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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 – reducing render times


The basic idea here is to reduce the workload. You want to turn off everything that you don't need:

  1. Move the mouse over the Timeline window and go to the Current Editor type button in the lower-left corner of the window.

  2. Select Text Editor from the menu, as you learned in Chapter 9, Finishing Your Sloop.

  3. Select Text in the Text Editor header and choose Create Text Block from the pop-up menu.

  4. At the top of the UV/Image window, where the image is rendered, you will see the time that it took to render the frame. In the Text Editor, note that time.

  5. In the Properties window header, select the Render button. It's the button with the still camera on it.

  6. In the Dimensions subpanel, make sure that the Resolution percentage is no higher than 25%.

  7. In Text Editor, type Reduced resolution from 100% to 25%.

  8. In the Properties window, the Dimensions subpanel sets the value of Frame Step under Frame Range to 2.

  9. Select the Frame Rate: button and choose Custom.

  10. Select the button...