The Official Blender 2.0 Guide

by Roosendaal, Ton; Wartmann, Carsten

• ISBN13: 9780761535133
• ISBN10: 0761535136
• Edition: CD
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Cengage Learning Ptr

Summary

This book is intended as a travel guide, an atlas to the Blender World. Everything you need to bring your creative ideas to fruition is inside. Developed originally as an in-house tool for a leading European animation studio, Blender is capable of creating broadcast-quality videos and has been used in hundreds of professional productions for major corporations. Find out how you can use the Blender software to create professional 3D graphics packages at a fraction of the cost and size of comparable products. Explore Blender's versatile animation system, contemporary modeling principles, advanced rendering tools, deformation tools, inverse kinematics, and post-production editor. Soon you'll be creating commercials and other broadcast-quality content, as well as multimedia and 3D game content.

Table of Contents

Part A / Introduction

About this book

Quickstart

Start your engines

Load a scene

A first render

Adding a object

Position the sphere

Add a material

Texture

Simple animation

Rendering

Using Blender

The interface

The mouse

ToolBox and menus

Windows

Screens

Scenes

Setting up your personal environment

Navigating in 3D

Objects

Selecting of objects

Manipulating objects

EditMode

Part B / Model

Mesh modelling

Basic objects

EditMode

Smoothing and autosmooth

Proportional editing tool

Extrude

Spin and SpinDup

Screw

Mesh intersection

Noise

Warp tool

S-Meshes

Metaballs

Curves and surfaces

Curves

A logo with curves

Surfaces

Text

Special modelling techniques

Dupliverts

Dupliframes

Modelling with animation

Modelling with lattices

Part C / Render

Materials and textures

Light and material settings

Radiosity

Solid and hollow glass

Rippled water

Halomaterial and lensflares

Multimaterial

Textures

Image Texture

Texture with the UV-Editor

Lighting

Light in Blender

Light and shadow

Volumetric lighting

Part D / Animation

Animation

Keyframe animation

Animated materials

Path animation

TimelPO

Lattice animation

Vertexkeys

IKA and skeletons

The camera

Rendering

Sequence editor tutorial

Particle effects

A first particle system

Rendering a particle system

Making fire with particles

A simple explosion

Fireworks

A shoal of fish

Static particles

Python scripting

Part E / Reference

The interface

Blender windows

InfoWindow

FileWindow

3DWindow

IpoWindow

SequenceWindow

OopsWindow

TextWindow

SoundWindow

ImageWindow

ImageSelectWindow

AnimPlaybackWindow

The buttons

ButtonsWindow

ViewButtons

LampButtons

MaterialButtons

TextureButtons

AnimButtons

RealTimeButtons

EditButtons

WorldButtons

Paint/Face Buttons

RadiosityButtons

ScriptButtons

DisplayButtons

Appendix

Installation

Glossary