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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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Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
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 Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – fixing Suzanne's eye


Small mistakes happen to the best of modelers. It's good to know how to look at the file and figure out what the problem is so that you can modify the object and fix the problem:

  1. Save a copy of the Suzanne file using the Save As command in the File menu, but increment it, as you learned in the previous chapter, so that you have the original and a copy that is at the current state. This is just to preserve your work, in case you need to go back.

  2. The first thing to check is whether there are two vertices in the same location.

  3. Press G, then Y, and move the eye out in front of Suzanne's face again. While you move it, press the Ctrl button. Make sure that it is far enough from front of her face that the eye does not overlap her skin at all. This time, press the LMB to drop it there.

  4. Press A to deselect all the vertices.

  5. Using the vertex select, click the RMB several times on the vertex that seems to be in both the eye and head. Do you see changes similar to the...

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