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Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By : Gordon Fisher
Book Image

Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By: Gordon Fisher

Overview of this book

This book teaches you how to model a nautical scene, complete with boats and water, and then add materials, lighting, and animation. It demystifies the Blender interface and explains what each tool does so that you will be left with a thorough understanding of 3D. This book starts with an introduction to Blender and some background on the principles of animation, how they are applied to computer animation, and how these principles make animation better. Furthermore, the book helps you advance through various aspects of animation design such as modeling, lighting, camera work, and animation through the Blender interface with the help of several simple projects. Each project will help you practice what you have learned and do more advanced work in all areas.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
3
Controlling the Lamp, the Camera, and Animating Objects
Index

Time for action – adding trees to the landscape


Like ANT Landscape, Sapling uses mathematical algorithms to create organic forms. This is called procedural modeling. You'll step through the menus to make a tree:

  1. Open the default Blender startup file.

  2. In the File menu in the upper-left corner of the Blender window, select User Preferences, as you did earlier in this chapter to use the ANT Landscape addon.

  3. The Blender User Preferences window will pop up.

  4. Select Addons from the Blender User Preferences menu. Select Add Curve from the left-hand menu. Put a checkmark in the box for Add Curve and select Sapling in the right-hand menu.

  5. Close the User Preferences Window.

  6. Delete the default cube.

  7. Press Shift + A, and select Curve and then Add Tree from the menus.

  8. Press 1 on the NumPad to get the Front view. Press 5 on the NumPad to get Ortho mode. Press Shift + MMB and move the tree into view. Pull the right-hand side of the Tool Shelf to the right so that you can see the full text of the buttons. Move the...