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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 – creating a text object


Our first suggestion for a boat name is MySloop it's out of Papeete, Tahiti:

  1. Create a new file.

  2. Press the NumPad 7 key to get the Top view.

  3. Press X to delete the default cube.

  4. Press Shift + A and choose Text from the menu.

  5. Press the Tab key to go into Edit Mode.

  6. Press the Backspace key to delete the letters as shown here. On a Mac, use the Delete key.

  7. Type in MySloop, a carriage return, and Papeete.

  8. Press the Object Data button in the header of the Properties window. It's the button with the letter F on it.

  9. In the Geometry subpanel, set Modification: Extrude to 0.1 and set Bevel: Depth to 0.04, as shown in the following image.

  10. Press the MMB and rotate your view to see the text from front and back.

  11. In the Paragraph subpanel, change Spacing: Line: to 1.50, as shown here.

  12. Change Spacing: Letter: to 1.30, as shown next.

  13. Press the Center button under Align: as shown here.

  14. In the Font subpanel, click on the Shear: button and set the value to 0.300, and then press Enter...