WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.000 Welcome to Loop Cuts and Face Loops! In 2 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:08.000 this video you're going to build on your knowledge of loop cuttings and 3 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:12.000 how face loops are similar to edge loops. 4 00:00:12.000 --> 00:00:16.000 Let's hop over into Blender! So we have 5 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:20.000 our Pyramid that we've been playing with. Let's go in 6 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:24.000 and add some more detail to this top section. 7 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:28.000 So let's hop on over into Edit Mode and let's 8 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:32.000 zoom in here. Now when you hold down Control and R you 9 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:36.000 enable your Loop Cutting Tool. Now, before we 10 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:40.000 click to actually apply that cut, we can 11 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:44.000 use the Scroll Wheel on our mouse, in order 12 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:48.000 to increase the number of cuts. And that can go up and up 13 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:52.000 and up and up and up, and we can see in the lower-left that that's 35 cuts 14 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:56.000 there. That's a bit too much for this exercise, 15 00:00:56.000 --> 00:01:00.000 so we're going to lower that down to maybe 3 16 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:04.000 or 4. I like 5 actually, 17 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:08.000 in this case. I'm just thinking of what I'm going to do later on. 18 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:12.000 And then, you've got the slide function, once again. 19 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:16.000 Now there's plenty of stuff you can do this with, and I want to actually 20 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:20.000 push this up a little higher anyway. So I've got 21 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:24.000 a nice set of geometry. And this has created a series of edge loops around 22 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:28.000 our model and has cut up our top of this model into 23 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:32.000 several more faces, adding more geometry. 24 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:36.000 And the more geometry we have, the more control we have 25 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:40.000 over our model, the more detailed we can make it. So 26 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:44.000 at this point, I want to select all of these edges going around, 27 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:48.000 so I can bulge it out or move it in or do whatever I want with it. 28 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:52.000 So making sure that the Face Select is on, 29 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:56.000 again holding down Alt will enable you 30 00:01:56.000 --> 00:02:00.000 to select an edge, sorry, a face loop, just like it does 31 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:04.000 with an edge loop. And if we click towards the 32 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:08.000 edge, the left or right edge, it will go around the... 33 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:12.000 Let's call it a cube for the moment, it's not quite. Go around the top this way. 34 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:16.000 If we click towards the top, then it will 35 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:20.000 follow...it'll follow our model around there. 36 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:24.000 So that's great, we can alter things very quickly. And similarly, if we want 37 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:28.000 to alter the height of one of these steps here, we can select 38 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:32.000 a edge loop towards the edge. 39 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:36.000 There we go, got it! And now we can do whatever we want, we can pull that 40 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:40.000 edge loop up and make it some sort of funky hidden thing. We need 41 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:44.000 to fill in some geometry, if we did do that. Ah but you can see how 42 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:48.000 powerful that would be. So I'm just going to undo that, so our pyramid's 43 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:51.633 not too crazy, so you guys can follow. 44 00:02:51.633 --> 00:02:55.600 It's challenge time! I'd like you to create some temple 45 00:02:55.600 --> 00:02:59.600 detail. So to create some extra geometry at the top of the 46 00:02:59.600 --> 00:03:03.600 pyramid, that little square bit at the top, and modify that geometry to 47 00:03:03.600 --> 00:03:07.600 make it a bit more exciting. I'm going to leave what you want to do 48 00:03:07.600 --> 00:03:11.600 to what you want to do. All that I do ask is that you don't make it too 49 00:03:11.600 --> 00:03:15.600 exciting around the top of the stairs, because shortly we'll 50 00:03:15.600 --> 00:03:19.600 be creating a door into our temple, and if it's too exciting 51 00:03:19.600 --> 00:03:23.600 around there, it's going to be more difficult to make the door. But go 52 00:03:23.600 --> 00:03:27.600 wild with it, make it as crazy or as pointy or as large or small as you like. 53 00:03:27.600 --> 00:03:31.600 Go for it! Pause the video now and give that a go! 54 00:03:31.600 --> 00:03:35.600 OK guys, welcome back! Let's hop over 55 00:03:35.600 --> 00:03:39.600 into Blender! Let's see what we can do to the top. So I've 56 00:03:39.600 --> 00:03:43.600 already put lots of cuts in there, that's great. Um, I'm going to 57 00:03:43.600 --> 00:03:47.600 Face Select and I'm going to hold down Alt and select this top ring here. 58 00:03:47.600 --> 00:03:51.600 And I want to... I suppose it's scaling it out but 59 00:03:51.600 --> 00:03:55.600 not up and down, so I 60 00:03:55.600 --> 00:03:59.600 want to limit the Z. So we want to eliminate that by holding down 61 00:03:59.600 --> 00:04:03.600 Shift and Z and pull that out. Now that seems to 62 00:04:03.600 --> 00:04:07.600 be, that's not quite what I want because I still want that lip at the very top, 63 00:04:07.600 --> 00:04:11.600 so I'm going to have to do something else first. So I'm going to 64 00:04:11.600 --> 00:04:15.600 extrude into the same location. So I'm just going to hit 65 00:04:15.600 --> 00:04:19.600 0 to make sure it stays in the same location, and that has generated an 66 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:23.600 edge. We won't see it at the moment, because they're on top of one another. 67 00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:27.600 And now when we scale outwards, we've actually got 68 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:31.600 some extra geometry that prevents the top... I've zoomed in far 69 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:35.600 too far. Sorry guys! Let's scale that out again. 70 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:39.600 I've created an extra bit of geometry, which means that it's not going to bend 71 00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:43.600 the rest of it as we scale out. So I'm happy with that! And let's do 72 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:47.600 just another one around here, 73 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:51.600 but this time I will bend it, so we'll do it slightly differently. 74 00:04:51.600 --> 00:04:55.600 So let's scale this again... Oh uh oh, zoom out! 75 00:04:55.600 --> 00:04:59.600 It's gone a bit crazy there isn't it?! So let's scale that 76 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:03.600 but this time I do want the bulge, but I don't want it over where I'm going to put the... 77 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:07.600 Ah no that's fine where the door is there. And I want to snap it, in this case, 78 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:11.600 so it's level with the roof line. So that's absolutely 79 00:05:11.600 --> 00:05:15.600 fine. I'm going to have to pick a different snapping point, a Face snap. 80 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:19.600 So let's scale that out and draw along this face. No it's not 81 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:23.600 liking that! Let's try a Vertex Select and scale that 82 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:27.600 out, so it's on this edge there. So that was the best way of doing this, 83 00:05:27.600 --> 00:05:31.600 so now they're the same width as one another but slightly different. 84 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:35.600 Excellent! Ah final thing to do on this top here, 85 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:39.600 I'm going to lift it up just a little more, so I'm going to extrude again, 86 00:05:39.600 --> 00:05:43.600 and then, I'm going to scale inwards, so it's got a bit more of 87 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:47.600 a chamfered top. Excellent! That would to do for the moment, that's in 88 00:05:47.600 --> 00:05:51.600 keeping with the rest of our model as well. How did you guys get on?! 89 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:55.600 I really want to see what you made from the top of your temple! Post it in the 90 00:05:55.600 --> 00:05:59.600 discussions, and I will see you in the next lecture! Take care!