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Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By : Gordon Fisher
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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 a texture to the seats


Now, you've added a material to the boat. Next, you will add a wood texture to the seats and learn a new panel in the Properties window:

  1. Press Tab to go into Object Mode, and select the seats with the RMB.

  2. Add a new material slot as you did when you made the Hull material. Name it Seats.

  3. Go up to the header of the Properties window, and select the Textures button. It has a red and white checkerboard on it, and it is next to the Materials button. It's highlighted in blue, as shown on the top of the next image.

  4. Add a new texture by clicking on the button called New, as shown at the bottom of the following screenshot:

  5. Where the New button was, it now says Texture. Click on the word Texture, and change it to Seat Texture. Press Enter when you are done.

  6. Go to the Chapter 5/Images directory of the download pack, and choose 4909_05_37.png. The images may be in with the Blender code. 4909_05_37.png is a wood texture. Copy the file to your Image directory...