You're reading from 3D Environment Design with Blender Enhance your modeling, texturing, and lighting skills to create realistic 3D scenes

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803235851

Length 344 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Blender

Concepts

Animation

Authors (2):

Abdelilah Hamdani

Carlos Barreto

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Turn a Real Reference into a Realistic 3D Scene in Blender

2. Chapter 1: Most Common Modeling Mistakes That Prevent You from Achieving Photorealism FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: The Basics of Realistic Texturing in Blender

4. Chapter 3: Efficient Unwrapping and Texturing in Blender

5. Chapter 4: Creating Realistic Natural Plants in Blender

6. Chapter 5: Achieve Photorealistic Lighting in Your Environment with Blender

7. Part 2: Creating Realistic Landscapes in Blender

8. Chapter 6: Creating Realistic Landscapes in Blender

9. Chapter 7: Creating and Animating Realistic, Natural-Looking Water

10. Chapter 8: Creating Procedural Mud Material

11. Chapter 9: Texturing the Landscape with Mud Material

12. Part 3: Creating Natural Assets

13. Chapter 10: Creating Natural Assets: Rock

14. Chapter 11: Creating Realistic Flowers in Blender

15. Part 4: Rendering Epic Landscape Shots

16. Chapter 12: Using Particle System to Scatter Objects in Blender

17. Chapter 13: Finalizing the Landscape Scene – Lighting, Rendering, and Compositing

18. Index

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Designing a buttercup

Let’s start by creating the buttercup petals. Since this is a real flower, we must use a real reference in order to make the final result accurate. We’ll be using this image reference of a buttercup flower:

Figure 11.1 – Buttercup flower petals

You can download this buttercup flower image reference from this link: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/3D-Environment-Design-with-Blender/blob/main/chapter-11/Flower-Petals.jpg

After downloading this reference, press 7 while on the 3D Viewport to go to the Top Orthographic view and simply drag and drop this reference image into the 3D Viewport:

Figure 11.2 – Dragging the flower reference in the 3D Viewport

This way, we’ll have the image reference laid out. Press N to access the Transform panel and make sure that the Location and Rotation values are set to 0 so that we can put the flower reference in the center of the grid...

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