Default Settings

Blender Defaults

Below is a proposal of settings that should be default, based on community feedback of new users, old users, and teachers (as well as BFCT).

User Preferences

• Continuous Grab on
• Auto-Perspective on
• Trackball Rotation instead of Turntable (used to be this way)
• Increase Sequencer Cache limit to 512 at least
• Rotate Around Selection on(needs to be fixed in painting modes)
• Raise Undo Steps to 64

Settings

• 3D View
  • Disable/Hide the 3D manipulator (clutters 3DView and is "bad practice" for starters)
  • X-Ray and Wire display for bones
  • Clip Start on 3D View less than 0.100 (as possible) (actually problematic for big scenes)
• Text Editor
  • Syntax Highlighting
  • Lines Number
• Timeline
  • Sync Mode to Frame Dropping
• World
  • Ambient Occlusion to Multiply instead of Add
• Textures
  • Default type to "Image or Movie"
• Modifiers
  • Disable Bone Envelopes on Armature modifier

Addons

• Copy Attributes
• Save Game as RunTime

Notes

Some defaults are laptop (like Emulate Numpad) or tablet specific (Emulate 3 Button Mouse). A simple Add-on could add this option to the splash screen or so.