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Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide Second Edition

You're reading from   Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide Second Edition A quick and easy-to-use guide to create 3D modeling and animation using Blender 2.7

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783984909
Length 526 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gordon Fisher Gordon Fisher
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing Blender and Animation FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Comfortable Using the 3D View 3. Controlling the Lamp, the Camera, and Animating Objects 4. Modeling with Vertices, Edges, and Faces 5. Building a Simple Boat 6. Making and Moving the Oars 7. Planning Your Work, Working Your Plan 8. Making the Sloop 9. Finishing Your Sloop 10. Modeling Organic Forms, Sea, and Terrain 11. Improving Your Lighting and Camera Work 12. Rendering and Compositing A. Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – selecting render presets

Render presets can save you a lot of time, make sure you don't forget to set important settings and act as a guide for what those settings should be:

  1. Press Esc to get back to the 3D View window. Zoom back far enough so that you can see the entire image area within the passepartout.
  2. In the Properties window, choose the Render button from the header.
  3. Look at the Dimensions subpanel of the Render panel. It shows you the X and Y resolution, the range of the frame numbers, the frame rate, and the aspect ratio.
  4. Select the Render Presets button and choose TV PAL 4:3 from the pop-up menu as shown in the following screenshot. Watch the 3D View window as you select it.
    Time for action – selecting render presets
  5. Note that the resolution, the frame rate, and the aspect ratio have changed.
  6. Now, open up the Post Processing subpanel. Note the Compositing, Sequencer, and Fields checkboxes.
    Time for action – selecting render presets
  7. Make sure that the Fields checkbox is checked.

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