Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "Reopen the Gidiosaurus_base_mesh.blend file."

Sequences of operations, such as for example adding nodes to the Node Editor or objects in the 3D view, are written as follows: "Shift + A | Texture | Voronoi Texture."

This means that you need to press the Shift and the A keys at the same time, then move the mouse pointer on the Texture item in a pop-up menu and click or select the desired final item.

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "Under the Empty subpanel, click on the Open button."

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.