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Discover Blender and Computer Graphics |
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See examples of images made with Blender and find out how to view some fantastic video demonstrations |
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Start your engine for the test drive and begin learning the controls |
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Learn about the screen arrangement and windows and how to move things around, and importantly how to start over when you mess up. Believe me, you will |
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Chapter 2 Playing with Fire |
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Learn to add objects to a scene, and set them alight by playing an animation. This should kindle your imagination without burning your fingers |
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Blow something up with a quick method |
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Get introduced to the Properties Window, the control room for Blender, and add color to the world |
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Learn how to turn Gravity off |
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Chapter 4 Exploding the Long Way |
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Take a quick look at explosions and how they are controlled by Particle Systems with the use of Modifiers |
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Start with a basic shape and change it into something interesting |
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Use the Manipulation Widget |
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Learn about Extrusion and Modifiers |
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Meet Suzanne and see how she is constructed |
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Change a Sphere into an Aircraft |
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Chapter 6 Saving Your Work |
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Understand how to save your work using the File Browser Window in Blender and how this relates to Windows File Explorer |
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Find out what a File Tree looks like |
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Add Color to your world with Materials and see the effect of lighting |
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Add surface lumps and bumps. Make a surface look like something else using an image |
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Use an image to make lumps and bumps and add a background |
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Chapter 9 Downloading and Using Models |
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Download a pre-made model and use it in your Blender Scene. See how a model is rigged and posed to suit what you want |
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Create circular objects with Blender's Spin Tool. Make a Screw |
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Make a Fluid Simulation with the Quick Fluid Tool |
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Animation is what you have been waiting for. Make your characters and objects move about |
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Have your model follow a Curve Path in your Scene |
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Learn how to shape the Curve Path |
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Make the Camera follow the moving object |
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Use one object to paint another object |
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Learn about Animation Sequence time |
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Make animated waves on a surface |
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Give your objects in a scene real world physical characteristics and have them interact with each other |
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This is the other bit you have been waiting for |
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Learn the fundamentals of making computer games with the Blender Game Engine |
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Try out an animation project combining several Blender features to make something fly, blow up, and catch on fire |
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If you didn't know how, this is where you find out how to download and install Blender on your Windows Computer |
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Chapter 18 Blender Overhaul |
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Look under the hood and discover more about Blender |
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See a summary of the Blender windows, which gives you an insight into what you can do with the program |
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When you get stuck into Blender and begin to tinker inside you will need a manual to help you, and tutorials to guide you |
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