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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 – assembling a house from a kit

I included a kit for you to make houses. I used this kit to make the boathouse and sample houses. The kit is modular. There are eight wall sections that you can mix and match. The following steps will guide you while assembling a house from a kit:

  1. Open the 4909_10_Housekit.blend file.
  2. Read the instructions in the text included with this file.
  3. Look at all the wall sections available. Select them and use the offsets listed in the image in the bottom–right corner of the Blender window to guide you.
  4. In the UV/Image window, there are 0_View - Rear and 0_View - Front images with the placement info you need.

Creating trees with the Sapling addon

Blender has a great addon for generating trees. Better than the old days when you had to stick every leaf on a tree one by one. Be careful, Sapling can make a lot of faces very quickly. The Info window header at the top gives you a read out of how many vertices, edges, and faces you have. Watch it...

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