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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 – displaying aliasing


The best way to understand aliasing is to see it using the following steps:

  1. Create a new file in Blender.

  2. Press F12.

  3. Press Ctrl + MMB and use the mouse to zoom into the rendered image so that you can see only the corner of the cube closest to you. It should look like the following image on the left.

  4. In the Anti-Aliasing subpanel of the Properties window, uncheck the Anti-Aliasing checkbox.

  5. Press F12.

  6. Now, what you see looks like the right half of the following image, with a jagged line where different surfaces meet.

What just happened?

When you unchecked the Anti-Aliasing checkbox and rendered the cube, the three sides of the cube you could see were different shades, and the edge between them was jagged with no shading, as shown on the right. These jagged lines are called Jaggies and should be avoided. When you turned back on the Anti-Aliasing, the edges are less jagged, with lots of interim shades at the edges, as shown on the left. This looks cleaner to...