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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 — copying keyframes to make a rowing cycle


Everybody likes to save work. Now that you have made a single rowing cycle, you can just copy it and move the copy down the timeline for a smooth flowing animation:

  1. Use the Current Editor Type button at the lower left corner of the Timeline window, which is below the 3D View, to change Timeline to Graph Editor in the window. Open the window up vertically so you can use it more easily. Move Current Frame Indicator to frame 84. You can see what frame you are on in the lower left corner of the 3D View window.

  2. Using theRMB and Shift+RMB keys, select both oars and both oarlocks.

  3. Use Ctrl+MMB so you can see all the F-Curves as shown in the next screenshot.

  4. With the cursor over the Graph Editor, press A to deselect all the keyframes. Use Border Select to choose all the keyframes between frame 26 and frame 58 as shown in the following screenshot. You can see that all the keyframes from frame 26 on are highlighted.

  5. Move the Current Frame Indicator...

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