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ok today in our first demo we're going to look into some of the ways

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that the windows and palettes are set up

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in blender so we can be comfortable setting up our workspace

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this is the default view when we first fire up the app

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you can see that there are already palettes on the right and left

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if you hover over divisions, your cursor changes to a line

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this lets you know that you can resize these areas

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click with your left mouse button to shrink or expand

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the plus symbols expand the palettes

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the way to hide the palettes is to hover over the division

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(there is no "minus" icon)

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anytime you close down an area all the way

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you'll get the plus icon

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another thing to notice

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every window viewport area has a dropdown

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associated with it

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it determines what type of editor shows up

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there are a few around if you look for them

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the refer to

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the window associated with this editor type

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remember though, that sometimes they refer to the area below

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as when you're dealing with properties

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and sometimes they refer to the area above

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if you're dealing with a 3D workspace

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the dropdown is below the window

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same is true for timeline

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the editor type dropdown is below

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but on properties, it's above

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every window will have a dropdown type selector

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and you can change that

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but remember

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it might be on the top or the bottom

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a quick way to figure out how many windows you have

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is to count the number of dropdowns on your screen

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here's one, two, three, count all to figure out

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the number of divisions you've divided your space into

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a tricky on is the one on the top

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this is the information (i icon)

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gives you information about your entire file

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when you change it, you don't see anything change

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except the options in the border area

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that's because actually that winow is closed up by default

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if you leave that top window expanded, it will show you

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python code that's being run while you do stuff

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you can just close it back up to return to normal (default)

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and then it provides a ...

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menu across the top that you're used to

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that let's you do things like save, open new document, etc.

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or quit the application

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one thing you might want to do when you first

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start out working with blender

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is make sure your mouse is working correctlly

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so if you do not have a three button mouse

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the way that you can setup blender to still work for you

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is to go to file, user preferences, input tab and turn on

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emulate 3 button mouse

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this will let you use the alt/option key on your keyboard

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to emulate that third button

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i'm gonna close this window back down so we can go

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to the next video