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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 – joining the Blender windows

In addition to creating new windows, you can remove any window. Blender windows are easy to remove. The steps are as follows:

  1. Bring the cursor over the upper-left window, and then the cursor over the diagonal lines at the lower-left corner of that window.
  2. Hold down the LMB while you move the cursor down towards the window below it. The window below becomes darker and there is a light gray arrow pointing into that window.
  3. Continue to hold down the LMB and move the cursor up to the original window; it becomes darker and has an arrow pointing into it, as shown in the following screenshot. Whichever window is darker and has the arrow will disappear when you release the mouse button.
    Time for action – joining the Blender windows
  4. If you find you don't want the window to disappear, just move the cursor into another window besides those two. The arrow will go away and you can release the mouse button without any changes happening.

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Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Published in: Aug 2014
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ISBN-13: 9781783984909
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