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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 – playing with the Blender windows


Now, we are going to discover the structure of the windows:

  1. Start Blender. In the largest Blender window, at the lower-left corner, there is a small button that looks similar to the button highlighted in the following screenshot. It has a white cube on it. This is the Current Editor Type button. Every window has this button, so you can change the type of editor that is in the window. The bar that the Current Editor Type button is on is called the Header.

  2. In the main 3D View window, click on the Current Editor Type button with the LMB, and the Editor Type menu pops up with the 17 different kinds of editors that you can display in that window, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. Scroll up the menu, as shown previously, and select Text Editor. The window changes and it is now blank. The Text Editor is for you to enter text, such as production notes, text for text objects, python code, and other uses.

  4. Now, go down to the window below the main...