
Press ‘R’ for Rotate and ‘X’ for x-axis. You can use it in this position or you could rotate around the X axis: It comes in parallel to the grid by default. File > Import > Images as Planes > select your image fileĪ plane appears in the centre of your workspace. Now hopefully when you click ‘File > Import’ you will see ‘Images as Planes’ at the bottom of the list. University computers will forget this information as soon as you log off, but if you’re using your own machine, create a ‘blender’ folder to store this resource. #HOW TO SPLIT THE SCREEN ON BLENDER ON MAC SOFTWARE#
The software will prompt you to find a location which could be anywhere on your hard drive. Do this by:Įdit > Preferences > Add Ons > Search ‘Image’ to find ‘Image as Plane’Ĭheck the checkbox to the left of it and press Install. If ‘Image as Plane’ is not visible under ‘Import’, you need to load it up. Then: File > Import > ‘Image as Plane’ (should be at the bottom of the list)
For a MacBook without a Del key, press Fn (bottom left) and Backspace (top right). Press Delete (you may need to use Del on the numpad). We don’t need the default objects in the scene so the first thing we do is delete them: (In many 3D softwares, Y is up/down, and Z is ‘depth’/’into the screen’.) In Blender, Z is up/down while X and Y axes are represented by the grid.
Press the Mouse Wheel and move Mouse to orbit around the central object. Experiment with Cloth Simulation parameters. Blender’s interface has changed since the video was made, but I have referenced sections with instructions which are still useful. The Blender method decscribed here is adapted from Blender Guru’s ‘Animated Flag’ tutorial.