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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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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

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 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.
    Time for action – creating a text object
  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,...
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