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Main Author:	VanGumster, Jason (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Indianapolis, Ind. Wiley 2011
Edition:	2. ed.
Subjects:	Blender > Programm Blender
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Physical Description:	XV, 430 S. Ill. 1 DVD-ROM (12 cm)
ISBN:	9780470400180 9780470584460

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adam_text	Table of Contents Introduction ................................................................. 7 About This Book ..............................................................................................2 Conventions Used in This Book .....................................................................2 Foolish Assumptions .......................................................................................3 How This Book Is Organized ..........................................................................4 Part I: Wrapping Your Brain Around Blender ....................................4 Part II: Creating Detailed 3D Scenes ....................................................5 Part HI: Get Animated! ...........................................................................5 Part IV: Sharing Your Work with the World .......................................5 Part V: The Part of Tens ........................................................................5 Icons Used in This Book .................................................................................6 Where to Go from Here ...................................................................................6 Part 1: Wrapping ¡/our Brain Around Stender .................. 7 Chapter 1: Discovering Blender ..................................9 Getting to Know Blender ................................................................................9 Discovering Blender s Beginnings ...............................................................10 Making Open Movies and Games .................................................................12 Getting to Know the Interface ......................................................................13 An interface that stays out of your way ............................................15 Resizing an area ...................................................................................16 Splitting and removing areas ..............................................................16 Duplicating an area to a new window ...............................................17 Maximizing an area ..............................................................................18 Chapter 2: Understanding How Blender Thinks ...................19 Looking at Editor Types ................................................................................19 Working with the Properties Editor ............................................................21 Customizing Blender to Fit You ...................................................................23 Using screen layout presets ...............................................................24 Setting user preferences .....................................................................26 Using custom event maps ...................................................................33 Navigating in Three Dimensions ..................................................................36 Orbiting, panning, and zooming the 3D View ...................................36 Changing views ....................................................................................37 Selecting objects ..................................................................................43 Taking advantage of the 3D cursor ....................................................43 Blender For Dummies, 2nd Edition New Features in Blender s 3D View Since 2.5............................................45 Quad View .............................................................................................45 Regions ..................................................................................................46 Don t know how to do something? Hooray for fully integrated search! ............................................................................48 Chapter 3: Getting Your Hands Dirty Working in Blender ..........49 Grabbing, Scaling, and Rotating ...................................................................49 Differentiating Between Coordinate Systems ............................................50 Transforming an Object by Using the 3D Manipulator .............................53 Switching manipulator modes ............................................................53 Using the manipulator .........................................................................54 Saving Time by Using Hotkeys .....................................................................56 Transforming with hotkeys ................................................................57 Hotkeys and coordinate systems .......................................................57 Numerical input ...................................................................................59 The Properties region .........................................................................59 Chapter 4: Working in Edit Mode and Object Mode ...............61 Making Changes by Using Edit Mode ..........................................................61 Distinguishing between Object mode and Edit mode .....................62 Selecting vertices, edges, and faces ..................................................63 Working with linked vertices ..............................................................65 Still Blender s No. 1 modeling tool: Extrude .....................................66 Creating a simple model with Extrude ..............................................70 Adding to a Scene ..........................................................................................72 Adding objects .....................................................................................72 Meet Suzanne, the Blender monkey ..................................................74 Joining and separating objects ..........................................................74 Creating duplicates and links .............................................................75 Discovering parents, children, and groups ......................................80 Saving, opening, and appending ........................................................84 Part 11: Creatine betaìted 3ΰ Scenes ...........................89 Chapter 5: Creating Anything You Can Imagine with Meshes .......91 Pushing Vertices ............................................................................................91 Working with Loops and Rings ....................................................................94 Understanding edge loops and face loops .......................................94 Selecting edge rings .............................................................................95 Creating new loops ..............................................................................% Simplifying Your Life As a Modeler with Modifiers ...................................98 Doing half the work (and still looking good!) with the Mirror modifier ........................................................................101 Table of Contents )Cl Smoothing things out with the Subdivision Surface modifier ......103 Using the power of Arrays ................................................................107 Sculpting Multiresolution Meshes .............................................................111 Something new: The Multiresolution modifier ............................... Ill Sculpting options ...............................................................................113 Practical Example: Modeling an Eye .........................................................119 Starting with a primitive ...................................................................119 Creating the pupil and iris ................................................................120 Taking a knife to your pupil ..............................................................122 Smoothing out the eye interior ........................................................123 Building the eye s exterior ................................................................124 Chapter 6: Using Blender s Nonmesh Primitives .................129 Using Curves and Surfaces .........................................................................129 Understanding the different types of curves .................................132 Working with curves ..........................................................................133 Understanding the strengths and limitations of Blender s surfaces ..........................................................................144 Using Meta Objects .....................................................................................145 Meta-wha? ...........................................................................................146 What meta objects are useful for .....................................................148 Adding Text ..................................................................................................149 Adding and editing text .....................................................................150 Changing fonts ....................................................................................153 Deforming text with a curve .............................................................155 Converting to curves and meshes ...................................................155 Chapter 7: Changing That Boring Gray Default Material ..........157 Playing with Materials .................................................................................157 Changing colors .................................................................................162 Adjusting shader values ....................................................................163 Reflection and transparency ............................................................166 Controlling how materials handle shadows ...................................169 Assigning multiple materials to different parts of a mesh ............170 Coloring Vertices with Vertex Paint ..........................................................172 Practical Example: Coloring the Eye .........................................................174 Setting up a Materials screen ...........................................................174 The easy part: Material slots ............................................................176 Getting more detailed with Vertex Paint ........................................181 Chapters: Giving Models Texture ..............................185 Adding Textures ..........................................................................................185 Using Procedural Textures .........................................................................187 Understanding Texture Mapping ...............................................................191 The Mapping panel ............................................................................191 The Influence panel ...........................................................................195 Blender For Dummies, 2nd Edition Unwrapping a Mesh .....................................................................................196 Marking seams on a mesh .................................................................196 Adding a test grid ...............................................................................197 Generating and editing UV coordinates ..........................................199 Painting Textures Directly on a Mesh .......................................................201 Baking Texture Maps from Your Mesh .....................................................203 Using UV Textures .......................................................................................205 Practical Example: Unwrapping Your Eye and Painting a Detailed Texture ....................................................................................206 Marking seams and unwrapping ......................................................206 Reducing texture stretching .............................................................207 Baking vertex colors ..........................................................................210 Assigning textures to your material ................................................212 Painting textures ................................................................................212 Chapter 9: Lighting and Environment ...........................215 Lighting a Scene ...........................................................................................215 Understanding a basic three-point lighting setup .........................216 Lighting for Speedy Renders ......................................................................228 Working with three-point lighting in Blender .................................230 Creating a fake Area light with buffered Spots ...............................231 Dealing with outdoor lighting ...........................................................232 Setting Up the World ...................................................................................234 Changing the sky to something other than dull gray ....................234 Understanding ambient occlusion ...................................................236 Adding mist and stars .......................................................................238 Creating sky textures .........................................................................241 Part Ш: Get Animated! ............................................ Chapter 10: Animating Objects ................................245 Working with Animation Curves ................................................................246 Customizing your screen layout for animation ..............................248 Working in the Graph Editor ............................................................249 Inserting keys .....................................................................................250 Editing motion curves .......................................................................252 Using Constraints Effectively .....................................................................255 The all-powerful Empty! ....................................................................257 Adjusting the influence of a constraint ...........................................258 Using vertex groups in constraints .................................................258 Copying the movement of another object ......................................259 Putting limits on an object ................................................................261 Tracking the motion of another object ...........................................263 Table of Contents Practical Example: Building and Animating a Simple Eye Rig ................264 Creating your rig ................................................................................265 Animating your eyes ..........................................................................269 Chapter 11: Rigging: The Art of Building an Animatable Puppet .. .273 Creating Shape Keys ....................................................................................273 Creating new shapes .........................................................................274 Mixing shapes .....................................................................................276 Knowing where shape keys are helpful ..........................................278 Adding Hooks ...............................................................................................278 Creating new hooks ...........................................................................278 Knowing where hooks are helpful ...................................................280 Using Armatures: Skeletons in the Mesh ..................................................280 Editing armatures ..............................................................................281 Putting skin on your skeleton ...........................................................290 Practical Example: Rigging Stickman ........................................................295 Building Stickman s centerline .........................................................295 Adding Stickman s appendages .......................................................296 Taking advantage of parenting and constraints ............................299 Comparing inverse kinematics and forward kinematics ..............303 Making the rig more user friendly ...................................................308 Chapter 12: Animating Object Deformations .....................311 Working with the Dopesheet ......................................................................311 Animating with Armatures .........................................................................314 Principles of animation worth remembering .................................315 Making sense of quaternions (or, Why are there four rotation curves?! ) .................................................................317 Copying mirrored poses ...................................................................318 Seeing the big picture with ghosting ...............................................320 Visualizing motion with paths ..........................................................321 Doing Nonlinear Animation ........................................................................322 Mixing actions to create complex animation .................................323 Taking advantage of looped animation ...........................................325 Chapter 13: Letting Blender Do the Work for You ................327 Using Particles in Blender ..........................................................................328 Knowing what particle systems are good for .................................329 Using force fields and collisions ......................................................332 Using particles for hair and fur ........................................................334 Giving Objects Some Jiggle and Bounce ...................................................337 Dropping Objects in a Scene with Rigid Body Dynamics .......................340 Simulating Cloth ...........................................................................................343 Splashing Fluids in Your Scene ..................................................................344 Blender For Dummies, 2nd Edition Partit/: Sharing ¡four Work With the World ................369 Chapter 14: Exporting and Rendering Scenes ....................351 Exporting to External Formats ...................................................................351 Rendering a Scene .......................................................................................352 Creating a still image .........................................................................353 Creating a finished animation ..........................................................356 Creating a sequence of still images for editing or compositing .....358 Chapter 15: Compositing and Editing ...........................359 Comparing Editing to Compositing ...........................................................359 Working with the Video Sequence Editor .................................................360 Adding and editing strips ..................................................................363 Adding effects .....................................................................................366 Rendering from the Video Sequence Editor ...................................368 Working with the Node-Based Compositor ..............................................369 Understanding the benefits of rendering in passes .......................370 Working with nodes ...........................................................................374 Discovering the nodes available to you ..........................................379 Rendering from the Node Compositor ............................................386 Part (/: The Part of Tens.. ..........................................387 Chapter 16: Ten Problems for New Users in Blender (And Ways Around Them) .....................................389 Auto Saves and Session Recovery Don t Work ........................................389 Blender s Interface Is Weird or Glitchy .....................................................390 A Notorious Black Stripe Appears on Models ..........................................391 Objects Go Missing ......................................................................................391 Edge Loop Select Doesn t Work .................................................................393 A Background Image Disappears ...............................................................393 Zooming Has Its Limits ...............................................................................393 Lost Simulation Data ...................................................................................394 Blender Doesn t Create Faces As Expected .............................................395 Disorientation in the 3D View ....................................................................396 Chapter 17: Ten Tips for Working More Effectively in Blender .....397 Use Tooltips and Integrated Search .........................................................397 Look at Models from Different Views ........................................................398 Lock a Camera to an Animated Character .......................... ......................398 Don t Forget about Add-Ons ......................................................................398 Name Everything .........................................................................................399 Table of Contents Use Layers Effectively .................................................................................399 Do Low-Resolution Test Renders ..............................................................400 Mind Your Mouse ........................................................................................401 Use Grease Pencil to Plan ...........................................................................402 Have Fun, but Take Breaks .........................................................................402 Chapter 18: Ten Excellent Community Resources ................403 Blender.org ...................................................................................................403 BlenderArtists.org .......................................................................................404 BlenderNation ..............................................................................................404 BlenderBasics.com ......................................................................................404 BlenderNewbies ...........................................................................................405 BlenderCookiexom .....................................................................................405 Blendswap ....................................................................................................405 Blenderart Magazine ...................................................................................405 Graphicall.org ..............................................................................................405 Blender IRC Channels on freenode.net .....................................................406 Appendix: About the ΰ(/ΰ .......................................... Index .......................................................................413
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