Blender 3D: Noob to Pro

BlenderDocumentation4 About This Book Blender 3D: Noob to Pro is a product of shared effort by numerous team members and anonymous editors. Its purpose is to teach people how to create three dimensional computer graphics using Blender, a free software application. This book is intended to be used in conjunction with other on-line resources that complement it: Other Blender-related Wikibooks on topics such as scripting and creating games; The Blender Wiki for technical documentation; User forums, such as the Blender Artists Forum. While you can learn simply by reading the book, you'll get more out of the tutorials if you follow along. In order to do this, you'll need access to a computer with Blender installed. You can download Blender from the Blender Foundation's website; more detailed instructions are in the first module. Version compatibility: Blender is under continuous development, and most of the following tutorials do not apply to the current version of Blender. While you might find some individual tutorials still useful, this book should no longer be used as a general guide for learning Blender. Version-specific content should be tagged with a note that looks like this: 2.75 Overview The core of this book is a series of tutorials that increase in complexity, with later tutorials building on the preceding ones. While experienced users can skip ahead, beginners are urged to proceed through the tutorials in sequence. The tutorials in the core series are grouped into four units: Background — A basic orientation regarding: Computer graphics The Blender user interface (UI) Basic Modeling and Shading — Basic techniques for building and rendering 3D models Broadening Horizons Alternative modeling and rendering techniques Introductions to lighting, animation, and game creation Taking Off Scripting Advanced techniques for modeling, animation and game creation (Note: the Blender Game Engine is not available as of 2.8x onwards) Each unit is subdivided into sections, which are made up of modules. Three appendices are also provided: Reference Material — including: Frequently-Asked Questions Glossary General Advice — Tips to help you get the most out of Blender Miscellaneous Tutorials — Tutorials that aren't part of the core series == You Can Help! == Click "show" for details. You are strongly encouraged (read as begged) to contribute to this book! 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Table of Contents Unit 1: Background Knowing before Making  ⇐ START HERE /What Blender Can Do/ Section 1A: 3D Concepts /3D Geometry/ /Coordinate Transformations/ /Orthographic Views/ /Perspective Views/ /Coordinate Spaces in Blender/ Section 1B: User Interface (UI.) Overview /Keystroke, Button, and Menu Notation/ Non-standard Input Devices Operating System-specific Issues Blender User Interface /Blender Windowing System/ /User Preferences Windows/ /Properties Window/ /3D View Windows/ /Object Mode/ Unit 2: Basic Modeling and Shading Section 2A: Your First Mesh Models Meshes and Edit Mode /Normals and Shading/ /More Mesh Editing Techniques/ /Quickie Lighting/ /Quickie Model/ /Quickie Render/ Enter the World /Understanding the Camera/ /Improving Your House/ Section 2B: Smooth Meshes (Simple Person with a Hat) Extruding a Simple Person Smoothing Your Simple Person Improving Your Simple Person Spinning a Simple Hat Putting the Hat on the Person Section 2C: Materials and Textures Overview /Quickie Material/ Multiple Materials per Object Metal Versus Plastic /Texture Settings/ /Image Textures/ /Procedural Textures/ /Quickie Texture/ /Halo Materials/ Beyond Basics /Blender Memory Management/ Using Bones Mountains out of Molehills Modeling a Volcano Penguins from Spheres 75% 00:00, 13 sept 2015 (UTC) Dicing With Depth (Dice Modeling) /Model a Goblet/ /Model a Silver Goblet/ 75% 00:00, 13 sept 2015 (UTC) Model a Silver Goblet Another Way /Spin a goblet/ Light a Silver Goblet (Early look at lighting) /Simple Vehicle/ /Simple Vehicle: Wheel tutorial 1/ /Simple Vehicle: Wheel tutorial 2/ /Simple Vehicle: Seat/ /Simple Vehicle: Rocket Launcher/ /Simple Vehicle: Another Shooting Machine/ /Simple Vehicle: Body/ /Simple Vehicle: Some Assembly Required/ /Modeling a 3D Parachute in Blender/ /Model a Low Poly Head/ /Building a House/ /Pipe joints/ /Lighting Suzanne: Introductory one lamp lighting/ Curve and Path Modeling Overview Intro to Bézier Curves 75% 00:00, 13 sept 2015 (UTC) Bevelling a Curve NURBS Patches /Deforming Meshes using the Curve Modifier/ /The Empty Object/ Using Reference Photos /Background Images/ /Aligning Vertices with a Guide Image/ 75% 00:00, 13 sept 2015 (UTC) /Modeling a Wolf from Guide Images/ Using Bézier Curve to Model a 3D logo from a 2D logo 75% 20:00, 11 sept 2015 (UTC) Further Materials and Textures Subsurface Scattering Ray Tracing Using Textures 25% 20:00, 11 sept 2015 (UTC) /Using a texture to make a material partially transparent/ 50% 20:00, 11 sept 2015 (UTC) /Creating Basic Seawater/ 25% 20:00, 11 sept 2015 (UTC) /Mountains Out Of Molehills 2/ 25% 20:00, 11 sept 2015 (UTC) /Basic Carpet Texture/ 25% 20:00, 11 sept 2015 (UTC) /The Rusty Ball/ Creating Pixar-looking eyes 25% 20:00, 11 sept 2015 (UTC) /Procedural Eyeball/ /Putting It All Together: A Dragon!/ Unit 3: Broadening Horizons The UV/Image Editor UV Maps - Pasting photos to 3D surfaces /UV Map Basics/ /Realistic Eyes In Blender/ 75% 9:00, 20 sept 2015 (UTC) Lighting /Beginning Lighting/ /Understanding Real Lights/ /Understanding Blender Lights/ /Basic Lighting Rigs/ Faked Global Illumination with Blender internal 50% 9:00, 4 dec 2015 (UTC) Practicing Good Parenting Basic Animation Overview Introduction to Keyframing /The Ways of the Animator/ /Animation Editors/ Introducing the Graph Editor Animation Rendering Lattice Modifier 50% 19:16, 2 Feb 2016 (UTC) Bouncing Ball with Lattice 75% 17:26, 6 March 2016 (UTC) Creating Basic Water Animation Flying Through a Canyon Using the Sequencer to Compile Frames into an Animation /Further Rendering Options/ Particle Systems Overview Fire 50% 17:26, 6 March 2016 (UTC) Fur 75% 17:26, 6 March 2016 (UTC) /Fireworks/ 25% 17:26, 6 March 2016 (UTC) /Particles forming Shapes/ 75% 17:26, 6 March 2016 (UTC) /Billboard Animation/ 75% 17:26, 6 March 2016 (UTC) Soft Bodies /Soft Body Animation/ 75% 11:15, 8 March 2016 (UTC) /Simple Cloth Animation/ Soft Body with Wind 75% 11:15, 8 March 2016 (UTC) Blender Game Engine Blender Game Engine Basics- Rolling Ball 75% 22:05, 13 March 2016 (UTC) Platformer: Controls and Movement 75% 22:05, 13 March 2016 (UTC) Maze: Force and Multiple Levels 75% 22:05, 13 March 2016 (UTC) Platformer: Improving the Physics 75% 22:05, 13 March 2016 (UTC) How to Make an Executable 50% 22:05, 13 March 2016 (UTC) Build a Skybox 75% 22:05, 13 March 2016 (UTC) Basic Mouse Pointer 25% 22:05, 13 March 2016 (UTC) /Text in BGE/ 75% 22:05, 13 March 2016 (UTC) Platformer: Creating the Engine with Python 75% 22:05, 13 March 2016 (UTC) Unit 4: Taking Off with Advanced Tutorials Python Scripting Introduction Anatomy Of An Addon A User Interface For Your Addon Adding A Custom Property A Separately Installable Addon Object, Action, Settings Advanced Modeling Overview High Dynamic Range imaging (HDRi) 75% 17:13, 23 April 2016 (UTC) /Creating a Light Probe/ 50% 17:13, 23 April 2016 (UTC) Landscape Modeling with Heightmaps 75% 17:13, 23 April 2016 (UTC) /How to Do Procedural Landscape Modeling/ 75% 17:13, 23 April 2016 (UTC) /Landscape Modeling I: Basic Terrain/ 75% 17:13, 23 April 2016 (UTC) /Landscape Modeling II: Texture Stenciling/ 75% 17:13, 23 April 2016 (UTC) /Landscape Modeling III: Exporting as a Heightmap/ 75% 17:13, 23 April 2016 (UTC) Advanced Materials and Textures Bump Mapping 75% 17 may 2016 (UTC) Normal Mapping Texture Normals 75% 17 may 2016 (UTC) Color Map Normals 75% 17 may 2016 (UTC) Nodes Introduction Texture Nodes Material Nodes 75% 24 July 2016 (UTC) Compositing Further Compositing: A Portal Effect Advanced Rendering Introduction to Cycles A Glass Material in Cycles Dealing with Fireflies in Cycles Fireflies in Cycles, Continued Procedural Eyeball in Cycles Introduction to Freestyle Advanced Animation Overview Introduction 50% 28 July 2016 (UTC) Guided Tour: Armature Object 50% 28 July 2016 (UTC) Armature Object in Object Mode 75% 28 July 2016 (UTC) Armature Object in Edit Mode 75% 28 July 2016 (UTC) Armature Object in Pose mode 75% 28 July 2016 (UTC) Mesh Object Connection between Armature and Mesh 75% 28 July 2016 (UTC) Envelope 75% 28 July 2016 (UTC) Vertex Groups & Weight Paint 75% 28 July 2016 (UTC) Shape Keys 75% 28 July 2016 (UTC) Lip-Sync with Shape Keys75% 28 July 2016 (UTC) Constraints75% 28 July 2016 (UTC) Copy Location75% 28 July 2016 (UTC) Copy Rotation75% 28 July 2016 (UTC) Track-To 75% 28 July 2016 (UTC) Floor 25% 28 July 2016 (UTC) Locked Track 25% 28 July 2016 (UTC) Follow Path Stretch-To 75% 28 July 2016 (UTC) IK Solver 75% 28 July 2016 (UTC) Timeline Window 25% 28 July 2016 (UTC) Graph Editor 25% 28 July 2016 (UTC) Dope Sheet 25% 28 July 2016 (UTC) NLA Editor 50% 28 July 2016 (UTC) Introduction To NLA Editor 75% 28 July 2016 (UTC) Working Example: Bob 25% 28 July 2016 (UTC) Building the Rig 25% 28 July 2016 (UTC) Deform the Mesh 25% 28 July 2016 (UTC) Create a Walk Cycle 25% 28 July 2016 (UTC) Working example: Piston, Rod and Crank 50% 28 July 2016 (UTC) Working example: Cutting Through Steel50% 28 July 2016 (UTC) Advanced Game Engine Overview Advanced Game Engine Techniques (GUI) Creating Pop-Up Menus 75% 29 July 2016 (UTC) Creating Dropping Menus 75% 29 July 2016 (UTC) The "5-Layer" Button25% 29 July 2016 (UTC) Creating Object Outlines25% 29 July 2016 (UTC) Advanced Game Engine Techniques (Python) Creating A "HUD" /Hacking Blender/ Introduction to Game Engine Source 75% 29 July 2016 (UTC) Appendices Reference Material /Glossary/ Frequently Asked Questions 50% 19:16, 12 May 2009 (UTC) /Tutorial Links List/ /Hotkeys/ /Output Formats/ /Image Portfolio/ /Blender Glossary/ 25% 19:16, 12 May 2009 (UTC) Materials Directory: Every Material Known To Man 50% 19:16, 12 May 2009 (UTC) /Sources of free 3D models/ - Sources of free 3D models for additional study All Blueprints Links – blueprints from all over the Web /Materials, Textures, Photos/ - Sources of free materials, textures and photos Advice General advice: /Asking for Help/ Tips for a Successful Project 50% 19:16, 12 May 2009 (UTC) Modeling Realistically 50% 19:16, 12 May 2009 (UTC) /Modeling tips/ 50% 19:16, 12 May 2009 (UTC) Performance tips (for making Blender run faster): /Cheat the 3D/ 50% 19:16, 12 May 2009 (UTC) /Performance vs. Quality/ 25% 19:16, 12 May 2009 (UTC) Miscellaneous Tutorials This is our attic, mostly tutorials that could be useful to some extent if they would be revamped completely, but are of little use at the moment. If you can contribute to some of them, go ahead and rewrite them to your liking! /Modeling a Gingerbread Man/ 75% 19:16, 12 May 2009 (UTC) /Modeling a simple space-ship/ /Create an animated GIF wallpaper (Blender/GIMP)/ /Part 1 - Preparing the Scene/ /Creating Weapons based on 2D Images/ 25% 19:16, 12 May 2009 (UTC) Modeling with Meta Balls 75% 19:16, 07 May 2010 (UTC) /Match Moving/ 25% 19:16, 12 May 2009 (UTC) Match Moving/Motion Tracking with Icarus and Blender 75% 19:16, 12 May 2009 (UTC) /Create a Clayman/ 00% 19:16, 12 May 2009 (UTC) /Organic Modeling/ 25% 19:16, 12 May 2009 (UTC) /Understanding the Fluid Simulator/ 50% 17:06, 4 January 2010 (UTC) /Creating a jewel in Blender/ /Modeling a picture/ image: 00%.svg /Modeling with the Spin Tool/ /Spin Tool Introduction/ /Illustrative Example: Model a Wine Glass/ /Creating Ogg-Theora movies using Blender/ /Creating animated GIFs using Blender and Gimp/ /3D Tiling Backgrounds For The Web/ 100% 19:16, 12 May 2009 (UTC) Cool Things That Aren't That Obvious in Blender /Troubleshooting/ Common Technical Issues and What to do About Them /Creating Blender Libraries/ 50% 19:16, 12 May 2009 (UTC) /Add some depth with stereo/ Ways to create a "fluffy" effect (materials and lights) /Human Body/ 00% 19:16, 12 May 2009 (UTC) /Rendering Information/ 00% 19:16, 12 May 2009 (UTC) /Using Blender Libraries/ 00% 19:16, 12 May 2009 (UTC) /Beginning Modeling Final Project/ 50% 19:16, 12 May 2009 (UTC) /Using Inkscape to make advanced Bezier curves/25% 1:18, 28 July 2010 (UTC) Light Mapping 00% 19:16, 12 May 2009 (UTC) /Platonic Solids/ /Polygonal Modeling/ /Box Modeling/ /Illustrative example: Model a Chair (Swan Chair)/ /Model a Chair-Preparations/ /Model a Chair-The Seat/ /Model a Chair-The Feet/ /Illustrative Example: Modeling a Simple Human Character/ /Modeling a Human Character - Preparations/ /Modeling a Human Character - Modeling/ /Polygon by Polygon modeling/ /Animation Notes and FAQ/ Customization /Mist - Make Objects Opaque/ Additional Resources The Blender Reference Manual for the latest release Blender 3D: MemoBook Blender 3D Open source software B 75% ca:Blender 3D: novell a professional de:Blender Dokumentation es:Blender 3D: novato a profesional fr:Blender 3D gl:Blender 3D: de novato a profesional he:Blender 3D ממתחיל למתקדם ko:블렌더_3D_배우기 pt:Tornando-se profissional em Blender 3D ru:Blender 3D/Шаг за шагом tr:Blender 3D: Noob to Pro zh:Blender 3D：从入门到精通