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Blender 3D Incredible Machines

You're reading from   Blender 3D Incredible Machines Design, model, and texture complex mechanical objects in Blender

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785282010
Length 392 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Allan Brito Allan Brito
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Christopher Kuhn Christopher Kuhn
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Sci-Fi Pistol - Creating the Basic Shapes 2. Sci-Fi Pistol - Adding Details FREE CHAPTER 3. Texturing and Rendering Your Sci-Fi Pistol 4. Spacecraft – Creating the Basic Shapes 5. Spacecraft - Adding Details 6. Spacecraft – Materials, Textures, and Rendering 7. Modeling Your Freestyle Robot 8. Robot - Freestyle Rendering 9. Low-Poly Racer – Building the Mesh 10. Low-Poly Racer – Materials and Textures

Adding the cockpit


One of the last major areas we need to do is our front window:

There are a number of ways we could do this, but let's try something a bit different. We can just duplicate the ring of edges that makes up the window area:

Then, we'll scale those duplicate edges up just a little:

With the Inset and Extrude tools, you can now create a nice border for your window area:

And we'll just bevel this so that it looks a little nicer:

Then, I'll delete the back of the window faces and add a new object to serve as my cockpit:

With a little beveling and extrusion, we can make it look unique:

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