Transformation tools”
    • changed section “Select Grouped”
  • Section “Constraints”
    • added small note about Pivot contraint in introduction
  • Section “Animation”: this section was heavily restructured both in content and pages structure. (see http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-docboard/2013-November/004343.html and following threads)
  • Section “Render/Cycles/Materials/Volume”: added/changed section “volume rendering”
  • Section “Render/Cycles/Nodes/Shaders”:  removed note about “normal input” under “subsurface scattering”
  • Section “Render/Cycles/Nodes/OSL”: added notes about BSDF closures hair_reflection, hair_transmission, BSSDRF bssrdf_gaussian
  • Section “Render/Cycles/Integrator”: added Volume Render Settings notes
  • Section “Render/Cycles/Experimental_Features”: removed “Hair rendering”
  • Section “Game Engine/Logic/Actuators/Action”: under Action Actuator added small note about Property option.

As always you can download it from https://archive.org/details/BlenderWikiPDFManual, along with some less recent version.

That’s it for this release see you next month! happy new year!

Marco