# Preferences ^prefs Edit > Preferences... - `System > Cycles Render Devices` to enable GPU rendering. - `File Paths > Asset Libraries` to set the location of asset library folders on disk. - `Interface > Temporary Editors > Render In > Keep User Interface` prevents the automatic render pop-up window. (You can still see the render by adding an Image Editor area anywhere in the UI set to show Render Result, or switching over to the Rendering tab.) - `Input > Tablet` has settings for drawing tablet input (depending on what tablet you're using, whether you've customized the input curves elsewhere, and how much pressure you use while drawing) - `Max Threshold` to something like 0.75 reduces how hard you have to press on the tablet to get the highest strength value (so you don't have to go really hard to get full strength strokes). - `Softness` to something like -0.5 makes soft strokes softer (so you don't have to fiddle with the strength settings to get really soft strokes), while leaving the strong strokes just as strong. - `Keymap > Preferences` - `Pie Menu on Drag` enables pie menus while holding down keys while keeping different behavior for just tapping them. - `Tab`: edit mode (tap) and mode pie menu (drag) - `Z`: toggle wireframe (tap) and shading pie menu (drag) - `~`: walk navigation (tap) and view pie menu (drag) - `Extra Shading Pie Menu Items` lets you toggle X-Ray and Overlays from the `Z` menu. - `Navigation > Fly & Walk > Gravity` to make walk navigation respect the ground - Develop: enable `Interface > Developer Extras` and `Interface > Python Tooltips` # Sculpting - Settings for **Clay Strips**: - Right click > Assign Shortcut > `Alt + C` adds a shortcut, because it doesn't have one by default. (Analogy to the `C` shortcut to get to the Clay brush.) - Disable pressure sensitivity on Radius. This reserves the pressure to just set the strength of the stroke. - Brush Settings > Normal Radius to 1.1 allows you to gradually go higher than the surrounding geometry. (Compare to the default 1.55, which keeps you more strictly close to the surrounding surface, or going below 1.0, which allows you to quickly push _way_ past the surrounding surface.) - Brush Settings > Tip Roudness to 0.5 (can go lower if you want sharp straight edges, or higher if you want smoother rounder edges). - Stroke > Input Samples to 4 to average out the direction of the brush. (At the default of 1, the individual squares put down by the brush each have fully independent direction, which can be noisy.) - Don't forget to go to [[#^prefs|general preferences]] to adjust `Input > Tablet` settings for pressures sensitivity. References: - [FlippedNormals on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmi0KoFtc-4) - [Outgang on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R9ewSr5ESE) # Grease Pencil # Annotations - Built-in shortcuts: - `D + Left Click` to add - `D + Right Click` to erase - Add custom shortcut to remove annotation layer to clear. (Hit `Shift + Spacebar` to bring up tool switcher, then `D` to activate the annotation tool. At the top bar with tool options, expand the layers dropdown and press the minus button to delete the layer. If you right click the minus button instead, you can add a custom keyboard shortcut for it.)