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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

Always have a backup file


Computers being what they are, it's always good to have a backup file. You have learned to save files on your own, but you wouldn't be the first person to get working in Blender and discover that the hours flew by and you forgot to save the file on which you are working. If that should happen, remember the upcoming tip.

Tip

The auto backup feature

Blender helps you with this by automatically making a backup file often. The default time is every five minutes. These files are tucked away in your Documents and Settings folder. The filename is a number with a .blend extension. It will be in the directory, Documents and Settings\"Your user name"\Local Settings\temp. Of course, your username is whatever name the computer has for you as a user. This will be slightly different for Mac and Linux users, so pay attention to where the installation program loads it.

After you have used Blender a little, you may notice files labeled .blend1 and .blend2. Blender creates these when...