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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

The key-function table

This table has functions you have learned and some you may find useful.

Key

Function

Mode

Tab

Pressing the Tab key toggles between the Edit mode and the Object mode

Ctrl + Tab

When you are in Edit Mode, this opens the Mesh Select Mode menu, allowing you to choose to work in vertex, edge, or face mode

Selection

A

Select/deselect all

B

Border select, use LMB while selecting

B

Border deselect, use MMB while deselecting

C

Circle select, use LMB while selecting

C

Circle deselect, use MMB while deselecting

Ctrl + LMB

Lasso select

Ctrl + Shift + LMB

Lasso deselect

+

Numpad plus sign used while doing circle select increases the size of the circle

-

NumPad minus sign used while doing circle select decreases the size of the circle

H

Hides selected vertices

Alt + H

Redisplays hidden vertices as selected vertices

Shift + H

Hides unselected vertices

L

Selects linked vertices

Transformation controls

Shift

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