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by Jason van Gumster
Blender For Dummies®, 2nd Edition
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright
About the Author
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Publisher's Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction
About This Book
Conventions Used in This Book
Foolish Assumptions
How This Book Is Organized
Icons Used in This Book
Where to Go from Here
Part I: Wrapping Your Brain Around Blender
Chapter 1: Discovering Blender
Getting to Know Blender
Discovering Blender's Beginnings
Making Open Movies and Games
Getting to Know the Interface
Chapter 2: Understanding How Blender Thinks
Looking at Editor Types
Working with the Properties Editor
Customizing Blender to Fit You
Navigating in Three Dimensions
New Features in Blender's 3D View Since 2.5
Chapter 3: Getting Your Hands Dirty Working in Blender
Grabbing, Scaling, and Rotating
Differentiating Between Coordinate Systems
Transforming an Object by Using the 3D Manipulator
Saving Time by Using Hotkeys
Chapter 4: Working in Edit Mode and Object Mode
Making Changes by Using Edit Mode
Adding to a Scene
Part II: Creating Detailed 3D Scenes
Chapter 5: Creating Anything You Can Imagine with Meshes
Pushing Vertices
Working with Loops and Rings
Simplifying Your Life As a Modeler with Modifiers
Sculpting Multiresolution Meshes
Practical Example: Modeling an Eye
Chapter 6: Using Blender's Nonmesh Primitives
Using Curves and Surfaces
Using Meta Objects
Adding Text
Chapter 7: Changing That Boring Gray Default Material
Playing with Materials
Coloring Vertices with Vertex Paint
Practical Example: Coloring the Eye
Chapter 8: Giving Models Texture
Adding Textures
Using Procedural Textures
Understanding Texture Mapping
Unwrapping a Mesh
Painting Textures Directly on a Mesh
Baking Texture Maps from Your Mesh
Using UV Textures
Practical Example: Unwrapping Your Eye and Painting a Detailed Texture
Chapter 9: Lighting and Environment
Lighting a Scene
Lighting for Speedy Renders
Setting Up the World
Part III: Get Animated!
Chapter 10: Animating Objects
Working with Animation Curves
Using Constraints Effectively
Practical Example: Building and Animating a Simple Eye Rig
Chapter 11: Rigging: The Art of Building an Animatable Puppet
Creating Shape Keys
Adding Hooks
Using Armatures: Skeletons in the Mesh
Practical Example: Rigging Stickman
Chapter 12: Animating Object Deformations
Working with the Dopesheet
Animating with Armatures
Doing Nonlinear Animation
Chapter 13: Letting Blender Do the Work for You
Using Particles in Blender
Giving Objects Some Jiggle and Bounce
Dropping Objects in a Scene with Rigid Body Dynamics
Simulating Cloth
Splashing Fluids in Your Scene
Part IV: Sharing Your Work with the World
Chapter 14: Exporting and Rendering Scenes
Exporting to External Formats
Rendering a Scene
Chapter 15: Compositing and Editing
Comparing Editing to Compositing
Working with the Video Sequence Editor
Working with the Node-Based Compositor
Part V: The Part of Tens
Chapter 16: Ten Problems for New Users in Blender (And Ways Around Them)
Auto Saves and Session Recovery Don't Work
Blender's Interface Is Weird or Glitchy
A Notorious Black Stripe Appears on Models
Objects Go Missing
Edge Loop Select Doesn't Work
A Background Image Disappears
Zooming Has Its Limits
Lost Simulation Data
Blender Doesn't Create Faces As Expected
Disorientation in the 3D View
Chapter 17: Ten Tips for Working More Effectively in Blender
Use Tooltips and Integrated Search
Look at Models from Different Views
Lock a Camera to an Animated Character
Don't Forget about Add-Ons
Name Everything
Use Layers Effectively
Do Low-Resolution Test Renders
Mind Your Mouse
Use Grease Pencil to Plan
Have Fun, but Take Breaks
Chapter 18: Ten Excellent Community Resources
Blender.org
BlenderArtists.org
BlenderNation
BlenderBasics.com
BlenderNewbies
BlenderCookie.com
Blendswap
Blenderart Magazine
Graphicall.org
Blender IRC Channels on freenode.net
Appendix: About the DVD
System Requirements
Using the DVD
What You'll Find on the DVD
Troubleshooting
Customer Care
Index
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