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Hello everyone.

In this lesson I'm going to show you how to sit up

blender to make our workflow a little bit easier.

And firstly, you need to get blender and you can get that at blender.org.

Or if you have steam installed on your PC anyway,

you can get blended directly from the steam store as well free.

And the cool thing about installing it from steam is it'll get

updated automatically as new versions are released.

Cool, and this is what blender looks like.

So let's go up to Edit.

Click on Preferences, and then look for key map.

Let's click on K-map.

And then over here you'll see extra shading pie menu items.

So let's click to enable that.

And that'll just add a few more options for us to use while we're working.

And the next list, click on Add-ons.

And in the search box type node.

And then look for Node Wrangler and click to enable that as well.

And this will add a lot of cool features when we're working with nodes within Blender,

as you'll see in later lessons.

And then miss click on System.

And then at the top here you'll see Cycles render devices.

And what that does is when we use these cycles renderer

to render our images later on as we going to do in later lessons,

we can use our graphics card to speed up that process.

So if you have an NVIDIA graphics card,

you can click on cuda and you'll be able to see it Dan selected day.

If you have an RTX graphics card,

you can click on optics and it'll speed up the process even further.

And if you have an AMD graphics card,

you'll see it under OpenCL and you'll be able to select it day while we're here.

Just make sure that global undo is enabled as well.

Cool.

And then lastly, blend the users the middle mouse button,

a lot for navigation when moving around the 3D workspace.

And if you don't have a middle mouse button on your mouse,

just make sure on a lot of devices you can actually click in

your mouse wheel to use it as a middle mouse button.

But if you don't have a middle mouse button,

you can come to input over here.

And the intellect emulate three button mouse.

And what that does is if you hover over it,

you'll see it emulates the middle mouse with Alt, Left mouse.

So if you want to use a middle mouse function,

you can hold down Alt and then use

your left mouse button as you would the middle mouse button.

I do have a middle mouse button,

so I'm going to disable that Qu, and now we're ready to go.

We can close that down.

In the next lesson, we're going to look at how to navigate the 3D space within blender.