Splitting and joining is not something that's exactly easy.
It takes a little bit of practice to get the finance just right.
Fortunately, Blender provides two different methods for this.
The method that I showed you in the last lecture is probably the harder of the two,
but I'm going to let you decide that for yourself.
So first of all, let's talk about the method that I've already gone over,
and then we'll go into this alternate method and figure out if that's something
that's a little bit easier for you or not.
So splitting.
You saw me do this in the last lecture.
I basically grabbed this corner over here,
left click and drag it out into the scene like this.
You're probably wondering, how would anybody even know
that they could do that unless they were told?
Well, that's a good question.
In older versions of Blender, there used to be these little
diagonal slits on the corners.
This would let you know that you could interact with the corners somehow.
At least there was something in the older versions of Blender.
But since Blender 2.8, they've taken out those diagonal slits.
Now, the only indicator that we have is that when we move our mouse
into the corner of an area, it turns into a crosshair.
I don't know how this is supposed to convey that you can
split and join, but that's the way Blender has decided to do this.
There's no longer any diagonal lines.
What we've done here is we basically taken one area and split it into two
by just grabbing the corner and pulling it into itself.
So I'm grabbing the inside of the corner over here
and dragging it into its own self.
So this is splitting this area into two.
If you wanted to join two areas together, you would do just the opposite of that.
Let's say, for example, I wanted to join this area into that area,
so I'm going to move my mouse
on this side of the edge and then cross over it like that.
That's how you join this together.
By the way, I haven't finished left clicking yet.
I'm still holding it on the left mouse button.
That's why you see this little arrow down here.
If I continue holding the left mouse button, I can change my mind.
I can actually go back over this edge again
and decide to make this panel join over here.
So I have this choice until I let go of that left mouse button.
Or if I decide I didn't want to join, maybe I wanted to split.
I could just right click to not commit that change.
So one more time, left click and drag go over the edge.
That's how you join.
You can change your mind or you can right click.
I'm going to go this way.
We'll go ahead and try to join these together.
Again, I want to join this over here.
So I'm going to start over here
and then left click and drag over the edge and then let go.
You can also split and join the other way.
So if I drag this corner down like this, I can split this way.
And then if I wanted to join it back together, same exact rule.
I'll grab it on this side, cross the edge, and then join it back like that.
Now, this might not seem that hard to you.
And maybe with these instructions, maybe I made it easier for you.
Definitely.
Go in here and try this for yourself and get a good feel for it.
Now I want to show you what I consider to be a little bit easier, at least for me.
And that is, instead of dragging these corners around,
just right click on the edge between two areas.
So, for example, we have this big area here and this little area,
right click on that edge and then you get some area options.
So if I wanted to make a vertical or horizontal split,
all you need to do is just click on one of those things.
So click on vertical.
So you could see this is what a vertical split looks like
if you clicked on the wrong thing and you want to go back just right click.
And then we'll try it again. Right click horizontal.
You can actually hit
the tab key to switch between vertical and horizontal.
That's another option.
So instead of going back, I can just hit tab until I decide
what I want to do and then left click to set it down.
So one more time, right click, choose either one of these.
It really doesn't matter if you know about TAB and then use tab
to make your final decision
to join these back together using the same kind of technique.
I'm going to go ahead and right click on this edge between these two areas.
So right click.
And now, because
these areas can be joined together, you can see that option right here.
Join areas.
And if you remember, before we get this little arrow here to tell us,
do I want to move this down here or do I want to move this up there?
Once you know the answer, just left click to commit
to that change or right click to not do anything.
One more time, right click.
Join areas, choose which side and then let it go.
So I want you to go in and actually practice this yourself
and then decide which one of these techniques is easier for you,
and then we'll be ready to move on to the next challenge.