Blender 3D Cookbook by Valenza, Enrico -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Blender 3D Cookbook

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Preface

What this book covers What you need for this book Who this book is for Sections

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more… See also

Conventions Reader feedback Customer support

Downloading the example code Downloading the color images of this book Errata Piracy Questions

1. Modeling the Character's Base Mesh

Introduction Setting templates with the Images as Planes add-on

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Setting templates with the Image Empties method

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Setting templates with the Background Images tool

Getting ready How to do it…

Building the character's base mesh with the Skin modifier

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

2. Sculpting the Character's Base Mesh

Introduction Using the Skin modifier's Armature option

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more… See also

Editing the mesh

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Preparing the base mesh for sculpting

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Using the Multiresolution modifier and the Dynamic topology feature

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Sculpting the character's base mesh

Getting ready How to do it… There's more…

3. Polygonal Modeling of the Character's Accessories

Introduction Preparing the scene for polygonal modeling

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Modeling the eye

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Modeling the armor plates

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… See also

Using the Mesh to Curve technique to add details

How to do it… How it works…

4. Re-topology of the High Resolution Sculpted Character's Mesh

Introduction Using the Grease Pencil tool to plan the edge-loops flow

Getting ready How to do it… There's more… See also

Using the Snap tool to re-topologize the mesh

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Using the Shrinkwrap modifier to re-topologize the mesh

Getting ready How to do it…

Using the LoopTools add-on to re-topologize the mesh

Getting ready How to do it…

Concluding the re-topologized mesh

Getting ready How to do it… There's more… How it works…

5. Unwrapping the Low Resolution Mesh

Introduction Preparing the low resolution mesh for unwrapping

Getting ready How to do it…

UV unwrapping the mesh

Getting ready How to do it…

Editing the UV islands

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more…

Using the Smart UV Project tool

Getting ready How to do it…

Modifying the mesh and the UV islands

Getting ready How to do it…

Setting up additional UV layers

Getting ready How to do it…

Exporting the UV Map layout

Getting ready How to do it…

6. Rigging the Low Resolution Mesh

Introduction Building the character's Armature from scratch

Getting ready How to do it…

Building the rig for the secondary parts Completing the rig

How it works…

Perfecting the Armature to also function as a rig for the Armor

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Building the character's Armature through the Human Meta-Rig

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Building the animation controls and the Inverse Kinematic

Getting ready How to do it… See also

Generating the character's Armature by using the Rigify add-on

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… See also

7. Skinning the Low Resolution Mesh

Introduction Parenting the Armature and Mesh using the Automatic Weights tool

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more… See also

Assigning Weight Groups by hand

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… See also

Editing Weight Groups using the Weight Paint tool

Getting ready How to do it… See also

Using the Mesh Deform modifier to skin the character

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… See also

Using the Laplacian Deform modifier and Hooks

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… See also

8. Finalizing the Model

Introduction Creating shape keys

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Assigning drivers to the shape keys

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more… See also

Setting movement limit constraints

Getting ready How to do it… See also

Transferring the eyeball rotation to the eyelids

Getting ready How to do it…

Detailing the Armor by using the Curve from Mesh tool

Getting ready How to do it… There's more… See also

9. Animating the Character

Introduction Linking the character and making a proxy

Getting ready How to do it… See also

Creating a simple walk cycle for the character by assigning keys to the bones

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more… See also

Tweaking the actions in Graph Editor

Getting ready How to do it… See also

Using the Non Linear Action Editor to mix different actions

Getting ready How to do it… See also

10. Creating the Textures

Introduction Making a tileable scales image in Blender Internal

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Preparing the model to use the UDIM UV tiles

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Baking the tileable scales texture into the UV tiles

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more…

Painting to fix the seams and to modify the baked scales image maps

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more… See also

Painting the color maps in Blender Internal

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… See also

Painting the color maps in Cycles

Getting ready How to do it…

11. Refining the Textures

Introduction Sculpting more details on the high resolution mesh

Getting ready How to do it…

Baking the normals of the sculpted mesh on the low resolution one

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more…

The Armor textures

Getting ready How to do it… There's more… See also

Adding a dirty Vertex Colors layer and baking it to an image texture

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… See also

The Quick Edit tool

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

12. Creating the Materials in Cycles

Introduction Building the reptile skin shaders in Cycles

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more… See also

Making a node group of the skin shader to reuse it

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Building the eyes' shaders in Cycles

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Building the armor shaders in Cycles

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more…

13. Creating the Materials in Blender Internal

Introduction Building the reptile skin shaders in Blender Internal

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more… See also

Building the eyes' shaders in Blender Internal

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Building the armor shaders in Blender Internal

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more…

14. Lighting, Rendering, and a Little Bit of Compositing

Introduction Setting the library and the 3D scene layout

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… See also

Setting image based lighting (IBL)

Getting ready How to do it…

Image based lighting in Cycles Image based lighting in Blender Internal

How it works… See also

Setting a three-point lighting rig in Blender Internal

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… See also

Rendering an OpenGL playblast of the animation

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more… See also

Obtaining a noise-free and faster rendering in Cycles

Getting ready How to do it… See also

Compositing the render layers

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… See also

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