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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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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

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 — detailing the cabin using the Boolean modifier


You made the cabin, the two portal Booleans and the door Boolean. Now you are going to combine them to make the portals and door openings in the cabin:

  1. Select the cabin.

  2. Select the Modifiers button in the header of the Properties window. It's the seventh button from the left, with the little wrench.

  3. In the Modifiers subpanel, press the Add Modifier button with theLMB. Then select Boolean from the pop-up menu.

  4. When the Add Modifier subpanel appears, press the button with the cube, below Object:. Choose Door Boolean from the pop-up menu. Set the Operation: to Difference as shown on the right of the following graphic.

  5. You have just made the door frame.

  6. Press the Add Modifier button with theLMB 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 following screenshot.

  8. You have just made the rear portals...

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