How to create an interactive 3D keyboard with Spline

[@splinetool]

Hi everyone! You can now achieve this tutorial 8x times faster! ☀ - The new Key Press event combines the Key Up and Key Down, so you only need to define it once. - With the new Components feature you can duplicate an object and maintain the interactions on the copies (so you only need to build one Key). Tutorial here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jITHlXmkec-Di6M - Also, the UI improved so much since this video was released. The transition parameters are now inside of the "Transition" action. It is now possible to have sequential transitions, as well as multiple actions per event.

[@Just_Moh_it]

You should pin this comment 🙃

[@splinetool]

@@Just_Moh_it true, done!

[@antdx316]

Share each demo please, the scene wise with all the assets and variables. Have each video on here and the spline website to have this ability.

[@abdullahimamoglu]

Can You Make One Video About Making Hectohedron With 100 Faces and Show Us how to Place at each Face a Different Picture? I AM Hoping to see You Do That Soon!!!

[@DanDrambles]

For anyone coming to this after the software updated and having trouble with the smooth/edit on the key, what you need to do is before clicking on smooth and edit, reduce the corner values and this should make it function more like it does in this tutorial.

[@user-zk3zn8fz1j]

Thank you so much for this comment !!

[@tejashinduja]

Thanks man! You're a life saver

[@hijen5135]

Where? I cant see my copied image when pasted

[@thedot5705]

Thank u so much bro

[@nushen88]

It's not working for me

[@shafu_xyz]

It's such an eye candy, didn't knew spline could make this realistic rendering

[@splinetool]

Glad you liked it!

[@splinetool]

@@dailyeditz7491 Check our docs: docs.spline.design/4b255cf699fb4f3eaa91cea2036f7a3b

[@SparshPaliwal]

Followed it through and learned so much. My first ever 3D project. This was so cool :)

[@momalzahid7969]

Can you make detailed tutorial, what is each function for with minor easy examples to understand better? for instance loop cut etc, as someone who is new to 3D modeling, it gets hard to understand that why a particular function is being used and how much capacity it holds. Would mean a lot.

[@adriantaropa5445]

Useful information but it's way too fast. You have to realize that for many it's the first time we're seeing this app. I was excited to get started but this tutorial kinda took the wind out of my sail.

[@gg-rf4ym]

Put playback speed at .5

[@angelosa.3178]

This is my first tutorial for Spline. Pretty easy to follow ! Thank you so much!

[@langityayash]

Hye , sorry to ask but what version you use cause as a beginner. I find it hard to follow and the version updates are different from the video so the interfaces are mostly confusing

[@ZakariaBoualaid]

I am really impressed with this tool, I always wanted an easy way to integrate 3D in a website, and this really seems disrupting a lot of other tools, well done!

[@grivoyulaiarialengka1540]

the way you explain it doesn't make me confuse, and yeah i can make it like in the video, thankyou!!

[@raisaraminnadia7833]

one of the best tutorials in 3d gfx designing

[@isuhanas6976]

spent almost 3-4 hours for this. my 1st 3D and more to come! love thisss

[@_dinesh]

WOW blender was so difficult to work with. Spline nailed it! User experience is amazing! ❤

[@666watcher66]

TNice tutorials might just be the first motivational comnt ive ever seen on a tutorial vid. ga thanks bro

[@f11bot]

This could single-handedly bring the new skeuomorphism to life! 👏

[@gabbi4303]

Man tNice tutorials is on of the best tutorial in general on youtube. Clear, simple, constant, good to listen. Thank you for sharing.

[@andrewxzvxcud2]

this is so cool, id love to use this or see it being used with an e-commerce site

[@splinetool]

Totally! ❤️

[@GarethLewis83]

Great tutorial! Learnt a lot of the fundamentals, and was able to replicate it really well. I was sent here by the Spline team, because the new Polaroid tutorial was way too fast for me to keep up. A little bit of feedback... it's still quite fast, and I had to constantly pause and rewind back because as soon as I followed an instruction, the video was already 2 or 3 steps ahead by then! Maybe I'm just a bit slow!

[@splinetool]

Thanks for the feedback Gareth! We will have this in mind.

[@matteaparker4165]

I second this, everything moved way too fast for me and I couldn't keep up. I need a tutorial for dummies

[@GavStrange]

I third this! It's a bit *too* fast - especially when it's the tutorial recommended on the Spline website for getting started!

[@nileshshetty2496]

Lighting and Colouring are really important in order to make your keys look realistic.

[@hwl7521]

i got ambitious and made an iso enter! this was my first time doing anything 3d. it was fun. thank you :)

[@alanap173]

Thanks for the tutorial, it's much faster than any other method I came across.

[@helenzarembo]

Thank you! For a complete beginner that video was so useful in many ways! I manage to make that keyboard and it works like a charm!

[@PaCCharLie]

God, I'm glad I found your video that helped me

[@splinetool]

Glad it was helpful!

[@windmaomao]

thank you, really enjoy watching the video, especially in how effortless you are doing it. thank you for the great product.

[@oZenakos]

This is so sick, well done

[@obinnaihe2]

Starting my Spline journey now. Thanks for this 🙏🏽

[@1Chitus]

Thank you! This was so much fun to create :)

[@tomsdesign_]

amazing tutorial and product, well done Spline team!

[@JasonRamasami]

This is incredibly helpful and inspiring. Thankyou.

[@butttttttt7429]

This video should deserve more views.

[@nihanmohammed7998]

My first ever project. Thank you so much

[@fata__morgana]

Marvelous job, and thanks for this amazing tool !

[@-Seppuku-]

Love it ! Thanks a lot for this tutorial

[@calendoscopio3436]

Thanks for this tutorial ❤❤❤

[@Livingtoliveagain21]

This was SO much fun to do!!! Thank you!!

[@kuldeepdesigner]

I love your tutorials videos

[@steventran5426]

For anyone trying this tutorial for the first time around the time of this comment, you can still basically do everything the instructor does in the video. Just be aware that if you're using the basic version of Spline, you wont be able to change the duration of the animation transitions unless you get the premium version from what I understand. The animation will still work albeit much slower (you have to hold the button down) To get a quick and dirty understanding of how modeling works with animation, this video does a decent job but I wouldn't use it as a guide to understand lighting concepts. Im sure there are better videos that focus on that.

[@splinetool]

Hi! This is not correct. Everything in this tutorial can be achieved with Spline on its basic/free plan. Spline improved a lot since this video was released. The UI changed/improved, which might be why you are confused.

[@steventran5426]

@@splinetool Oh you're absolutely correct! My mistake. I only noticed that the transitional slider goes up in whole number increments at the time. Didnt realize I could type out the numbers there. Tysm!

[@nyoreikomoni]

So how do I change the duration in this new version?

[@steventran5426]

Its been a minute since I've played with it but I recall just double clicking on the value itself to type in your desired duration.@@nyoreikomoni

[@nilimawasnik4952]

Hey man, very clean, interesting and professional. Good sNice tutorialt.

[@phenlism]

sigh, this is for the people who were asking for help about smooth & edit and did not receive that help. (and also shame on Spline for not updating this tutorial either, it's not very helpful if we all can't get passed a certain step). if you were stuck like me, delete your cube. idk what was happening with the one I was messing with but just delete it and start over. - click the (+) to add a new shape > "Cube" - hold Shift while creating your cube. - if you're not already selecting the cube, click it - a "Shape" menu will appear on the right. look for "Corner" (it will probably be set to 8). set it to 0 - click "Smooth & Edit". good luck all :)

[@cr8tivemo]

First time ever using Spline. I'm a web designer and got bored of 2D images. I will be back for moreeeee

[@osks]

Very nicely done!

[@kervinalvar8629]

awesome tutorial... really love it. tysm!!

[@olive876]

very useful for me, some parameters I haven't tried before

[@lauramolina3006]

Great tutorial, thank you! Quick q, typing "Enter", "Return", "enter" or "return" for 'key" does not activate the GO animation (15:07). What are acceptable "keys" on the keyboard for key down/up?

[@romanbelyaev1457]

nice tutorial thanks!

[@musangowope5556]

Like the rest of all comments. I really enjoyed this tutorial :) Learn't so much from this. Spline is awesome

[@antonijapek]

I've taken an interest in Spline and have been trying to learn through various tutorials. This will be my last comment regarding the quality and structure of these tutorials. I find the constant back-and-forth quite frustrating, as I'm sure many students, like myself, follow the tutorials click by click. When the instructor goes back to make tweaks, we need to spend more time stopping, going back, and fixing things. I would greatly appreciate a clearer structure and less improvisation in the tutorials. This would make them not only more valuable but also shorter and more concise. Additionally, I've noticed that there's often a lack of explanation for certain choices, like why two gradient layers were chosen for the key, or the reason for moving the light. Providing explanations for these details would be extremely helpful, as it would save us time on additional research and enhance the tutorial's purpose.

[@ashleyrose1570]

oh my god, i could not agree more. As someone new to 3d design I just want to understand the logic behind tools like loop cut and in depth use cases for it rather than just get straight to creating something. So that I can quickly go over those and start working on my own projects rather than spend time creating 20 other things.

[@Dylanjn2301]

​@@ashleyrose1570 not so much spline related but tutorials by Grant Abbit and polygonrun way for blender might be what your are looking for. They are some of the best tutorials I came across when I was starting out with blender. They also explain the logic of everything they do. Blender isn't hard to learn. It's quite easy actually. I haven't used spine yet so can't compare how much easier spline is but the blender process isn't hard at all for beginners. I started a few years ago knowing absolutely nothing and now can make mostly anything I can imagine and all I really did was start with tutorials from the above creators I mentioned

[@ashleyrose1570]

@@Dylanjn2301 Thank you so much for the suggestion Dylan will definitely check them out for my project.

[@ridah2391]

good work king, love you

[@isaacsalmeron5259]

That was great. Thank you.

[@adanielmacedo]

Great job, thanks for sharing

[@AdamariMedia]

Amazing, I am trying to learn Spline in 1 week as a challenge!

[@kennedynwaeze]

nice

[@Angela-ll3zi]

Hi...! Cool and useful. Thank you very much. All the best…!

[@chuacant4254]

Awesome thank you for the info

[@tapashmazumdar8319]

Just tell me is this for beginners if not could you make tutorial about all the components what it is and it is use for and also how to use it .

[@donaldcanonoy3312]

Very helpful..thanks a lot.

[@KayandBurtonMedia]

Thanks a lot man!

[@carlaostmann2708]

anyone else having trouble with customizing the corners, eg at 3:50? i can select the points and the little three arrows appear but i cant use them (when i click & drag it just starts selecting instead of moving like the arrows are supposed to)

[@pcneuh5975]

Started on Spline yesterday. Software looks great - very excited to get my hands on it - but it's just absolutely obnoxious to link this tutorial on the "Intro" section of the docs. The guy barely explains anything - he just clicks around assuming that what he's doing is obvious and even at 0.75 speed it's essentially impossible to watch while you execute it. This is NOT an introduction to Spline - it assumes prior knowledge and lots of patience to try to make sense of what is being said / done.

[@ryawav]

Thanks! That hepled a lot

[@josevaltierra8360]

I was stuck at minute 1:55 because I couldn't do inset to all the vertices at the same time and it was because spline gives the figure eight corners by default. You have to remove them all and only one will remain and that's when you press shift and you drag all the vertices inward. I hope it helps someone, greetings. BTW very good 3d software.

[@dennisdsouza3392]

thank u helped me a lot

[@vladpatana]

Thank you, I've done!

[@nikilragav]

So nice! I love this app

[@ronielton1995]

very fun!

[@joaocesarlima7339]

Awesome! Is there any way to integrate Spline's output into some development environment to create a game, for example?

[@splinetool]

At the moment you can use the react-spline API to access the events and manipulate objects from react. We will improve in this area though!

[@joaocesarlima7339]

@@splinetool Got it! Thanks!

[@superfishstreams]

wow thanks! Took me some time but I got it done! This is the first time I've made 3d object in years! You can copy and paste the events actually! you just need to make the 'states' and the copy and paste of the events will work. I'm curious if I can export this to a wix website.... hmmmm

[@maneeshchouhan7712]

Which option Should i cchoose to create same key down event in updated spline. The interface is different with more option now.

[@ericbenitezmartina1923]

Great tutorías great app!!

[@splinetool]

❤

[@MedoHamdani]

It will be very useful while editing this video to add the commands on the screen. For example, Ctrl + C and so on Also if there is a quick guide or a playlist for beginners that would be useful.

[@pacgirlschanel]

I'm stuck, After I disable subdivision, I'm having a hard time shaping the cube to the form of a key like in 1:56 - I have ''Face F'' selected and then I would shift + clicking on the arrow to narrow the height of the cube but nothing is happening. HELP. What am I doing wrong? Using windows.

[@splinetool]

Hi Luz! Did you tried increasing the subdivision again? Btw you can join our discord community (link at spline.design) to get help. It is most likely that you are missing a step.

[@ferinko987]

I also got stuck at that part.

[@pacgirlschanel]

@@splinetool Thank you so much! I did disable/increase subdivision a few times and then it started working!

[@GarethLewis83]

I had the same issue. Just in case anyone else does too... I updated to a newer version of Spline and it all worked perfectly. If you are using the web based version is should work fine too.

[@MichaelAshtons]

I had the same issue. I had to disable/increase subdivision in the normal cube selected mode, and after clicking into the "Edit Mesh" mode.

[@KodinMusic]

amazing tnx

[@DoBeech]

Don't matter how long you take, long as you do it cause you love to

[@micky3982]

most of the functionalities do not correspond what shown in the video and aren't same ,

[@davidfitcher2953]

amazing

[@Josephsasa]

Love it!

[@cliffswitzer4385]

Just discovered this site! Wow! Can you trigger events from data inputs like a simple google sheet or database? For example: boxes change colors based on a cell value. Would be cool for interactive infographics with live data.

[@ReeceSullivan-h3v]

I have finished creating the model. Now I am trying to create the actions for pressing the key. The menu for "State" does not look the same on my screen as it does on yours, is this because I am using the free version? I do not have the Object, State, Cycle, Repeat, transition, duration, and delay settings.

[@Jonas-qm7ls]

Please, update the video or the official documentation.

[@Pipe_oficial]

Hi, can i add any type of link and logo to the keycaps? ty very much

[@mirkovelimirovic3946]

neat!

[@udaydilliwar9611]

Dive in!!

[@mdanisurbd6549]

Thats how it be

[@ishastone8251]

I'm trying to follow the steps on the video and I'm stuck on the very first step where you clicked on Smooth & Edit after creating a cube. In the current UI the cube gets much more outlines on the edges and it's unclear how to perform the actions with 3 arrows you did. What should I do? Are there any tutorials for newbies like me with the new UI?

[@davidgvozdenovic4707]

This is awesome,I recently find out about spline i’m interested,can i make full calculator with spline similar like in this tutorial just with screen and make it interactive i functional with a bit of JavaScript?

[@ferrnandagadelha]

I'm following this tutorial now and I can't seem to make it work for multiple interactions. It works once, but If I want to keep pressing the keys, they are just static. Has anyone had a similar issue? How did you solve it?

[@kroses13]

Hi, why didn't you just add a colour map above the depth map to generate the colours?

[@user-df1qm7zh5j]

cool video)

[@figjgifggghf6040]

Thx

[@alwinlangmann89]

would be nice to be able to copy states, or make a component state that can be applied to multiple objects, it should just remember what actually changed, in this instance the y position.

[@josipasimic3245]

One question, i cant seem to edit points in subdivision mode, i can select them but after the arrows show up i cant make any adjustments?

[@qazimaaz6301]

tell me how if they are working now please...

[@moseswan44]

when I increase the subdivision it doesn't show the rounded shape you have in your video, is it because of an upudate?

[@nikilragav]

3:00 can you snap the subdivisions? So let's say I want to subdivide into 3rds, can I get 2 equally spaced loops?

[@vocalhunt9122]

Is it possible to add audio files to an event? Would be an amazing feature 😊

[@avarice5071]

Is it possible to add the text input somewhere. For instance I type k and *K* appears in a designated location

[@basvanderwiel2917]

When i am in play mode and press a key it only does it once, i can’t click it more then 1 time. Can anyone help me?

[@AaronBrako]

At 9:45 - Shouldn't the lighting engine be able to take care of reflected light based on material properties, instead of having to manually define a source of reflected light?

[@kennedynwaeze]

interesting tutorial, You didn't mention your name to tag you

[@bso21879]

Any way you could try creating a treasure chest opening if you hover your mouse over it? Maybe something coming out of the chest too? Think it would be cool to see this 👍🏼

[@splinetool]

Oh, that seems interesting. We will add it to our list!

[@kasperdahl3824]

Great tutorial! :) Quick question though, how do I find the environment settings in the new update? I tried under the light dropdown, but I can't seem to find anything to replicate to orange light bouncing.

[@aycinyildirim2946]

where is smooth and edit tool i can't find in last version

[@markturner4509]

I’m new to all this 3D stuff but I searched for beginner tutorial so I started watching and the man doing the tutorial but he’s not explaining how he’s doing anything so what I’m asking for is a beginners tutorial could someone direct me to one please, thank you

[@andrescouttenye9720]

dont know why but when i tried to modify the first surface , the top surface only that part move, not like the vido that the complete structure move, does anyone knows why ?