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Blender 3D Incredible Models

By : Arijan Belec
Book Image

Blender 3D Incredible Models

By: Arijan Belec

Overview of this book

Blender is a massively popular and powerful 3D program, with versatile modeling abilities that make it a great way to enter the 3D modelling world. Blender 3D Incredible Models is an extensive guide for those new to hard-surface modeling with Blender, helping you understand the complete range of tools and features it offers and how to employ those efficiently to create realistic models. You’ll be led through progressively more challenging modeling projects— from an assault rifle and an army tank to a sci-fi spaceship model—giving you a glimpse of all the skills you’d need in Blender’s vast ecosystem of features and functionality, ranging from textures, rendering, and UV mapping to lighting, rigging, and beyond. Each engaging project builds upon the last until you’re equipped with everything you need to tackle your own modeling challenges, whatever they may be. By the end of this Blender book, you won’t just know how to create the models covered here, but you’ll be able to turn your own concepts and references into 3D Blender models too!
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction to Hard Surface Modeling
3
Part 2: Modeling an Assault Rifle
7
Part 3: Modeling a Sci-Fi Race Ship
10
Part 4: Modeling a T-72 Tank

Creating exhaust grills with arrays

Let’s move to the back of the hull. In the following steps, we will create exhaust grills using arrays:

  1. Create a simple frame at the far end of the tank and add details to it, as shown in Figure 8.46.

Figure 8.46 – Creating grills

  1. Add some basic shapes (namely, reshaped cubes) to form some bars inside the frame.

Figure 8.47 – The exhaust frame

  1. Create a long and thin shape in the frame and add an array to create the grills. Set the Relative Offset factor to 2.000 (or -2.000, depending on the direction).

Figure 8.48 – The grill array

  1. Repeat in the other direction to create a grid pattern.

Figure 8.49 – The grid

  1. Use the same technique to create some larger exhausts on the hull.

Figure 8.50 – Exhaust grills

The back of our hull now has exhaust...