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Taking Blender to the Next Level

You're reading from   Taking Blender to the Next Level Implement advanced workflows such as geometry nodes, simulations, and motion tracking for Blender production pipelines

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803233567
Length 520 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Modeling, Materials, and Animation Workflows
2. Chapter 1: Using Geometry Nodes to Create Dynamic Scenes FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Creating a Motion Graphics Scene Using Geometry Nodes 4. Chapter 3: Organic Modeling P1: Creating a Mushroom 5. Chapter 4: Organic Modeling P2: Creating the Landscape around the Mushroom 6. Chapter 5: PBR Materials: Texturing our Mushroom Scene 7. Chapter 6: 3D Scanning and Photogrammetry: Creating Your Own 3D Scans 8. Chapter 7: Modeling an Alien Cartoon Character 9. Chapter 8: Rigging and Animating Your 3D Cartoon Character 10. Part 2: Let's Do Some Physics
11. Chapter 9: Rigid Body Simulation: Destroying a Statue Using Physics 12. Chapter 10: Dynamic Cloth Simulations 13. Chapter 11: Creating Dynamic Hair Using Particles 14. Part 3: Match Moving and Compositing
15. Chapter 12: Matching Blender's Camera Movement to Live Action Footage 16. Chapter 13: Compositing the Alien Cartoon Character onto the Live Action Footage 17. Chapter 14: The Final Render 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating our base mesh and instance object

In this section, we will create our base mesh and also spend some time modeling a basic but more interesting instance object and distributing it across our base mesh using the nodes that we've looked at in Chapter 1, Using Geometry Nodes to Create Dynamic Scenes.

Let's start by creating a plane object, which we will use as our base mesh.

Creating the base mesh

Follow these steps to create the base mesh and apply its scale:

  1. Create a new Blender project.
  2. Delete all the objects in the scene by pressing A and then pressing X to confirm the deletion.
  3. Click on the Geometry Nodes tab to enter its workspace.

Let's begin by creating our plane – this will be the area where our objects will appear. Let's make the plane 10 m x 10 m.

  1. Create a plane by pressing Shift + A, and then select Mesh | Plane.
  2. Scale the plane by pressing S and then pressing 10. Click anywhere to confirm the...
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