WEBVTT 00:04.050 --> 00:06.150 Hello everybody and welcome back. 00:06.150 --> 00:12.690 Now whether you're making a very simple spiral staircase like this or perhaps something a bit more extravagant 00:12.690 --> 00:20.250 like this well duplication is key to being able to make these things very very quickly. 00:20.250 --> 00:23.910 Let's go find out some more now before we get going. 00:23.910 --> 00:28.770 I want to go into this well in a little bit more detail because I know some of you will be thinking 00:29.040 --> 00:32.100 how are we going to make that with what we've learned so far. 00:32.580 --> 00:37.560 Well if we have a closer look and I've left it like this deliberately I don't want to see anybody's 00:37.560 --> 00:38.680 work like this. 00:38.700 --> 00:40.520 We have a look over in the outline. 00:40.740 --> 00:45.920 Even though is grouped into these separate collections which we'll deal with later on. 00:46.050 --> 00:51.540 You see here it says well if we open up that everything is a cube. 00:51.600 --> 00:58.500 I think literally everything is a cube if I scrolled down here to take this tile for example it is a 00:58.500 --> 01:01.580 cube that's been squished down this piece of wood. 01:01.590 --> 01:08.760 This support again is something that started and originated as a cube and there's lots of detail in 01:08.760 --> 01:11.760 here there's slats holding up the tiles on the roof. 01:11.760 --> 01:14.360 The tiles are all slightly higgledy piggledy. 01:14.370 --> 01:17.360 I'll show you how to do that as we go through this lecture. 01:17.490 --> 01:22.680 But the other thing to bear in mind is I'm going to be caught out with this several times I'm sure. 01:22.680 --> 01:28.230 But we need to sort out on naming right from the very beginning if these were called something else 01:28.230 --> 01:35.730 like if I click on the tile here if it was actually called tile rather than cube dot 1 0 6 I would be 01:35.730 --> 01:37.410 able to search for it. 01:37.560 --> 01:43.050 And that would've been really useful because I really wanted to show all of these colored in but I can't 01:43.050 --> 01:47.250 do that now I really can't be bothered going through and selecting each one individually. 01:47.290 --> 01:54.370 Now take a long time to do anyway without any further ado let's hop on over and into a brand new blender 01:54.410 --> 01:55.140 file okay. 01:55.300 --> 02:00.480 So welcome to the default blend seen now in front of us here we've got our cube we've got a camera and 02:00.480 --> 02:04.000 a lamp all of these objects can be duplicated. 02:04.000 --> 02:05.960 You can do this under the object menu. 02:05.970 --> 02:12.710 So with the cube selected we're going to go to objects and we can see we've got two types of duplication. 02:12.960 --> 02:17.670 We can duplicate them or we can linked duplicate them. 02:17.670 --> 02:23.520 The main difference between this is if you link something it means you can change the properties of 02:23.520 --> 02:27.580 the objects and all of the other ones that are linked will inherit it. 02:27.780 --> 02:32.720 We'll use those more later on but for the moment we're going to use duplicate objects. 02:32.730 --> 02:37.360 Now if I just go ahead and click on that you see we get a nother cube straight away. 02:37.380 --> 02:39.960 Now we can place that's all we can be more precise. 02:39.960 --> 02:43.610 We can lock it to the x axis and move it along slightly. 02:43.680 --> 02:44.270 So there we go. 02:44.270 --> 02:53.100 We've got two objects next to one another and cube 0 0 1 is a duplicate of this one here the original 02:53.100 --> 02:54.030 cube. 02:54.030 --> 02:59.040 And of course if we duplicate I'm going to you shift and D this time to duplicate this will be called 02:59.040 --> 03:00.960 cube 0 0 2. 03:00.960 --> 03:05.750 Now you can name these over in the outline itself. 03:05.760 --> 03:09.480 We can just click on this and call it a cube or whatever. 03:09.480 --> 03:17.850 They must have unique names that is important but generally I liked to name them over here in the objects 03:17.910 --> 03:20.520 properties we see here also says cube. 03:20.610 --> 03:23.300 We can click in here and that's called it a stair. 03:23.400 --> 03:25.600 And there are going to be multiple stairs. 03:25.640 --> 03:26.260 Okay. 03:26.340 --> 03:27.450 So might be worthwhile. 03:27.450 --> 03:30.960 Now we think it's there getting rid of these other two cubes. 03:31.050 --> 03:36.600 Now I'm going to hold down shift select both of them and I'm going to press the delete key on my keyboard 03:36.720 --> 03:37.950 just to get rid of them. 03:37.980 --> 03:41.980 They're out of the way now without any confirmation. 03:42.000 --> 03:46.760 That's one of the differences if I'd use the x key we get this this confirmation box up. 03:47.370 --> 03:47.660 Okay. 03:47.670 --> 03:50.420 So now that I've done that we've got this stair here. 03:50.430 --> 03:55.800 That's not exactly a stair yet but we can go ahead scale on the z axis by maybe point one to get it 03:55.800 --> 04:02.370 really flat and let's scale it on the x axis by point five to get it more like a slab. 04:02.370 --> 04:02.810 Okay. 04:02.820 --> 04:04.730 That's looking pretty good. 04:04.790 --> 04:07.600 We're going to look at it exactly from the side. 04:07.680 --> 04:11.160 So I'm going to go over to my little gimbal over on the top right. 04:11.180 --> 04:13.290 I'm going to click the X.. 04:13.380 --> 04:16.380 I could have also press the number pad 3 if I wanted to. 04:16.770 --> 04:18.250 And now I can zoom in. 04:18.300 --> 04:20.460 Go GZ and just lift it up. 04:20.460 --> 04:25.500 So it's roughly sitting where z equals zero. 04:25.530 --> 04:26.640 Now I've done that. 04:26.670 --> 04:31.960 I can go around to the top view and zoom out slightly and the reason why I'm on the top view here is 04:32.050 --> 04:36.600 I can duplicate is going to be called stare dot 0 0 1 in this case. 04:36.600 --> 04:43.740 I'm fine with them being appended 0 0 1 0 0 2 etc. and I'm going to move this across ever so slightly 04:44.220 --> 04:45.940 and then going to rotate it. 04:45.990 --> 04:52.380 Now I could rotate it by an arbitrary amount or I could be really precise about it and work out how 04:52.380 --> 04:54.840 many stairs I need going round. 04:54.840 --> 05:00.520 In this case I'm going to rotate it's on the z axis I am going to it which it should be. 05:00.780 --> 05:02.850 From this view but just to be precise. 05:03.140 --> 05:07.620 It's and I'm going to rotate hits by 30 degrees. 05:07.650 --> 05:14.430 Now we can see it's rotated the wrong 30 degrees it's gone counterclockwise so I'm going to press the 05:14.430 --> 05:20.850 minus key and that will make it rotate minus 30 and then the press return and I'm going to move it to 05:20.850 --> 05:22.450 roughly the right position. 05:22.500 --> 05:23.310 It's not ideal. 05:23.350 --> 05:29.280 Maybe a little shallower in future no longer is just whizzed round to the side view and go GZ and lift 05:29.280 --> 05:30.710 it up. 05:30.750 --> 05:34.320 So here we go we've got the first couple of steps coming together. 05:34.650 --> 05:36.230 Now you can just continue that. 05:36.260 --> 05:39.790 So we can go so we can go shift and D and duplicate. 05:39.810 --> 05:45.840 Lift that one up ever so slightly since the right high was round to the top rotate it by another minus 05:45.840 --> 05:51.600 30 and then go g and move it roughly into the right place and then we go we can start building these 05:51.600 --> 05:52.830 steps up. 05:52.890 --> 05:57.380 Now one of the things that you may immediately figure out is hang on a minute. 05:57.580 --> 06:01.520 Can I just select all three and then duplicate all of them. 06:01.530 --> 06:02.120 You're right. 06:02.130 --> 06:02.820 You can. 06:02.940 --> 06:05.050 And then we can whiz round to the side. 06:05.130 --> 06:07.070 Lift it up to roughly the right height. 06:07.080 --> 06:09.850 Go round to the top and move it around. 06:09.960 --> 06:13.290 And here we're going to have to rotate it by I think 90. 06:13.290 --> 06:14.400 There we go. 06:14.400 --> 06:18.450 We've got a much tighter spiral staircase than I had in the preview. 06:18.450 --> 06:25.380 Why don't we go ahead and add into here another mesh object a cylinder perhaps and scale that down and 06:25.380 --> 06:31.890 then scale on the z axis and just make that's a bit bigger than whiz round to the top and place it in 06:31.890 --> 06:33.750 the center of all of these. 06:33.860 --> 06:36.810 We shall be roughly there on the scale. 06:36.810 --> 06:37.860 It's up again. 06:37.860 --> 06:38.580 And there we go. 06:38.580 --> 06:41.390 We've got a spiral staircase going around this pillar. 06:41.520 --> 06:46.950 Now that is a bit tall song Go scale set and just make it a bit smaller again. 06:47.100 --> 06:54.810 Mango GZ and lift it's up and the final thing I might want to do here is go ahead and add in a ground 06:54.810 --> 06:55.370 plane. 06:56.400 --> 07:03.210 So I'm going to go shift in a and add in another mesh type which is a plane I'm just going to scale 07:03.210 --> 07:03.690 that up. 07:03.690 --> 07:08.970 Now you may notice that I've not applied any of my transforms at the moment and that's because I'm just 07:08.970 --> 07:12.070 playing as we're going along normally. 07:12.090 --> 07:17.750 I would suggest applying transforms especially if you've scaled things as we've gone. 07:17.790 --> 07:24.360 So here for instance if I had gone control an A and applied this rotation and scale immediately then 07:24.360 --> 07:29.520 the next time we go through I could do that or I could select everything and also apply the rotation 07:29.520 --> 07:35.550 scale and then we should find if we have a look over in the transform whenever we select any of these 07:35.640 --> 07:43.020 objects we can see that the rotation is 0 and the scale is 1 which means that those have been applied. 07:43.020 --> 07:49.080 Finally this plane here I did digress a little while so I can do is go straight over to its properties 07:49.410 --> 07:50.720 and name it ground. 07:50.790 --> 07:53.800 You know something useful right from the very beginning. 07:53.940 --> 08:00.600 If you carry on and make a real mess of things is very hard because now in the outline I can search 08:00.600 --> 08:02.940 for stair and there we go. 08:02.940 --> 08:07.270 I can select by holding down shift all of the stairs. 08:07.290 --> 08:12.690 Very quickly if you had many many stairs that would be a real pain as well. 08:12.690 --> 08:17.320 So how about we group these stairs in their own collection. 08:17.400 --> 08:25.320 Well with them selected Watts we can do is press the M Maliki over in the 3D Ed window and create a 08:25.320 --> 08:29.260 new collection and we can call that collection stairs. 08:29.640 --> 08:36.410 Once we've done that we need to click okay and then we can see we've got a scene collection of which 08:36.410 --> 08:38.650 there is one collection called stairs. 08:38.720 --> 08:42.600 And if I minimize that down I'm going to clear my search first. 08:42.650 --> 08:44.870 We can see that the stairs themselves. 08:44.870 --> 08:49.290 All of those mesh objects are grouped in their own collection. 08:49.340 --> 08:55.130 And that really does help manage your objects especially when you're going to have hundreds and hundreds 08:55.130 --> 09:01.400 in more complex models being able to group them into those collections is really important for managing 09:01.400 --> 09:01.880 your scene. 09:01.880 --> 09:05.370 So we've got the organization and the naming. 09:05.510 --> 09:06.980 Very very important. 09:07.730 --> 09:14.630 And with that it's time for your challenge Okay everybody see your challenge for this lecture is to 09:14.630 --> 09:18.650 make a simple object or scene with primitives. 09:18.650 --> 09:24.870 Now remember you can rotate scale and move your pieces around once you've placed them in your scene. 09:25.100 --> 09:30.350 And of course repeated items you can just duplicate again and again very useful. 09:30.350 --> 09:36.310 Remember you can also select multiple things at once to duplicate them if it's part of a larger object. 09:36.320 --> 09:41.450 Now if you complete a simple object with ease why do you try something else more challenging. 09:41.470 --> 09:45.890 Straightaway it's important to dive in straightaway and continue those skills. 09:45.890 --> 09:51.260 Well like the well I showed you earlier on would be a great example something with more objects in a 09:51.260 --> 09:57.380 bit more difficult to manage or you can block out a more complex scene whether that's an interior or 09:57.410 --> 10:02.900 exterior scene perhaps one that you want to work on more as you develop your skills throughout the course 10:03.410 --> 10:09.480 Paul's video now and give that a go Hello everybody and welcome back. 10:09.480 --> 10:12.250 I'm really looking forward to seeing what you've come up with. 10:12.270 --> 10:17.000 I'm going to go ahead now and hop on over into blender and create my well seen again. 10:17.010 --> 10:19.940 OK everybody this is going to be really quick. 10:19.950 --> 10:21.520 I hope to go and do this. 10:21.540 --> 10:24.290 I'm gonna make the well that we saw earlier. 10:24.360 --> 10:31.430 So I'm going to start off with my cube and scale on the second z axis pi point one and all I could have. 10:31.500 --> 10:32.550 Now I'm going to scale it. 10:32.610 --> 10:33.650 Everything everywhere. 10:33.650 --> 10:38.740 By point 1 and scale it on the y axis by 2 so it's more like a brick. 10:38.790 --> 10:42.610 I'm going to zoom into that brick and go Gee Z. 10:42.720 --> 10:44.090 Point nought five. 10:44.520 --> 10:47.370 Because then I think no no it's not. 10:47.380 --> 10:53.450 So I thought that would have been on the ground perfectly but it's not going to lift up to around there. 10:53.760 --> 10:55.210 And that's good starts. 10:55.260 --> 11:00.840 Now I'm going to go and look at this brick from the very top and I am literally going to duplicate it 11:01.340 --> 11:04.530 rotate it by 30. 11:04.530 --> 11:09.570 Lift it up to roughly here and I'm going to continue doing that but I'm going to select the second one 11:09.630 --> 11:17.090 duplicate that rotate those by 60 and then put it in roughly the right position that's almost there 11:17.100 --> 11:24.090 now we're going to duplicate again rotates by a hundred and five. 11:24.090 --> 11:30.120 No no no no no 120 rotate by hundred and twenty. 11:30.120 --> 11:34.650 Now that I've done to where these have disappeared off to they're all the way over there let's bring 11:34.650 --> 11:35.390 them back in. 11:36.510 --> 11:38.640 So rotate by 120. 11:38.640 --> 11:39.300 There we go. 11:40.370 --> 11:42.660 And then we can plot that roughly in the right place. 11:42.690 --> 11:49.140 I'm just going to duplicate those again because I think if we go ahead I'm gonna save my file as we 11:49.140 --> 11:50.650 go as well and I'm going to call it. 11:50.650 --> 11:52.950 Well save. 11:53.020 --> 11:58.300 Okay so rotate by 120 and I think I might be wrong. 11:58.320 --> 11:59.520 I think we're done. 11:59.640 --> 12:00.340 Excellent. 12:00.360 --> 12:04.920 So that's the basis for the well at the bottom looking good so far. 12:04.920 --> 12:08.410 I'm just going to click and box select everything. 12:08.520 --> 12:11.000 Now there is some intersection here. 12:11.040 --> 12:16.080 That's something we do need to concern ourselves with but not really at this stage. 12:16.080 --> 12:20.570 But what we can now do is whizz round the side duplicates. 12:20.580 --> 12:21.650 Lift it up. 12:21.690 --> 12:24.300 I'm not going to be exact with my placement. 12:24.300 --> 12:28.960 You will notice that things in the real world are not precise. 12:29.040 --> 12:35.220 So it's important that we're not precise here either get a hold down shift and select multiple areas 12:35.550 --> 12:37.140 and then rotate them on the z axis. 12:37.140 --> 12:42.570 And I don't have to be precise there because I'm going to go straight back in and rotate ever so slightly 12:42.630 --> 12:46.110 so that none of these breaks line up with one another. 12:46.110 --> 12:52.790 That's that's not going to be convincing and you might argue that this is a little over the top. 12:52.830 --> 12:58.650 And you know what you might be right but in this case that now looks much much better. 12:58.650 --> 13:02.150 Now again we've got a little bits of intersecting going on here. 13:02.190 --> 13:04.810 I'm not going to worry about that for the moment. 13:04.830 --> 13:09.200 There are ways around it but again it's it's just the basics here. 13:09.240 --> 13:16.110 Now the first thing that I've done and I can slap my wrist for is everything is called cube so I'm going 13:16.110 --> 13:16.980 to slap my wrist there. 13:16.980 --> 13:22.140 But before I do anything else I'm going to highlight all of these confirm that they're all selected 13:22.560 --> 13:26.400 and move them to their own collection and call it Brick. 13:26.400 --> 13:33.710 Well at least then I'll be able to select all of these individually because they're all grouped together. 13:33.750 --> 13:40.160 Now the next thing that I might want to do is go mesh cube skate it's everywhere. 13:40.170 --> 13:42.540 But the z axis. 13:42.620 --> 13:48.360 It's nice and so I'm going to look at it from the side and lift it up to roughly the right place and 13:48.360 --> 13:50.540 I'm going to git all before duplicate it. 13:50.550 --> 13:56.070 I'm going to cool this wooden supports or wooden frame I'm going to call it the frame. 13:56.070 --> 14:01.750 So this is going to be the originating piece and then everything else was actually come from this. 14:01.830 --> 14:07.740 So I can duplicate that and I'm going to pop it I'll make sure it's selected duplicate and pop it roughly 14:07.740 --> 14:14.000 over the other side in the right place simply duplicates again rotate this around. 14:14.040 --> 14:20.950 Now I'm gonna be precise and go 90 degrees and then scale this up and then we look around and we see 14:20.950 --> 14:23.950 we've got something like that looking pretty good so far. 14:24.400 --> 14:26.480 So that's again. 14:26.520 --> 14:30.800 Look at it from this side duplicates rotate 90. 14:30.910 --> 14:32.860 Lift it up to about here. 14:33.160 --> 14:37.740 And I'm gonna scale that's on the y axis only so it's gonna make it longer. 14:37.780 --> 14:38.740 A whiz round to. 14:38.880 --> 14:45.380 I'm going to duplicate that and you can see here that we just repeat this over and over again. 14:45.490 --> 14:51.100 So I'm going to disappear for a few minutes whilst I do that and I'll just speed up the video and I'll 14:51.100 --> 14:52.970 see you back again shortly. 15:58.420 --> 15:59.300 And there we go. 15:59.390 --> 16:01.880 I'm pretty happy with how that's turned out. 16:01.880 --> 16:06.180 I don't know what you've done with yours but I'm really looking forward to seeing what you've made. 16:06.230 --> 16:11.990 I can see a few things here that I tweak and improve but overall this is a really good example of how 16:11.990 --> 16:18.830 you can really rapidly produce objects in your world by just duplicating and doing no actual modelling. 16:18.830 --> 16:19.550 How cool is that. 16:19.790 --> 16:23.590 Well anyway that's the solution for my challenge on this lecture. 16:23.600 --> 16:28.670 It doesn't matter whether you've kept it basic or you've gone to this level or even beyond. 16:28.670 --> 16:30.650 I can't wait to see what you've produced. 16:30.710 --> 16:36.800 So please do save your files and keep them because we're gonna get them ready to present soon so you 16:36.800 --> 16:40.760 can share your work with both me and your fellow students. 16:40.760 --> 16:43.360 Until then I'll see you in the next lecture.