Search icon CANCEL
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Your Cart (0 item)
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Save more on your purchases! discount-offer-chevron-icon
Savings automatically calculated. No voucher code required.
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Blender 3D Basics

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

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849516907
Length 468 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Tools
Arrow right icon
Toc

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 — scaling and aligning the template


The next step is to make sure that the template is properly scaled Blender scene, so that the units marked on the template are the same as an equal number of units in the Blender scene.

To do this, you will set the cube to the size of six Blender units. Next, you will adjust the template until the dimension marks—those two lines above and below the number 6 on the side-view template—align with the top and bottom of the cube.

  1. In the 3D View, select the cube. Scroll to the top of the 3D View Properties Panel so you can see the Transform subpanel. Set the Dimensions: to X: 6.00, Y: 6.00, Z: 6.00, the same way that you set the dimensions of reference blocks in Chapter 5,

  2. Press Numpad 3 to display the Right view.

  3. Scroll down to the Background Image subpanel of the 3D View Properties panel.

  4. Look in the panel where it says 6709_07_01.png, as shown in the following screenshot.

  5. Change the size of the background image by setting the value of Size: to...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime
Banner background image