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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 — using ANT Landscape to make the island


The ANT Landscape uses mathematical algorithms to create an infinite variety of surfaces, but by working in an ordered manner you can achieve the results you want:

  1. Select the Ocean with theRMB. Press M and 2 to move the Ocean to Layer 2.

  2. In the File menu at the upper-left corner of the Blender window, select User Preferences, as you did in Chapter 3, Controlling the Lamp, the Camera, and Animating Objects to install the animation player. The Blender User Preferences window will pop up.

  3. Select Addons from the Blender User Preferences menu. Scroll down and put a checkmark in the box for Add Mesh: ANT Landscape. Select Install Add-on from the header at the bottom of the menu as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. Press the X button at the upper right-hand corner of the Blender User Preferences window and close the window. If you are using a Mac or Linux, use the red dot on the left-hand corner of the Blender User Preferences window.

  5. Press...

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