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
- Animation
- 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
- Animation
- before it was made of these pages:
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