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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 bottom of the spacecraft


In the previous sections of the modeling process, we created a lot of small parts and finishing touches for the spacecraft, but we still have more to do. The next part of the model that will receive a few extra faces is the bottom, where the new wing parts will be useful now to help create the bottom faces. Before we do anything, rotate the view to see the bottom part of the spacecraft, and select the edges pointed in the following image:

Note that we need only one extrusion to create the new faces and close the bottom. But, to make the placement of the new faces easier, we will use the snap tool of Blender. Before hitting the E key, turn on the snap tool.

Create an extrusion and hold down the Ctrl key to create the new faces and place them at the right position, shown as a small white circle in the following image:

This will be a good time to align all of the faces at the bottom of the model and all edges. We must select the front edges that were...

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