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Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide Second Edition

You're reading from   Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide Second Edition A quick and easy-to-use guide to create 3D modeling and animation using Blender 2.7

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783984909
Length 526 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gordon Fisher Gordon Fisher
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Preface 1. Introducing Blender and Animation FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Comfortable Using the 3D View 3. Controlling the Lamp, the Camera, and Animating Objects 4. Modeling with Vertices, Edges, and Faces 5. Building a Simple Boat 6. Making and Moving the Oars 7. Planning Your Work, Working Your Plan 8. Making the Sloop 9. Finishing Your Sloop 10. Modeling Organic Forms, Sea, and Terrain 11. Improving Your Lighting and Camera Work 12. Rendering and Compositing A. Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – creating objects for use in Boolean operations

While preparing to cut holes out of the cabin, you must first create the shape of those holes. Follow the listed steps:

  1. With the cursor over the 3D View header, press A to deselect the cabin.
  2. In the Layers button of the 3D View header, select Layer 1 with the LMB, then select Layer 2 using Shift + LMB. So, you can see the hull of the sloop as well as the cabin and Layer 2 is the active layer.
  3. Press 3 on the NumPad for the Right view.
  4. Press Shift + S. Select Cursor to Center from the menu.
  5. Put the 3D Cursor in the center of the rear panel of the cabin, as shown in the following screenshot:
    Time for action – creating objects for use in Boolean operations
  6. Press Shift + A, and make Cylinder from the Mesh menu.
  7. In Tool Shelf, set the number of Vertices to 18. Set the Cap Fill Type to Triangle Fan.
  8. Check the Align to View checkbox so that it is properly oriented.
  9. Press S, 0.8, and Enter to scale the cylinder down in size.
  10. Press S, X, 7, and Enter to make the cylinder longer than the cabin's...
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