Important Five-Minute Lesson on Blender Data Blocks and Fake Users

[@Brandon-3D]

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[@ArijanRace]

Top notch tutorial, I was glued to the screen the whole way through. It's unfortunate that this type of information doesn't get a lot of clicks.

[@jakeperl5857]

Great explanation that finally made the concept "users" click for me - thank you!

[@Brandon-3D]

Awesome, thank you again!

[@ROVideos]

Easy, straight to the point. The best video on the topic one could watch.

[@etherlonX]

It's these little bits of info that when put together make using Blender easier to use. Thanks for the vid!

[@Brandon-3D]

Thanks again, I appreciate the continued support!

[@25202]

I have been using blender for 3 years now. Thank you for the information

[@humbleninja6732]

Fake Users! It's not what we thought it was LOL 😅! Thank you Brandon -- Really great explanation.

[@Brandon-3D]

Thank you! Always nice to get some positive feedback. Take care!

[@ramdogproductions]

Great video as always!! Appreciate the deep dive and simple break down

[@rmet255]

I was only brought up to this video after losing my animation lol. You eloquently explained the subject! Thank you.

[@musubi-bi]

Very useful info! I knew it saved data block but didn't understand the why to Blender defaulting to deleting unused it datablocks. Thanks for the explanation

[@iulian_98]

Now I just want you to imagine that I get various configurations of procedural materials (water, fire, ice, wood, etc.), give them suggestive names, assign them a fake user, and then save the configuration. Now I can create any object and assign any procedural material to it with just one click.

[@MRUStudios]

Excellent tutorial Brandon! You have an awesome way of making complex subjects straightforward and easy to understand. I didn't even think about setting up Fake Users to create a default Blender file that already contains the things you regularly use and need! That's awesome! Thanks for all you do to help others learn 3D art and Blender. I hope you and your loved ones had a wonderful Valentine's Day and I hope you have a fantastic rest of your week! 😃

[@no-one3795]

Nice tutorial. I've been wondering what the fake user button actually does. And it's actually really useful.

[@Brandon-3D]

Thank you! Yes, I think it's pretty important to at least be aware of. Take care!

[@mattceccotti]

Oh, thank you 🙏 super clearly explained.

[@Brandon-3D]

Thanks again Matt!

[@ChigosGames]

Super to the point. Excellent tutorial

[@bagoquarks]

"Fake Users is a weird name but ...." 0:04 I remind myself regularly that Blender's documentation is supported in more than 20 languages. That said, those who are naming Blender things don't necessarily speak English. So when I encounter a "weird name" I make an extra effort to learn what's going on and then rename it in my head to something more intuitive: Fake User => Universal User, General User, Library User, Protected Asset ... Sample Index Node => Get Properties at Index Node. 'Sample' confused me because it has a specific meaning in statistics; statistics IS used elsewhere in Blender. SAMPLE means GET, SAMPLE means GET ... as in the Getters and Setters concept in many programming languages.

[@Brandon-3D]

Great point!

[@philipmcdonnell7168]

Thanks for another informative vid, Brandon. I had half an idea what the Fake User did but my mid-2012 Mac is so slow to render anything, I'm barely building materials and certainly not attempting full renders, animations, compositing etc. I just don't have the years to spare. 😁 But I will replace it sometime soon when Apple stop short-selling us with overclocked 5nm chipsets.

[@corvette724]

Enlighting, thx from Germany.

[@dark-wd6pd]

Thank you sir Always wanted to know what are those, but was too lazy to actually google it:)

[@toddlask]

great job!

[@Brandon-3D]

Thank you!!

Really useful videos, thank you! I'm new to blender and, coming from a basic knowledge of Cinema 4D, i was wondering where blender save materials. In Cinema 4D you create materials inside a dedicated panel that contains all of them and then you can drag the materials you want onto the desidered mesh. Blender system confused me so much :D

[@thornz9500]

Thanks for this, I was wondering why my textures kept deleting themselves after i had saved a file.

[@SoraTaeminProductions]

hi can you do one for material data on how to export it please and thank you im using 2.90

[@TheGreatAwesome]

How does this work with animations? I have a single rig and made an idle, run, and walk animation, but then suddenly the idle has a 0 in front of it. I've had to set it to fake user so as not lose it. But the idle animation works, it seems clearly assigned to the rig. I never unassigned it. How do you make it a "real" user?

[@ScorgeRudess]

This is god information for us the mortals

[@Brandon-3D]

HAHAHAH...l don't know about that but thank you so much!

[@vay911.]

please block him ”3d InspirationTuts” his explaining about blender.. he is scamming his own subscribers and is taking away money from them i have proof.

[@Neyavva]

Very sad for orphan data😂

[@Brandon-3D]

Haha. Coincidentally I believe they just changed the name to something else.

[@Neyavva]

@@Brandon-3D yeah 😂