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Blender 3D Basics

You're reading from   Blender 3D Basics The complete novice's guide to 3D modeling and animation

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849516907
Length 468 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. www.PacktPub.com
2. 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 Pop quiz Answers Index

Time for action — joining Blender windows


Blender windows are easy to remove. Put the cursor over the upper-left window. Move the mouse over the diagonal lines at the lower-left corner of that window. Hold down the left mouse button (LMB) while you move the mouse down towards the window below it. The window below becomes darker and there is a light gray arrow pointing into that window.

Continue to hold the mouse down and move the mouse up to the original window; it becomes darker and has an arrow pointing into it as seen in the following image. Whichever window is darker and has the arrow will disappear when you release the mouse button.

If you find you don't want the window to disappear, just move the mouse into another window besides those two. The arrow will go away and you can release the mouse button without any changes happening.

What just happened?

To join two windows, you selected the diagonal lines in the corner of a window and moved the mouse vertically toward the window next to it...

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