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    <h1>Blender Guide</h1>
    <p>Simple beginners guide</p>

    <h2>Top</h2>
    <p>Topbar and Workspaces</p>
    <img src="images/blendertop.png" alt="Blender Topbar and Workspaces" />

    <h2>Areas &amp; Editors</h2>
    <h3>Areas are areas... where you can view <em>Editors</em> such as the <em>3D Viewport</em> or the <em>Timeline</em></h3>
    <img src="images/areas.png" alt="Blender Areas" />
    <span class="box layout-grid2x2">
      <div>3D Viewport</div><div>Outliner</div>
      <div>Timeline</div><div>Properties</div></span>

    <h3>Find all the Editors by pressing the icon on the top left of the Area</h3>
    <img src="images/areas2.png" alt="Blender Editors Icon" />

    <h2>You can move them around, duplicate and delete.</h2>
    <p>You can even save your new layout in the <a href="#Top">Workspaces</a>, but that comes later.</p>

    <div class="video-container"><video controls>
      <source src="images/blendergif.mp4" type="video/mp4" />error</video></div>
    <span class="box layout-grid2x2">
      <div>3D Viewport(s)</div><div>Outliner</div>
      <div>Timeline*</div><div>Properties</div></span>

    <h2>Move the camera around (Middle Mouse / Shift+Middle Mouse)</h2>

    <img src="images/pan.gif" alt="gif" />
    <span class="box layout-grid2x2">
      <div>3D Viewport</div></span>

    <h2>Move (G), Scale (S) and Rotate (R)</h2>
    <h3>Press it once, don't hold it.</h3>

    <p>Tip: Then press X, Y, or Z to lock the change to a certain axis.</p>

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      <source src="images/movescale.mp4" type="video/mp4" />error</video></div>
    <span class="box layout-grid2x2">
      <div>3D Viewport</div></span>

    <h3>Remember: Undo: Ctrl+Z. Redo: Ctrl+Shift+Z</h3>

    <h1>TIP:</h1>
    <h3>You can't move things closer or further away, so view them from the side first</h3>
    <p>Also try the colorful viewport axis</p>
    <div class="video-container"><video controls>
      <source src="images/moving.mp4" type="video/mp4" />error</video></div>
    <span class="box layout-grid2x2">
      <div>3D Viewport</div></span>

    <h2>Adding Objects (Shift+A)</h2>
    <div class="video-container"><video controls>
      <source src="images/adding.mp4" type="video/mp4" />error</video></div>
    <span class="box layout-grid2x2">
      <div>3D Viewport</div></span>


    <h1>TIP:</h1>
    <h3>Can't find something? Try scrolling</h3>
    <img src="images/scroll.gif" alt="gif" />
    <span class="box layout-grid2x2">
      <div>3D Viewport</div><div>Outliner</div>
      <div>Timeline</div><div>Properties</div></span>


    <h1>Properties!!!</h1>
    <h3>COLORS COLORS COLORS</h3>
    <h3>Define your scene, camera and objects</h3>
    <p>The camera is the framing of your final image</p>
    <p></p>
    <h3>Notice that when you select different objects, different options appear in the "Properties"</h3>

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        <source src="images/properties.mp4" type="video/mp4" />error</video></div>
    <span class="box layout-grid2x2">
      <div>3D Viewport</div><div>Properties</div>
      <div>Outliner</div><div></div></span>


    <h1>Exercise: Make a scene with 2 objects and a light nearby</h1>
    <h3>Notice the Usefulness of the 3D Viewport's "Transform" Sidebar</h3>
    <p>Try rotating (R) an object along the (Z) axis</p>

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      <source src="images/checkpoint1.mp4" type="video/mp4" />error</video></div>
    <span class="box layout-grid2x2">
      <div>3D Viewport</div><div>Outliner</div>
      <div></div><div>Properties</div></span>


    <h1>Viewport Shading and Rendering</h1>
    <h3></h3>
    <p>In the top right of the 3D Viewport you have the option to change the method of displaying your scenes. The default is "Solid", there's also "Wireframe", and "Rendered" which will be the preview of your final image.</p>

    <img src="images/viewshade.png" alt="" />
    <span class="box layout-grid2x2">
      <div>3D Viewport</div></span>

    <h3>EEVEE or Cycles? which Render Engine should you use?</h3>

    <img src="images/evecy.png" alt="" />
    <span class="box layout-grid2x2">
      <div>Properties</div></span>

    <p>They dictate your final image, so you can view them in the "Rendered" Viewport Shading.</p>
    <h3>Cycles brings photorealism out-of-the-box, glass behaves like glass, etc. The only downside is it's very computationally heavy. So I like to make it easier on my PC by drastically reducing the 'Max Samples' in my Viewport</h3>
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      <source src="images/render.mp4" type="video/mp4" />error</video></div>
    <span class="box layout-grid2x2">
      <div>3D Viewport</div><div>Properties</div></span>
    <p>After Hitting Render (F12) in the Topbar, pay attention to the time remaining, it could be seconds or hours, to make it faster you can decrease the 'Max Samples' for the Render, or reduce the resolution in the Output button right under the Render button</p>
    <p>FYI: "Rendering Animation" by default won't make a video, each frame will be an image.

    <h3>How Cycles works: more or less</h3>
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    <h1>Anyways</h1>
    <h3>Here's a long video from start to render</h3>
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    <span class="box layout-grid2x2">
      <div>3D Viewport</div><div>Outliner</div>
      <div></div><div>Properties</div></span>


    <h2>Blender-Themes:</h2>
    <p><a href="https://github.com/kame404/blender-themes?tab=readme-ov-file#blender-themes"
         target="_blank"
         rel="noopener noreferrer">View Themes</a></p>
        <img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/54836559/219700576-83a770c2-bb43-4eea-b6cf-a76db62c09b5.png" alt="" />


    <h2>Modes of the 3D Viewport</h2>
    <h3>In Object Mode, you select whole objects.<br>And in Edit Mode you can select by vertices, edges or faces</h3>

    <h2>Switch Modes (TAB) and Select All (A)</h2>
    <p>TAB is a shortcut for switching between your current mode (Object Mode by default) and Edit Mode.</p>
    <p>Tip: Make sure to firstly pick the object(s) in Object Mode that you want to work on in Edit Mode</p>

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      <source src="images/tabandshifta.mp4" type="video/mp4" />error</video></div>
    <span class="box layout-grid2x2">
      <div>3D Viewport</div></span>


    <h2>Edit mode</h2>
    <p>Tip: Make sure to firstly pick the object(s) in Object Mode that you want to work on in Edit Mode</p>
    <img src="images/editmode.gif" alt="Edit Mode gif" />
    <span class="box layout-grid2x2">
      <div>3D Viewport</div></span>

    <h1>the end</h1>
        <h1>the end</h1>
            <h1>the end</h1>
                <h1>the end</h1>
                    <h1>the end</h1>

    <h2>The Camera</h2>
    <p>This is how the framing of your final render will look like</p>
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      <source src="images/camera.mp4" type="video/mp4" />error</video></div>
    <span class="box layout-grid2x2">
      <div>3D Viewport</div><div>Outliner</div>
      <div></div><div>Properties</div></span>


    <h2>Useful things</h2>
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    <h2>More info:</h2>
    <p>
      <a href="https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/index.html"
         target="_blank"
         rel="noopener noreferrer">
        Blender documentation
      </a>
    </p>


    <h1>the end</h1>


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