WEBVTT 00:00.420 --> 00:04.020 Welcome to using the array modifier in this video. 00:04.020 --> 00:06.480 We're going to introduce you to your first modifier. 00:06.480 --> 00:08.970 And that is the array modifier. 00:09.060 --> 00:14.920 We're going to let you know that they are non-destructive until you apply to them. 00:14.970 --> 00:21.480 And finally how to separate your geometry so you can work on the array that you've generated. 00:21.480 --> 00:23.150 Let's hop over into blender. 00:23.940 --> 00:25.860 Hello everybody and welcome back. 00:25.860 --> 00:29.720 So let's get started with the fact that I'm currently on a Windows system. 00:29.730 --> 00:31.850 This is a Michael from the future. 00:31.980 --> 00:33.930 Updating this lecture for you. 00:34.050 --> 00:35.700 So everything should be roughly the same. 00:35.700 --> 00:36.870 Is a newer version a blender. 00:36.870 --> 00:39.360 But let's continue with our pyramid. 00:39.360 --> 00:42.720 Now I'm not sure if you've been you've been making something else in the meantime but we've got our 00:42.720 --> 00:46.410 pyramid here and we did discuss about the arain modifier. 00:46.710 --> 00:51.630 Now before we get into modifiers in general what we're going to have to do is go over to the right hand 00:51.630 --> 00:54.900 side and making sure we've got properties frame open. 00:54.900 --> 01:00.210 If you close that down then do open up another frame of type properties. 01:00.210 --> 01:06.370 And I'm also going to extend this out a little so we can see all of the various tabs along the top ranging 01:06.420 --> 01:07.160 from this camera. 01:07.170 --> 01:12.360 I can tell what looks like a bouncing ball at the end and we want the one that looks like a spanner 01:12.360 --> 01:13.520 or a wrench. 01:13.560 --> 01:16.300 Once we click on that this is our modifiers tab. 01:16.380 --> 01:23.700 Now modifiers in general are incredibly useful because they allow us to edit our model with out destroying 01:23.700 --> 01:24.340 it. 01:24.360 --> 01:29.960 So for example here we going to use the array modify and that's going to produce duplicate copies of 01:29.970 --> 01:35.940 what we can see in front of us without having to worry about extra mesh data is done automatically which 01:35.940 --> 01:40.620 means that any edits we do to this pyramid are reflected on every other one. 01:40.620 --> 01:44.250 It's kind of like a linked duplicate in that respect. 01:44.280 --> 01:52.110 So let's go ahead and click the ADD modifier that's somewhere in here there is horray and Verity's generate 01:52.210 --> 01:52.800 array. 01:53.020 --> 01:57.810 And we can see it creates a duplicate straightaway over here if I was to grab one of these phases and 01:57.810 --> 01:58.410 lift it up. 01:58.410 --> 02:02.190 You can see it automatically adjusts accordingly. 02:02.190 --> 02:06.600 Now the great thing about this is anything that you're doing with repetition like that for maybe the 02:06.600 --> 02:12.630 stairs intent of what the challenge might be when it comes to repeating we can do it using the array 02:12.630 --> 02:13.230 modifier. 02:13.320 --> 02:19.560 It's also useful when it comes to just making multiple copies of something very quickly and perhaps 02:19.560 --> 02:20.220 spaced out. 02:20.220 --> 02:27.780 So if you were producing a an array of pyramid's you could do so by just increasing the count number 02:27.780 --> 02:30.620 here in two you meet the number that you require. 02:30.750 --> 02:34.350 This is very good for perhaps apartment blocks et cetera et cetera. 02:34.380 --> 02:39.640 Now what you can also do is change whether we have a constant offset or a relative offset. 02:39.700 --> 02:45.900 Now our cost constant offset will be just a constant distance between each one in both the x y and z 02:45.900 --> 02:50.520 directions relative offset takes into account the entire model itself. 02:50.640 --> 02:57.600 So we can see in this case of air going off in the x direction by one each time and if we zoomed in 02:57.600 --> 03:03.450 you would see that at the bottom of the steps is where the array stops and starts again who've got one 03:03.450 --> 03:04.030 here. 03:04.070 --> 03:06.760 If we go across here we've got another one starting. 03:06.900 --> 03:11.160 If I increase that number to something else it just simply spaces them out. 03:11.250 --> 03:16.920 And if it's less than 1 Well they're going to be on top of each other and then I leave that may be one 03:16.920 --> 03:17.580 point five. 03:17.580 --> 03:19.920 So there's some space between them. 03:20.070 --> 03:26.430 Now when it comes to a race you've got an option of whether or not you want to apply that array. 03:26.460 --> 03:34.290 Now whilst we leave it in this state with this array applied it can be incredibly useful with a non-destructive 03:34.290 --> 03:39.570 workflow where you don't need to alter the other ones and this is great when you do have an array of 03:39.570 --> 03:45.330 objects are all linked to this original one and you don't want to change them and you want this to update 03:45.330 --> 03:46.490 all the others. 03:46.950 --> 03:52.590 Now if we wanted to make changes to these flaws let's say position them slightly differently or indeed 03:52.590 --> 03:58.220 separate them out and modify of them completely by themselves would have to apply that array. 03:58.230 --> 04:00.670 And when we do that's what we'll end up with. 04:00.780 --> 04:04.190 And here we go this is our first error that I want to show you. 04:04.290 --> 04:08.700 You cannot apply this particular modifier whilst you're in edit mode. 04:08.730 --> 04:13.020 We are in edit mode at the moment we're going to hit the tab key to come out into object mode. 04:13.020 --> 04:17.790 Now when I hit apply we still have one object named pyramid. 04:17.790 --> 04:19.950 However we seem to have three objects in the scene. 04:19.950 --> 04:21.350 What's going on there. 04:21.370 --> 04:29.280 Well this is one mesh object but it has three distinct mesh meshes inside it. 04:29.340 --> 04:36.030 They are one mesh object so if you were to do any other modifiers to this object with these three pyramids 04:36.030 --> 04:38.570 in it it will affect them all. 04:38.730 --> 04:41.980 So how do we go about here separating these out. 04:42.120 --> 04:47.160 Well the first thing I'm going to do is clear any selections I have by hitting the aiki now with nothing 04:47.160 --> 04:47.710 selected. 04:47.750 --> 04:55.440 We could move let's say on top of an object like this hit the b key border select and draw a box around 04:55.440 --> 04:56.410 our pyramid. 04:56.520 --> 05:01.470 Now if you've not got the right settings you'll notice that half the pyramid is in fact not selected. 05:01.500 --> 05:04.650 This is something to watch out for when you're doing that. 05:04.650 --> 05:09.720 If you want it to go all the way through you can switch it to wireframe mode and do that or indeed you 05:09.720 --> 05:12.730 can select through the entire object itself. 05:12.840 --> 05:20.070 And there's an option just along the bottom that the header bar for the 3D window next to our vertices 05:20.130 --> 05:23.290 edges and face select We have limits. 05:23.480 --> 05:30.080 To visible give I turn that off and now you'll notice that everything goes slightly translucent but 05:30.080 --> 05:35.090 it does enable me to select everything regarding our model itself. 05:35.090 --> 05:40.120 So it's kind of want a half way house between wire frame and solid shaded. 05:40.130 --> 05:41.090 Now I've done that. 05:41.090 --> 05:43.510 There were a couple of things that I can do to separate. 05:43.550 --> 05:47.160 I can go to the mesh menu itself on the 3d header a bar. 05:47.180 --> 05:50.630 This is a virtex operation so we go to vertices. 05:50.630 --> 05:55.730 We can see there's an option to separate and then we can see there's a couple of options and we can 05:55.730 --> 05:59.490 do it by selection and we can see here a short cut for that is p. 05:59.630 --> 06:05.690 And if you want the shortcut to the vertex menu we can just go controller and V and we can bring this 06:05.690 --> 06:06.520 menu up. 06:06.680 --> 06:11.030 That is very useful later on when you're really getting into your shortcuts. 06:11.060 --> 06:14.520 But for the moment I will hit the peaky and shoe selection. 06:14.630 --> 06:20.570 And if we have a look at the outliner we see that we've now got pyramid's 0 0 1 and it's a separate 06:20.660 --> 06:27.640 object to our original mesh object that we had and I can finally do the same to this third pyramid. 06:27.680 --> 06:33.970 Now in order to select this third pyramid I'm going to use another short cut key which is select linked 06:34.500 --> 06:37.600 now because all of this mesh data is linked together. 06:37.610 --> 06:39.310 Nothing is separate from one another. 06:39.310 --> 06:43.100 The way that we've constructed it if I go ahead and hit the L key. 06:43.930 --> 06:47.920 We see that they hold all of the pyramid is now selected. 06:47.920 --> 06:54.010 Now this operation itself is depended on whether you've got virtex Selected edge selected or face selected 06:54.040 --> 06:54.660 enabled. 06:54.730 --> 07:01.060 So do bear in mind as you're doing the operation and we see the operator panel says select linked and 07:01.060 --> 07:04.150 we've got some other options down there we're not going to fiddle with those and we're going to whiz 07:04.150 --> 07:11.860 round my object to make sure we have selected it all we have and then hit the P key and then do selection. 07:11.860 --> 07:18.880 So now we've got three pyramids that we can do whatever we like with so we can go ahead grab this pyramid. 07:18.910 --> 07:26.680 Let's move it's going to hit G and I'm going to constrain it to the x y plane so shift and z is going 07:26.680 --> 07:32.680 to place it over there and I'm going to scale it but only on the x and y. 07:32.680 --> 07:36.870 So I'm going to shift Z again and just scale it up like that. 07:36.940 --> 07:41.680 This one here I'm going to scale but only on the Z to make it really really tall. 07:41.680 --> 07:42.610 There we go. 07:42.640 --> 07:48.070 And now we just whiz around to perhaps here we can set ourselves up a nice little scene where we've 07:48.070 --> 07:50.690 got all of our pyramids in place. 07:50.770 --> 07:51.920 There we go. 07:51.970 --> 07:57.940 So there's an example of how you might want to use the array modify how we can go ahead and separate 07:58.030 --> 07:59.440 out our objects. 07:59.440 --> 08:05.860 If you have used an array modifier or indeed want to separate any other mesh data from a particular 08:05.860 --> 08:11.890 mesh object of course the array modifier itself is also incredibly useful for things like stairs. 08:11.890 --> 08:17.980 Now remember you do not have to apply the modifier now a little hint for the challenge coming up when 08:17.980 --> 08:23.740 you have let's say stairs and you produce one stare and you repeat it lots using the array modifier 08:24.010 --> 08:25.630 you end up with a set of stairs. 08:25.630 --> 08:32.030 Now if you wanted to join that back onto our main pyramid you would have to apply the array modifier. 08:32.050 --> 08:34.290 The reason for that is because it's on the object itself. 08:34.300 --> 08:41.500 If you go ahead and join your stairs to the pyramid you will find that if you have not supplied the 08:41.500 --> 08:47.770 array modifier you'll just end up with one step coming across enough of those hints and tips is time 08:47.770 --> 08:51.400 to reveal that challenge creates your stairs. 08:51.430 --> 08:53.040 I bet you guys knew that was coming. 08:53.200 --> 08:59.110 So the steps themselves should run from the bottom to the top or the wife wants you to create your steps 08:59.110 --> 09:05.350 using the array modifier and finish with one meche object at the end so there's a clue that you're going 09:05.350 --> 09:08.090 to have to separate something at some point. 09:08.140 --> 09:10.400 Pause a video now and go give that a go. 09:13.130 --> 09:14.070 Welcome back. 09:14.090 --> 09:21.770 Let's create some stairs for our pyramid's So let's hop straight our Nova in two blender so let's work 09:21.800 --> 09:24.080 on our pyramid too which is this one at the front. 09:24.080 --> 09:28.490 I'm going to leave the other ones in the background just for aesthetics and I'm going to hop on over 09:28.490 --> 09:29.540 into edit mode. 09:29.690 --> 09:35.360 I'm going to start at the bottom you could start at the top if you want and I'm going to zoom in right 09:35.360 --> 09:37.140 to this front area here. 09:37.190 --> 09:40.420 I'm going to go to virtex select and you could do this a number of ways. 09:40.430 --> 09:47.260 And I'm going to turn off merging vertices for the moment because I do want them to be separate. 09:47.690 --> 09:50.800 I'm going to click that virtex THERE and extrude. 09:50.990 --> 09:58.220 So I just created an edge basically another vertex freely floating in space but only on the z axis and 09:58.250 --> 10:03.680 I don't know how far to do it's perhaps point two yes Point two sounds. 10:03.680 --> 10:05.050 Nice point two. 10:05.360 --> 10:12.050 And then I'm going to extrude it in the x axis again by point two. 10:12.080 --> 10:21.470 So that's going to be the outline of our stair and then a select it's there and here and extrude this 10:21.470 --> 10:23.810 way and I'm going to snap it over here. 10:23.810 --> 10:29.510 So in fact in this case I'm going to turn on the snapping edge and move it across until it's on this 10:29.540 --> 10:30.250 edge here. 10:30.260 --> 10:32.330 It's going to cause a few issues. 10:32.330 --> 10:34.940 I only need to lock in the y axis. 10:34.940 --> 10:35.970 There we go. 10:35.970 --> 10:38.110 So now that's our step. 10:38.150 --> 10:40.360 We just need to multiply it several times. 10:40.370 --> 10:45.830 However it's part of this pyramid at the moment so were going to have to select the geometry we want 10:45.830 --> 10:51.410 and in this case it's just these two faces that we've created and then we would separate it with the 10:51.410 --> 10:58.570 P key by selection and it's added it down here so I'm just gonna do that pyramid's to stairs. 11:00.320 --> 11:06.560 Okay so we've got pyramid 2 and Pyramid two stairs and plus there's a what I want to apply the modifier 11:06.560 --> 11:06.710 on. 11:06.710 --> 11:10.160 So we're going to go down to add modifier go to our array. 11:10.670 --> 11:13.250 And nothing's happened twice nothing happened. 11:13.250 --> 11:16.220 Well it's probably disappeared inside the model. 11:16.220 --> 11:16.810 There we go. 11:16.810 --> 11:20.350 If I turn on a wire frame we can see it's disappeared inside the model. 11:20.510 --> 11:24.230 So it's actually going in the x axis in the right direction go one step unit there. 11:24.230 --> 11:30.380 We also want to go one step unit up as well so on Z we want that to go to one. 11:30.560 --> 11:32.780 And there we go we've got our second step. 11:32.810 --> 11:36.980 I haven't a clue how many steps we're going to need to fill up our pyramid. 11:36.980 --> 11:40.780 So I'm just going to increase this number until it looks right. 11:40.940 --> 11:45.890 And zoom around to the top I think we need to more excellent So in this case with a step height and 11:45.890 --> 11:51.010 depth of point to 35 tical get to the top of mine. 11:51.880 --> 11:55.330 Now finally because they don't exist yet only the bottom one does. 11:55.330 --> 12:03.640 I'm going to apply my modifier now I can go in and if I wanted to edit these ever so slightly so I can 12:03.640 --> 12:06.420 make one higher one lower cetera et etc.. 12:06.430 --> 12:08.320 If I wanted to I don't. 12:08.320 --> 12:12.410 But what I do want to do is now merge these two objects back together. 12:12.540 --> 12:20.950 So I'm going to hop over into object mode selector our stairs and our pyramid and press control and 12:20.950 --> 12:23.650 J for join the now together. 12:23.680 --> 12:26.350 And unfortunately it's named pyramid two stairs. 12:26.350 --> 12:27.070 I don't want that. 12:27.070 --> 12:30.160 It's just pyramid by itself at the moment. 12:30.280 --> 12:31.050 And there we go. 12:31.050 --> 12:33.160 We've got our pyramid with stairs. 12:33.340 --> 12:34.150 That's great. 12:34.150 --> 12:36.260 How did you guys get on. 12:36.980 --> 12:38.310 See you in the next lecture.