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Blender 3D 2.49 Incredible Machines

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Product type Book
Published in Nov 2009
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847197467
Pages 316 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Blender 3D 2.49 Incredible Machines
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. Preface
1. Machinery Modeling and Visualization with Blender 2. Modeling a Handgun 3. Polygon Modeling of the Weapon 4. Adding Details 5. Rendering the Project with YafaRay 6. Steampunk Spacecraft 7. Working with Smaller Areas 8. Advanced UV Mapping 9. Putting the Spacecraft to Fly and Shoot with Special Effects 10. Rendering the Spacecraft with YafaRay 11. Transforming Robot 12. Using Modifiers and Curves to Create Details for the Robot and Scene 13. Making the Robot Look Metallic with Materials in LuxRender 14. Adding Lights to the Scene and Rendering with LuxRender 15. It's Alive! Animating the Robot 16. Post Production of the Robot

Creating the storage boxes


The scenario is filled with a few storage boxes made out of a metallic material. By now, we won't have to create any materials or textures in the objects, but we will model the structure of the box to apply the materials later. The storage box is based on a deformed plane, created with a common subdivision modeling technique. To start the modeling of the box, add a mesh plane to the 3D view, and extrude it six times as shown in the following image. Try to follow the same proportions presented in the image.

Note

Hidden objects

By now, we may have lots of objects in 3D view. If you want to temporarily hide those objects, select them and place them on another layer by pressing the M key.

With the extruded plane still selected, we will add another set of extrusions and scale transformations to create the top of the box.

Select the edge loops pointed out in the following image by either making a box selection with the B key or by right-clicking and pressing the Alt...

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