From Blender¶

Concept and hotkey mapping from Blender to Elysium Designer.

Blender is a full-featured DCC: polygon modeling, sculpting, UV unwrapping, rendering, video editing. Elysium Designer is a much narrower tool: it authors .esk skins, not films or 3D assets. The overlap is in modeling primitives, brush systems, and animation.

Use Blender for; use the Designer for¶

Use Blender for	Use the Designer for
Polygon modeling, retopo, UV unwrap	Authoring skins consumed by Elysium
Sculpting (multires)	Per-skin texture painting
Cycles / EEVEE rendering	PBR previews for skins
Compositor / video editor	(no equivalent)

For the usual workflow: model in Blender → export .gltf or .3ds → import into the Designer → texture / animate / package.

Hotkey map (selected)¶

Blender's selection-first hotkey model is similar to the Designer's. Most letters land in the same place.

Blender	Action	Designer
`Tab`	Object / Edit mode toggle	`V` (vertex mode on Mesh3D)
`G`	Grab (move)	`W` (Move)
`R`	Rotate	`E`
`S`	Scale	`R`
`Numpad .`	Frame selected	`F`
`Numpad ,`	Frame all	`A`
`Numpad 1 / 3 / 7`	Front / Side / Top view	Orbit gizmo (top-right)
`Alt + middle drag`	Orbit	`Alt + middle drag` (same)
`Z`	Toggle wireframe	`4` (wireframe mode)
`Shift+A`	Add menu	Toolbox shape tools (`M`, `F`, `Shift+M`)
`X` / `Delete`	Delete	`Delete`
`Cmd/Ctrl + Z`	Undo	`Cmd/Ctrl + Z` (same)
`B`	Box select	`Q` (Select) with drag
`Ctrl + Tab`	Mode pie menu	F2-F6 (menu sets)

Concept map¶

Blender concept	Designer equivalent
Object	Placement
Mesh	Mesh3D placement
Empty	Group placement
Camera	Camera placement
Light	Light placement
Material	Material (Hypershade)
Texture image	Image placement / texture map on a material
Modifier stack	Deformer stack
Armature / Bones	Joint chain
Vertex group	Render part mask
Shape keys	Blend shapes (rig.shape_editor)
Action	Animation clip (Trax)
NLA Editor	Trax + Time Editor
Driver	Constraint with expression
Geometry Nodes	(no v1 equivalent)
Compositor	(no v1 equivalent)

Import workflow¶

File > Import > glTF / OBJ… (Blender exports both natively). Blender's UV unwrapping carries through; Designer reads UVs but does not re-author them.

For .fbx import, install the optional blender2fbx companion extension or re-export from Blender as .gltf.

Brush workflow¶

Blender's texture-painting and sculpting brushes are conceptually similar to the Designer's brush system. The six Designer engines (round_stamp, airbrush, bristle, texture, pattern, wet_mix) cover the most common Blender brush kinds.

Blender's .abr import is third-party; the Designer reads .abr and .sut natively.

Coordinate system¶

Both apps use a right-handed coordinate system with Z up by default. Models exported from Blender import without axis remapping.

When Blender still wins¶

Anything beyond UI skin authoring: feature animation, VFX, cinematic rendering, modeling complex meshes, sculpting, retopo.
Geometry Nodes / procedural modeling.
Compositor / video editing.