Doc:2.5/Manual

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After a wide acceptance of Blender 2.5 we could COPY Doc:Manual (and all subpages) to Doc:2.4x/Manual and COPY Doc:2.5/Manual (and all subpages) in Doc:Manual (the manual becomes official). Like this, the counter of contacts of Doc:Manual doesn't drop to zero, remaining at 1.7 Millions+

2.4x Manual pages which are not relevant anymore can be MOVED instead of being copied, but let's do it after the 2.5 index will be stable
Later on we could move Doc:2.4x/Manual (and all subpages) in Attic:Doc/2.4x/Manual or leave it there, too

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[edit] Introduction

What is Blender?: Introduction; Blender's History; License; Blender's Community; About this Manual; What's change with Blender 2.5

Installing Blender: Introduction; Python; Installing on Windows; Installing on Linux; Installing on Mac; Installing on other Operating Systems; Configuring Blender

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[edit] Starting

The Interface

Keyboard and Mouse

Arranging frames

Screens (Workspace Layouts)

Buttons and Controls

Your First Animation: 1/2: A static Gingerbread Man; 2/2: Animating the Gingerbread Man

The Vital Functions: File operations; Quick render; Screenshots; Default scene; User Preferences; Undo and Redo; Help!

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[edit] Interaction in 3D

Navigation in 3D Space: Introduction; Using the 3D View; 3D View Options; Camera View; Layers; Local or Global View

Sketch in 3D Space: Introduction to Grease Pencil; Drawing sketches; Layers and Animation; Converting sketches to geometry

Manipulation in 3D Space: Introduction; Hotkeys; Manipulators; Manual/Gestures; Axis Locking; Pivot Points; Proportional Edit; Transform Orientations; Transform Properties

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[edit] Data System

Blender's Library and Data System

Working with Scenes

The Outliner Window

Appending and Linking

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[edit] Modelling

Objects

Selecting in Object Mode

Editing Objects

Groups and Parenting

Meshes: Meshes; Mesh Structures; Mesh Primitives; Mesh Smoothing; Selecting Meshes; Basic Mesh Tools; Advanced Mesh Tools; Edge and Face Tools; Snap to Mesh; Vertex Groups; Weight Paint; Subdivision Surfaces; Multi Resolution Mesh; SculptMode; Retopo

Curves: Curves; Editing Curves; Curves Deform; Curves Taper

Surfaces: Surfaces; Editing Surfaces; Surfaces Skinning

Text: Editing Text

Meta Objects: Meta Objects; Editing Meta Objects

Scripts: Modelling Scripts

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[edit] Modifiers and Deformation

Modifiers Stack

Deform: Armature; Cast; Curve; Lattice; Mesh Deform; Wave

Objects: Array; Particle Instance

Animation: Build

Mesh: Bevel; Booleans; Decimate; Displace; EdgeSplit; Explode; Hooks; Mask; Mirror; Smooth; Subsurf

Textures: UVProject

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[edit] Lighting

Lights: Introduction; Light Properties; Light Attenuation; Light Textures; What Light Affects; Lights In Other Contexts

Shadows: Introduction; Shadow Properties; Raytraced Shadow Properties

Volumetric Lights: Introduction

Lamps

Raytraced Shadows

Raytraced Shadows

Buffered Shadows

Raytraced Shadows

Raytraced Shadows

Sky & Atmosphere

Radiosity

Scene Light: Ambient Light; Ambient Occlusion; Exposure

Introduction to Shading

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[edit] Materials

Usage: Assigning a material; Material Preview; Material Options; Multiple Materials

Properties: Diffuse Shaders; Specular Shaders; Ambient Light Effect; Color Ramps; Raytraced Reflections; Raytraced Transparency; Subsurface Scattering (SSS); Strands

Node Materials: Node Materials; Material Nodes Editor; Nodes usage; Material Node Types

Vertex Paint: Using Vertex Paint

Halos: Halos

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[edit] Textures

Options: Texture Options; Texture Channels; Map Input; Map To

Texture maps: Bump and Normal Maps; Displacement Maps

Texture Types: Procedural Textures; Image Textures; Video Textures; Environment Maps; Texture nodes; Texture Plugins

UV Textures

UV Unwrapping Explained

Unwrapping a Mesh

Managing the UV Layout

Editing the UV Layout

Applying an Image

Painting the Texture

Projection Paint

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[edit] World and Ambient Effects

World Background

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[edit] Animation Basics

Tools: Ipo Types; Creating Ipo Keyframes; Editing Ipo Curves and Keyframes; The Timeline

Animating Objects: Moving objects on a Path; Changing Object Layers

Animating Deformation: Methods of deformation; Shape Keys; Absolute Shape Keys; Deforming by a Lattice

Other Resources: Reference: Editing Ipos; Hook Modifier to animate mesh deformation

BSoD Tutorial: Constraints and Axis Locks

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[edit] Armatures and Character Animation

Armatures: Armature Objects; Editing Armatures; Posing Armatures; Inverse Kinematics

Mesh Skin Weighting: Mesh Skin Weighting

Animation Editors: The Action Editor; Non Linear Animation

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[edit] Constraints

Introduction: Introduction; Constraint Stack

Objects Constraints: Child Of; Copy Location; Copy Rotation; Copy Scale; Limit Location; Limit Rotation; Limit Scale; Floor; Track To; Locked Track; Follow Path; Clamp To; Stretch To; Transformation

Special Constraints: Rigid Body Joint; IK Solver; Action; Script; Null

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[edit] Advanced Animation

Driven Shape Keys (Ipo Drivers)

Ipo Drivers Example

Python Ipo Drivers

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[edit] Effects and Physical Simulation

Particles: Particles; Types; Physics; Visualization; Controlling Emission, Interaction and Time; Children; Particle Mode; Hair

Soft Body: Introduction; Exterior forces; Interior forces; Collisions; Simple Examples; Combination with armatures; Combination with hair particles; Reference

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[edit] Rendering

The Render Window

Options: Render Options; Oversampling (Antialiasing); Render engines: YafRay; Render Bake; Rendering From the Command Line

Output: Output Options; Output Formats; Rendering Animations; Video output

Compositing: Render Layers; Render Passes

Camera: Perspective (Vanishing points); Depth Of Field

Other: Rendering Performances

Post-production

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[edit] Compositing with nodes

Compositing Nodes: Introduction; Nodes Editor; Using Nodes

Node types: Node types; Input Nodes; Output Nodes; Color Nodes; Vector Nodes; Filter Nodes; Convertor Nodes; Matte Nodes; Distortion Nodes; Groups nodes

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[edit] Editing Sequences

The sequencer: Sequencer window modes; Sequence Screen Layout; Usage

Effects: Built-in Effects; Plugin Effects

Audio: Audio Sequences

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[edit] Extending Blender

Python Scripting

Python Scripting in Blender

Setting up Python

The Text Editor

A working example

Python Scripts: Bundled Scripts; Catalog of all Scripts

Blender Python API: Blender2.49 Python API

Plugins: Blender's Plugins System

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[edit] Game Engine

Usage

Physics: Physics Engine

Python API: Bullet physics; VideoTexture; Blender2.49 Game Engine Python API

Various resources: Game Engine Basics (BSoD Tutorial); FAQ and List of Features; External resources

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