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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 2. Getting Comfortable Using the 3D View FREE CHAPTER 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 – detailing the cabin using the Boolean modifier

You made the cabin, the two portal Booleans, and the door Boolean. Now, you will combine them to make the portals and door openings in the cabin. Execute the following steps:

  1. Select the cabin.
  2. Select the Modifiers button in the header of the Properties window. It's the button with the little wrench.
  3. In the Modifiers subpanel, press the Add Modifier button with the LMB. Then, select Boolean from the pop-up menu.
  4. When the Add Modifier subpanel appears, press the button with the cube below the word Object. Choose Door Boolean from the pop-up menu. Set Operation to Difference, as shown on the right of the next graphic.
  5. You have just made the door frame.
  6. Press the Add Modifier button with the LMB again. Then, select Boolean from the pop-up menu.
  7. When the second Add Modifier subpanel appears, choose Portal Boolean as Object. Set Operation to Difference, as shown on the right of the next screenshot.
  8. You have just made the rear...
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