Week 02: Blender

The opening screen has your working cube, a camera and a light source. The set up reminds me of stage commands.

• delete objects from scene on right or by clicking on the object and choosing delete

Commands

• number pad change view
• shift + scroll to move around
• scroll to zoom
• move object with arrows by clicking on object and moving
  • hold x, y, or z keys to constrain movement to corresponding axis
• origin, rotation point, right click on object to set origin

Edit Mode

On the top left there are selections for:

• vertex: select single node
• edge: select an edge
• face: select face

We played around with editing the vertex, edge, and face selections.

Top right buttons:

• toggle x-ray, looks like a stick figure cube
  • overlapped/hidden vertices/edges/or faces will be chosen

• loopcut, looks like a cube with a line around it

  • always evenly spaced between 2 adjacent selections
    • choose number of cuts in top left

• add material

  • shift + a
    • add new object in Object mode
    • add new object to working object in Edit mode
  • while in shift + a menu press "s" to bring up search

Cloth Divisions

• edit - right click - subdivide
• give cloth thickness
  • modifiers, looks like wrench
    • add modifier - search - solidify
• visual to make smoother appearance
  • right click - smooth

We made the cloth fall onto the monkey.

My 10 minute cat challenge:

I did not save this project as it was just a trial.