The "logic" of Blender

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I’m still relatively new to Blender and how it all works but I’m trying my best to understand it all. One thing that’s leaving me a bit confused is the seperation of objects, meshes and armitures. Let me explain.

I have read on a couple of posts that if you are goign to model a character, let’s say, you should use several objects to make it and not just one object and then if you add an armiture that’s yet another object.

So now if it’s a character that I use a lot my understanding is that I have to import each object seperately. Is there a way to just have the character as ONE object - bones and all so I don’t have to worry about reassembling is every time I want to use him?

If I want to move my computer to the next room I don’t want to have to reasemble it when I get there I just want to pick up the box and go.

Can someone who’s been around the block a couple of times please try to explain this. Thanx.

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Keeping things seperate is sometimes the most organized way to work. When you want to move them / append them just select them all together. You can multiple select Objects etc. Hope that helps …

EDIT: Ctrl-A selects all objects to append. I believe on the Mac you can Apple drag select items. On PC Ctrl select don’t seem to work 2.4

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When you use Append, just drag the right mouse button over all the things you want to import at once.

Hope this helps.