WEBVTT 00:01.490 --> 00:04.000 Welcome to what you can now make. 00:04.010 --> 00:09.950 So this is an extra video that I've put in here to make sure that you guys realize the power of what 00:09.950 --> 00:11.340 you've learnt already. 00:11.570 --> 00:13.790 So what else can you make. 00:13.790 --> 00:19.370 Well we can add basic shapes now and transform them whether that's moving them scaling them or indeed 00:19.370 --> 00:25.480 rotating them limited knowledge usually inspires and creativity. 00:25.490 --> 00:30.770 And that's what I want to get across to you because now we're able to generate some very basic place 00:30.770 --> 00:38.120 holders and rough mock-ups but they can be quite detailed as you'll see in a few moments and you see 00:38.120 --> 00:44.120 that there are also limitations to doing this as well will explore what those are and why we need to 00:44.120 --> 00:46.980 learn a bit more about modelling as well. 00:47.000 --> 00:51.130 So let's go hop on over into blender and explore what we can now make. 00:52.250 --> 00:59.030 Okay so we're over in a default scene here and we can go and grab our cube as we've done here and stack 00:59.030 --> 01:00.120 things together. 01:00.170 --> 01:06.640 Now I like to think of these primitives being very much like pieces of Lego. 01:07.440 --> 01:12.000 So we zoom out a little we can use these to construct other things. 01:12.120 --> 01:19.350 So let's have a look at what we could do we could and we can do lots of things FO How to Start Well 01:19.590 --> 01:24.070 think about basic objects that are around you all the time. 01:24.120 --> 01:27.600 I got so speakers in front of me I've just been inspired to do them. 01:27.630 --> 01:32.050 So let's go ahead and model a pair of speakers or at least a speaker. 01:32.080 --> 01:32.940 Now how do you do that. 01:32.940 --> 01:37.460 Well the speaker I've got in front of me is is rectangular. 01:37.470 --> 01:39.970 So we need to scale this and make it taller. 01:40.170 --> 01:45.090 So let's go ahead and do that let's scale this on the z direction. 01:45.120 --> 01:47.950 So I've pressed Z and then by two. 01:49.740 --> 01:51.080 Okay that looks good. 01:51.080 --> 01:56.440 I'm also going to move it up now on the z axis by one blender units. 01:56.600 --> 02:02.950 So G for moving Z and I'm going to press a one hour that doesn't look like it's enough. 02:02.950 --> 02:04.110 So one of the. 02:04.420 --> 02:05.610 Then do too. 02:06.020 --> 02:06.800 Okay. 02:07.070 --> 02:07.370 Yes. 02:07.370 --> 02:09.590 That looks like it's on the floor now. 02:09.990 --> 02:14.870 Okay so speakers usually have these cones in them to make them look like. 02:14.990 --> 02:16.740 Well and they're useful aren't they. 02:16.760 --> 02:19.100 No it's not to make them look like speakers they are speakers. 02:19.270 --> 02:21.990 Okay so let's go ahead and add in. 02:22.070 --> 02:27.580 So I'm using shift in a to bring up the ADD menu and go ahead and add in a cylinder. 02:28.350 --> 02:29.790 This can be one of our cones. 02:29.790 --> 02:37.010 Now this is the wrong way round so we can rotate that on the x axis by a 90 degrees. 02:38.070 --> 02:38.850 Excellent. 02:38.880 --> 02:45.840 Now because it's now playing along this excessive can drag the ARP using the manipulator widget and 02:45.840 --> 02:49.690 pull it out slightly and there we go we've got our first cone. 02:49.710 --> 02:54.510 And at this point I'm going to say well this isn't quite wide enough to accommodate this cone something 02:54.510 --> 02:59.200 going to cheat so to speak and select that object and scale it. 02:59.250 --> 03:04.920 But this time only on the x direction which is going to make its heini bit wider with my mouse and there 03:04.920 --> 03:05.400 we go. 03:05.400 --> 03:08.910 We've got our first speaker cone there. 03:08.920 --> 03:14.010 Now I'm going to have a nother one just up here in the top right of it. 03:14.010 --> 03:18.180 So once again I'm going to add another cone of cone. 03:18.190 --> 03:23.220 It might be adding a cone I'm going to add a cylinder to represent the cone and then I'm going to move 03:23.250 --> 03:23.990 this up. 03:24.000 --> 03:25.350 I'm going to rotate. 03:25.350 --> 03:26.310 It's on me. 03:26.380 --> 03:29.040 What was it x axis by 90. 03:29.520 --> 03:34.200 And then once I've done that I'm going to reduce the size of it. 03:34.260 --> 03:40.290 Of course you can use the transform options over on the properties panel as well if that's not open 03:40.290 --> 03:42.790 you can use the N key to open it up. 03:42.990 --> 03:47.720 And let's change the scale here that's two point five. 03:47.730 --> 03:50.690 I'm going to use tab to move to the next field. 03:50.760 --> 03:55.140 Go point five point five but five can't see anymore let's just pull it out slightly. 03:55.140 --> 04:00.400 And there we go we can lift this up here and push in ever so slightly. 04:00.450 --> 04:02.640 Then we go to a basic speaker that we can use. 04:02.640 --> 04:08.520 Of course you can go ahead and build up many many objects like this and I'd like to show you one I've 04:08.520 --> 04:09.600 already done. 04:09.720 --> 04:14.130 And then I'd like to give you guys an extra challenge for the end of this section. 04:14.460 --> 04:22.170 So I'm gonna save that song in a save as speaker example and you can see I've actually got some extra 04:22.170 --> 04:24.510 examples here but I want to show you. 04:24.590 --> 04:26.190 I don't know which one to pick. 04:26.340 --> 04:30.190 I've got my train a tree a tractor a castle. 04:30.220 --> 04:33.440 Well I will show these as we go through in the challenge. 04:33.600 --> 04:36.190 However in this example I'm going to show the train. 04:36.210 --> 04:37.540 I do like the train. 04:37.920 --> 04:42.540 Now I'm going to open the outliner up as well so I'm just going to pull this boat across so you can 04:42.540 --> 04:48.180 see it is genuinely just made up of lots of different objects. 04:48.210 --> 04:53.800 So you've got a cone we've got loads of cubes we've got some cylinders in there as well. 04:54.030 --> 05:01.350 And this is a very basic object and could be used as a place holder if you needed a train in a game 05:01.380 --> 05:05.280 or just as train in your scene you just need to put something there really quickly. 05:05.310 --> 05:06.450 This took. 05:06.600 --> 05:11.570 Admittedly I'm experienced I've gone through this lots but this took about 10 minutes to put together 05:11.790 --> 05:15.290 and most of that was just thinking about how I wanted it to look. 05:15.380 --> 05:16.110 And yes. 05:16.110 --> 05:17.680 Does it look like a train. 05:18.000 --> 05:24.330 Well kind of it looks more like a toy model but there are some problems with this and I'd like you to 05:24.510 --> 05:32.550 witness this now with me as we go through now as I highlight these cubes you see that they overlap one 05:32.550 --> 05:35.300 another in many many places. 05:35.310 --> 05:40.530 And because they overlap one another that causes us a few objects up and problems. 05:40.530 --> 05:44.760 Now I'm going to select everything I'm going to use the aiki to do that and select everything and we 05:44.760 --> 05:47.400 can see how they are all overlapping. 05:47.400 --> 05:52.140 Now these are going to causes problems when it comes to what's known as rendering. 05:52.130 --> 05:57.260 Now we rendering is making your final image it's rendering out what we see here. 05:57.300 --> 06:01.500 If I go ahead and render this image there are a couple of ways I can do that. 06:01.500 --> 06:05.770 I can go up to the render option at the top and render the image. 06:05.830 --> 06:09.980 If I go ahead and do that now we see that we get some artefacts. 06:09.980 --> 06:11.310 Now this is too zoomed in. 06:11.310 --> 06:16.230 Don't worry too much about actually rending around your models at the moment. 06:16.230 --> 06:18.200 Were focussed on that in a future lecture. 06:18.300 --> 06:19.880 But you can see there's some problems here. 06:19.880 --> 06:25.340 So let's go back to our 3-d view by clicking on the header bar. 06:25.710 --> 06:29.460 The option for this large window we've got here and switch it to the 3D view. 06:29.850 --> 06:36.690 Once it's in the 3D view next to where we've got object mode in edit mode the selection there next to 06:36.690 --> 06:43.320 that is a little white ball and sometimes you may change this inadvertently to one of these other options. 06:43.440 --> 06:47.420 By default I usually work with solid unless otherwise needed. 06:47.620 --> 06:53.400 Wireframe can be quite interesting it shows you here how all of this is built up and we can see that 06:53.400 --> 06:56.110 we've got intersecting geometry everywhere. 06:56.130 --> 07:04.370 We've got a cone here and we got a sphere with intersecting with a cylinder cone going inside a cylinder. 07:04.500 --> 07:06.840 We've got these cubes all going across. 07:06.840 --> 07:08.640 We've got another cylinder in here. 07:08.680 --> 07:12.490 Now you can toggle wireframe on and off with the Z key. 07:12.660 --> 07:14.860 That's a quick way of doing that. 07:14.880 --> 07:17.620 However the top option here is rendered. 07:17.700 --> 07:23.820 And if we see and what it looks like when it's rendered you see that we've got some horrible black banding 07:23.820 --> 07:30.620 and that's where the meshes of the individual mesh objects all these cubes are intersecting. 07:30.690 --> 07:36.750 And it does a blender just doesn't know what to show you so you can see here where the cone and the 07:36.750 --> 07:37.310 cylinder are. 07:37.410 --> 07:41.640 And then when this fear in the cylinder me we don't seem to have any problems there. 07:41.680 --> 07:47.800 And the reason why we don't have any problems is because the faces that make up the shapes aren't actual. 07:47.830 --> 07:53.710 They intersect one another but they're not on top of one another whereas these particular cubes that 07:53.710 --> 07:55.880 are layered on top of One other another. 07:55.990 --> 07:57.910 It just doesn't know which face to show. 07:57.920 --> 08:02.590 So you end up with this horrible art of acting and you come across this quite a bit so this is one of 08:02.590 --> 08:08.190 the limitations of doing it this way we get these funny rendering artefacts. 08:08.380 --> 08:13.290 Of course we're not going to worry too much about that at the moment because these are great place holders. 08:13.310 --> 08:18.000 If I go back to solid mode I can now place that in a block station I want. 08:18.060 --> 08:24.010 Wall challenge Okay everybody so I've come back into my train scene here just to show you a couple of 08:24.010 --> 08:26.920 ways that you can render the work you're working on. 08:26.920 --> 08:30.600 So one of the first things you can do is go up to the render tab. 08:30.610 --> 08:34.210 Now notice that there are quite a few options there. 08:34.240 --> 08:40.090 Now one of the quick ways of sharing would be to do an open g.l. render image that is very very quick 08:40.090 --> 08:46.090 unless you can see you get exactly what I saw on the viewport and the view has changed the view has 08:46.090 --> 08:46.540 changed. 08:46.540 --> 08:52.520 We have a look in the lower left it has changed to an image editor you v slash image editor window. 08:52.540 --> 08:53.400 Now it's done. 08:53.410 --> 08:59.380 That's what we can do is go to the image menu and then we can save as image and I can save that as let's 08:59.380 --> 09:01.750 say a train. 09:01.750 --> 09:06.250 Now at the moment if we have a look on the left I have named it train but if we have a look on the left 09:06.250 --> 09:09.130 and go down we've got save as image. 09:09.250 --> 09:12.340 That of course might need to be pulled up from the bottom. 09:12.340 --> 09:17.810 If you've scrolled it down at some point but if I lift that back up you can see here save as an image 09:17.810 --> 09:23.070 of PRNG and I can go ahead and save that and now I can share that if I wanted to. 09:23.350 --> 09:28.140 Now a more in-depth way and we'll get to a rendering fully in a later section. 09:28.150 --> 09:33.040 But for now if you wanted to render that this camera in the scene would dictate what you actually see 09:33.040 --> 09:33.910 when you render. 09:33.910 --> 09:39.670 Now bear in mind at the top here on the info head a bar we have something called blender render that's 09:39.670 --> 09:41.470 the default rendering engine. 09:41.530 --> 09:44.260 And underneath that we have cycles render. 09:44.330 --> 09:45.580 What what can we do here. 09:45.580 --> 09:48.980 Well we'll find out much more about cycles render and blender render later. 09:49.030 --> 09:50.240 For the moment let's leave it there. 09:50.240 --> 09:53.170 Blender render and just go to render and render image. 09:53.170 --> 09:58.750 Now you can see here that this is really close in and we've got a few artefacts here but we have better 09:58.750 --> 09:59.350 light. 09:59.500 --> 10:04.020 Now we can go ahead and move the camera around in order to see our scene better. 10:04.150 --> 10:10.300 But another thing we can do is simply hide some of the objects from the viewport in the 3-d view and 10:10.390 --> 10:16.810 actually get a relatively decent looking model without having to one worry about high render times and 10:16.810 --> 10:18.660 positioning the camera and all that lots. 10:18.820 --> 10:25.270 So let's go back to the 3-d view and turn on something called ambient occlusion And if we have a look 10:25.270 --> 10:31.660 in the properties pane of the 3-d window you'll see a tick box that you can turn on ambient occlusion 10:31.660 --> 10:35.560 you may have to open up the shading dialogue to see all of those. 10:35.620 --> 10:41.050 And if we turn on Ambien occlusion you can see those areas around the we'll get darker. 10:41.080 --> 10:46.600 Now we can start to see it's much better like this it all kind of blends into one we can't see the fact 10:46.600 --> 10:51.070 that the wheel arches round here we turn on ambient occlusion we can do. 10:51.130 --> 10:58.120 Of course you can play with the depth the strength for distance it's spread over the attenuation there's 10:58.120 --> 11:00.560 lots of different things you can play with here. 11:00.610 --> 11:04.840 If you turn the samples up too high you may end up with it not working properly. 11:04.930 --> 11:10.690 But now what we can do is we can go to our outline now in the top right in this case and if we scroll 11:10.690 --> 11:13.210 down obviously we've got a lot of options here. 11:13.210 --> 11:18.230 You can click the little icon on the camera and it will disappear from my view. 11:18.370 --> 11:19.600 And they'll also be a lamp. 11:19.600 --> 11:23.560 This other object we have in our scene some guessing is going to be under L for lamp. 11:23.560 --> 11:24.250 There we go. 11:24.250 --> 11:25.940 And I can hide that as well. 11:26.080 --> 11:29.190 So now I can reposition my viewport. 11:29.200 --> 11:32.180 I can zoom into how I want to show it to people. 11:32.240 --> 11:38.410 And in fact in this case when press N and T to get rid of those vulgar a full 3D view that I like what 11:38.410 --> 11:45.580 I see there so I can go render open g.l. render image that's a brilliant train now and it's got some 11:45.610 --> 11:48.180 detailing it that it would otherwise be missing. 11:48.190 --> 11:49.890 Really shows the wheels are there. 11:49.930 --> 11:55.780 And finally of course you know image savours image and I'm going to update my train here and click savours 11:55.780 --> 11:56.300 image. 11:56.320 --> 11:57.350 Now do notice there. 11:57.350 --> 12:01.330 It did not prompt me if I was sure that I wanted to override that. 12:01.450 --> 12:06.100 So that's a little quirk with Blender that you do have to watch out for because it's very easy to overwrite 12:06.100 --> 12:10.510 something because it doesn't say Are you sure which you're all used to now. 12:10.750 --> 12:11.270 Okay. 12:11.320 --> 12:17.650 I think it's about Challenge time now and this is really an extra activity for you to really hone your 12:17.650 --> 12:18.460 skills. 12:18.460 --> 12:24.020 I know many many of you will just do the challenge you may follow along but you dont. 12:24.020 --> 12:26.620 Expand on that and it is really important. 12:26.680 --> 12:32.050 You can listen to me you can read books you can watch lots of YouTube videos but lets you actually take 12:32.050 --> 12:37.240 part and do the activities these challenges you wont learn as well as. 12:37.290 --> 12:44.220 Otherwise so extra activities here I'd like you to try making some other basic objects from just primitives. 12:44.270 --> 12:46.610 Limit yourself in scope. 12:46.610 --> 12:52.880 Now this is excellent practice and I know some of you would have already gone off and made different 12:52.880 --> 12:53.410 things. 12:53.540 --> 12:56.140 Think about simple objects. 12:56.180 --> 13:00.350 Now the train I've got there's probably as complicated as you want to get. 13:00.350 --> 13:05.690 I've already joked about making a castle but this is just an extra activity of thinking about what else 13:05.750 --> 13:07.380 you could make. 13:07.400 --> 13:09.890 Pause the video now and give that a go. 13:12.570 --> 13:14.010 Okay guys welcome back. 13:14.130 --> 13:20.400 Let's go through the other things that I've made in blender just by joining some basic primitives together 13:20.670 --> 13:22.270 and seeing what I come up with. 13:25.720 --> 13:27.500 Okay so we seen the train. 13:27.520 --> 13:33.000 I really like the train it obviously is just a place holder It doesn't look like a realistic train. 13:33.040 --> 13:34.630 It gets the idea across. 13:34.630 --> 13:38.880 It might not be the right scale but of course with everything selected I could scale it down. 13:39.010 --> 13:41.650 But it's a great starting point now what else have I made. 13:41.650 --> 13:44.610 Let's have a look at these other things so we've done the speaker. 13:44.620 --> 13:49.600 That was a great example of a nice straightforward and simple object and you can build upon that as 13:49.600 --> 13:50.160 well. 13:50.260 --> 13:53.550 But it took no time at all to create that object. 13:53.560 --> 14:00.460 I've got a tree example so I was playing about and I've used IKO spheres for these sort of leaves that 14:00.460 --> 14:01.410 would be there. 14:01.450 --> 14:03.000 I've used some cylinders. 14:03.100 --> 14:06.360 It took ages to rotate these around and try and get them in the right place. 14:06.490 --> 14:08.490 But you can see how you can build up. 14:08.560 --> 14:15.790 So even more complicated objects than you could perhaps otherwise if you were trying to model them more 14:15.940 --> 14:17.000 precisely. 14:17.170 --> 14:21.570 And again this viewed from this distance Well it looks like a low poly tree. 14:21.700 --> 14:27.520 Obviously at this distance it may cause a few issues when you can see at the top here the cylinder doesn't 14:27.520 --> 14:28.290 quite match. 14:28.450 --> 14:32.710 But again these are things that could be sorted out afterwards when you've made the decision whether 14:32.710 --> 14:35.050 or not you're keeping that tree or not. 14:35.050 --> 14:37.930 With further models let's have a look at the tractor. 14:37.930 --> 14:39.750 Now this is very simple. 14:39.750 --> 14:46.310 This is very much like the train but on a much more simple level fewer parts in here. 14:46.450 --> 14:52.740 But there are intersecting parts again so if we go down to rendered viewport shading. 14:53.720 --> 14:54.200 Oh fine. 14:54.230 --> 14:56.650 Oh I mean cycles render mode at the top here. 14:56.660 --> 15:01.640 If I switch over to blender render There we go we can see the artefact there. 15:01.670 --> 15:07.620 Now it's not that cycle's doesn't have the artefact it's just well hidden in this particular case. 15:07.640 --> 15:12.460 So there are two blender right and there are two types of rendering by default in blender. 15:12.500 --> 15:17.540 And yours is probably set to blend a render at the moment and will probably be for the next couple of 15:17.540 --> 15:21.410 sections so keep it selected on blender render. 15:21.410 --> 15:24.770 Now let's have a look at the final one which is a castle. 15:24.770 --> 15:32.150 So I stacked a load of cubes together you can see quite a few building blocks went into this and I made 15:32.150 --> 15:33.810 some low poly trees again. 15:33.980 --> 15:36.080 And this is just a place holder. 15:36.080 --> 15:37.220 It's rough and ready. 15:37.220 --> 15:42.030 I want to get this across to you if I go underneath look the trees have roots. 15:42.110 --> 15:43.950 That's why I'm calling them anyway. 15:44.070 --> 15:51.020 So there's a lot of scope to be had now I know and understand that the tools you've got so far is pretty 15:51.020 --> 15:57.100 limiting but you can see when you limited you can actually get some quite interesting scenes being developed 15:57.110 --> 15:58.380 I quite like that. 15:58.400 --> 16:03.410 I don't know what this looks like if I go into rendered mode I don't know if I've got any intersections. 16:03.450 --> 16:08.300 Well that looks okay I can see a bit on the tower there but there's some dark shadows but that's not 16:08.300 --> 16:09.040 what this is about. 16:09.050 --> 16:14.910 Not about making it look pretty is about just making some basic building blocks. 16:14.910 --> 16:20.240 I now repeat myself a couple of times there but I really want you guys to hone in on these basic skills 16:20.510 --> 16:24.170 because they are going to help you be lots in lectures to come. 16:24.400 --> 16:28.660 I hope you've had fun making these objects assemble as they may be. 16:28.760 --> 16:33.650 Please do share them in the discussions I love seeing you guys work and don't worry about the quality 16:33.650 --> 16:34.230 of them. 16:34.250 --> 16:41.150 These are your practices you know and do please practice and show me what you come up with and I will 16:41.150 --> 16:43.420 see you guys in the next lecture.