lecture 2 - using blender

LECTURE 2 - notes 

Materials tab - specify colours and simulate texture 

Cycles render - renders quickly 

Diffuse colour - change colour of object

Use nodes - textures - you can download presets 

Shift A - Add plane 

New material - glass - can now see reflection of cube in the glass

Shaders - the surface and how it reacts to the light 

2 textures on 1 object 

Selected object

Default to compositing window 

Then click materials icon in middle of page

Shift A - shader - select a texture 

Click green dot and drag it to the object 

Mixed shader node 

Shift A - shader - mix shader 

Attach both textures to the mix shader  

Attach mix shader to the object 

Add image 

Shift A - texture - image texture 

Connect colour nodes

Open image 

Shift A - input - texture coordinate 

Connect generator node to vector node 

Render 

Click triangle in  top right hand corner of screen 

Click plus button on UV maps

Connect UV node to vector node 

Try on sphere 

May look flat 

Image texture - change flat to sphere 

SCULPTING 

Tab - Edit mode - object will go orange 

Can edit shape by faces or vertices 

Bottom of the window next to global

3 boxes for face or vertices selection 

Select one and then you can move the shape

Face select mode and Subdivision 

Select face and press W

You can subdivide multiple times 

But be careful as it will take longer to render 

Easy art:

Subdivide it

Mesh tools - randomise a couple times 

Explosion:

Start with object 

Click triangle with 3 dots in top right

Click shape Keys 

Click plus button- first key

Click plus button again to add a second key

Press tab 

Press randomise(in mesh tools) a few times 

 You can Drag value slider up and it will merge the two Keyss

Hover over value bar and press "I" which inserts key frame 

Move slider to end of video 

Change the value again 

Hover over value and press "I" again to add the second key frame 

Can change the value multiple times and add several key frames to make it pulsate 

E- extrude the face 

Armature - Skelton of the object 

Can subdivide to make the skeleton more complex and can subdivide the faces to move the object more 

Start with default object 

View(bottom left) front 

Press Z - wireframe mode 

Left click bottom of cube 

Shift A - amature - single bone 

Press S and scale it to the top of the box 

Press tab - edit mode 

Select all of the bone

Press W and subdivide the bone a couple times 

Come out of edit mode and Click cube and then go back into edit mode to subdivide the faces 

Come out of edit mode 

Right click the cube 

Then shift click the armature 

Then ctrl P - click set parent 2 with automatic weights 

Change object mode to pose mode (bottom left) 

Then alter the bones