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

that the windows and palettes are set up

in blender so we can be comfortable setting up our workspace

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

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

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

this lets you know that you can resize these areas

click with your left mouse button to shrink or expand

the plus symbols expand the palettes

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

(there is no "minus" icon)

anytime you close down an area all the way

you'll get the plus icon

another thing to notice

every window viewport area has a dropdown

associated with it

it determines what type of editor shows up

there are a few around if you look for them

the refer to

the window associated with this editor type

remember though, that sometimes they refer to the area below

as when you're dealing with properties

and sometimes they refer to the area above

if you're dealing with a 3D workspace

the dropdown is below the window

same is true for timeline

the editor type dropdown is below

but on properties, it's above

every window will have a dropdown type selector

and you can change that

but remember

it might be on the top or the bottom

a quick way to figure out how many windows you have

is to count the number of dropdowns on your screen

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

the number of divisions you've divided your space into

a tricky on is the one on the top

this is the information (i icon)

gives you information about your entire file

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

except the options in the border area

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

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

python code that's being run while you do stuff

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

and then it provides a ...

menu across the top that you're used to

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

or quit the application

one thing you might want to do when you first

start out working with blender

is make sure your mouse is working correctlly

so if you do not have a three button mouse

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

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

emulate 3 button mouse

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

to emulate that third button

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

to the next video