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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 – pressing Ctrl + LMB for Lasso Selection


Unlike the other selection methods, the Lasso Selection tool is not started with a key command, but requires a combination of a key command and the mouse button.

  1. If needed, press the A key once or twice so that everything is deselected.

  2. Press the Ctrl button and hold it down. Hold the LMB down, and drag the cursor around the screen. When you have put the border around the vertices you want to select, release the LMB.

  3. Press the Ctrl button and the Shift button and hold them down. Hold down the LMB while you drag the cursor over the vertices you have already selected.

What just happened?

You learned to do a lasso selection by holding down the Ctrl button and the LMB while moving the cursor around the vertices that you want to select. Pressing the Shift button and the Ctrl button while holding down the LMB deselects anything within the lasso area.

Tip

A warning about Ctrl + LMB

You need to be careful to not hold down the Ctrl key, and...

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