WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.433 Welcome to Importing Blender Files! 2 00:00:02.433 --> 00:00:06.433 In this video we'll be showing you how to import multiple 3 00:00:06.433 --> 00:00:10.433 Blender files into a scene. We're going to be learning the difference 4 00:00:10.433 --> 00:00:14.433 between append and linked and understanding that 5 00:00:14.433 --> 00:00:18.433 a composited scene can exist with both types in it. 6 00:00:18.433 --> 00:00:22.433 So appending! So this is great when making a 7 00:00:22.433 --> 00:00:26.433 scene with multiple models. And note here that you have control 8 00:00:26.433 --> 00:00:29.633 over the model, it's scale and position, 9 00:00:29.633 --> 00:00:33.133 and you can edit the model. So it's like taking 10 00:00:33.133 --> 00:00:37.133 a copy into the current Blender file. So a great 11 00:00:37.133 --> 00:00:41.133 example of that would be a coffee table plus two cups, which 12 00:00:41.133 --> 00:00:45.133 are just one .blend file backup, or indeed, you'd never 13 00:00:45.133 --> 00:00:49.133 guess it, a bowling ball plus multiple pins! So let's have 14 00:00:49.133 --> 00:00:53.133 a look at linked! Now, we're making an object 15 00:00:53.133 --> 00:00:57.133 of components, so if it's one object that has multiple 16 00:00:57.133 --> 00:01:01.133 components in it that make up this overall object. 17 00:01:01.133 --> 00:01:05.133 So you do have no control over the model's position, 18 00:01:05.133 --> 00:01:09.133 scale, etc., and you cannot edit 19 00:01:09.133 --> 00:01:13.133 the model, it's done in the source file. So if you need to 20 00:01:13.133 --> 00:01:17.133 adjust anything, when you link an object into your scene, 21 00:01:17.133 --> 00:01:21.133 you have to change the actual .blend file itself and then 22 00:01:21.133 --> 00:01:25.133 reopen the file and it'll come through. A great example there would be like 23 00:01:25.133 --> 00:01:29.133 an anatomical model, where you've got a bone layout 24 00:01:29.133 --> 00:01:33.133 and you want to add muscles on top. Well you can do the muscles in a separate 25 00:01:33.133 --> 00:01:37.133 Blender file and move them in, etc. etc., into the right 26 00:01:37.133 --> 00:01:38.200 position. 27 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:40.966 Let's explore this now in Blender! 28 00:01:40.966 --> 00:01:44.966 So here we are with the bowling ball we've created! Now the first 29 00:01:44.966 --> 00:01:48.966 thing I will want to do is go over into the Outliner here and 30 00:01:48.966 --> 00:01:52.966 just do a bit of tidying up, because we've still got items in here we don't 31 00:01:52.966 --> 00:01:56.966 need, and we're working on this Icosphere. Well let's name that, straight away, 32 00:01:56.966 --> 00:02:00.966 BowlingBall, if you haven't done it already. If you have, well done! Cube, 33 00:02:00.966 --> 00:02:04.966 well we're not using that anymore, so I'm going to delete that, and the same with Sphere. 34 00:02:04.966 --> 00:02:08.966 So we've got a much more simplified model here. Now I'm going to go to 35 00:02:08.966 --> 00:02:12.966 File and Save As, and I'm just going to make sure 36 00:02:12.966 --> 00:02:15.400 that's saved in the right place for me. 37 00:02:16.033 --> 00:02:20.033 There we go, so that is saved! Now, 38 00:02:20.033 --> 00:02:24.033 we're going to open a brand new Blender file, 39 00:02:24.033 --> 00:02:28.033 and the first thing we're going to do is, we're just going to setup a little stage 40 00:02:28.033 --> 00:02:32.033 for this to work on. So I'm going to delete the 41 00:02:32.033 --> 00:02:36.033 Cube that we have there, and then, I'm going to add a 42 00:02:36.033 --> 00:02:40.033 Mesh and I'm just going to add a Plane. Ah that's quite small, at 43 00:02:40.033 --> 00:02:44.033 the moment, so I'm just going to boost that up, let's say 44 00:02:44.033 --> 00:02:48.033 16 on the Radius. So that's a nice floor plane for our stuff to 45 00:02:48.033 --> 00:02:52.033 work on there, so there we go! Let's now 46 00:02:52.033 --> 00:02:56.033 import one of those models! So let's import the bowling ball first of all! 47 00:02:56.033 --> 00:03:00.033 See to do that you'll want to go to File, and we've got our two 48 00:03:00.033 --> 00:03:04.033 options down here, we've got Link and Append. Now, 49 00:03:04.033 --> 00:03:08.033 in this case, if we Link all of this stuff in, it will appear at the origin 50 00:03:08.033 --> 00:03:12.033 in the middle of our screen, because that's where the model was produced and 51 00:03:12.033 --> 00:03:16.033 it will be of no use to us, so we are going to be using Append. 52 00:03:16.033 --> 00:03:20.033 So you simply go to File, Append, 53 00:03:20.033 --> 00:03:24.033 or you can use Shift and F1, and then, go find your file. 54 00:03:24.033 --> 00:03:28.033 So mine is in my bowling assets folder. Now you 55 00:03:28.033 --> 00:03:32.033 obviously will have setup a project folder and be working 56 00:03:32.033 --> 00:03:36.033 from that, so go grab your Bowling Ball from there. Once you've clicked on 57 00:03:36.033 --> 00:03:40.033 Bowling Ball, it's not opened it up, it's opened up this new 58 00:03:40.033 --> 00:03:44.033 hierarchy, so a .blend file is a container file of 59 00:03:44.033 --> 00:03:48.033 lots of other Blender objects, settings, etc. as you can see down there. 60 00:03:48.466 --> 00:03:52.200 And we want Object, so click on 61 00:03:52.200 --> 00:03:56.200 Object, and there's our Bowling Ball. And if we hadn't renamed 62 00:03:56.200 --> 00:04:00.200 it, that would have said Icosphere and there would have Cube and UV 63 00:04:00.200 --> 00:04:04.200 Sphere or just Sphere down here, as well. So we want Bowling Ball, you can double-click that, 64 00:04:04.200 --> 00:04:08.200 or just click here and then click Append from Library up here, there's the 65 00:04:08.200 --> 00:04:12.200 Bowling Ball in our scene! Now it's come in on the origin. I'm just going to 66 00:04:12.200 --> 00:04:16.200 shift it over now, because the next thing I'm going to ask you to do 67 00:04:16.200 --> 00:04:20.200 is import the pin. So it's challenge 68 00:04:20.200 --> 00:04:21.400 time! 69 00:04:21.400 --> 00:04:25.400 It's time to Import the Bowling Pin! So go ahead now 70 00:04:25.400 --> 00:04:29.400 and import the pin, and do make sure that your bowling ball 71 00:04:29.400 --> 00:04:33.400 and pin are the same relative scale. 72 00:04:33.400 --> 00:04:37.400 So pause the video now and go give that a go! 73 00:04:37.400 --> 00:04:41.400 OK guys, welcome back! Let's hop straight 74 00:04:41.400 --> 00:04:43.333 on over into Blender! 75 00:04:43.333 --> 00:04:47.333 Right, so let's get this pin into our scene! So I'm going to 76 00:04:47.333 --> 00:04:51.333 go to File, Append. Now, I'm already 77 00:04:51.333 --> 00:04:55.333 here, I'm just going to click up one, because I know... Ooh, and again 78 00:04:55.333 --> 00:04:59.333 and there's my Bowling Pin. So now that's in our... 79 00:04:59.333 --> 00:05:03.333 There Object and Pin. Append from Library. 80 00:05:03.333 --> 00:05:07.333 So we can see here that the ball and the pin 81 00:05:07.333 --> 00:05:11.333 are at different scales. In fact, I think the 82 00:05:11.333 --> 00:05:15.333 bowling ball itself, because of my mistake earlier, 83 00:05:15.333 --> 00:05:19.333 is just over twice the size. Instead of making it a 84 00:05:19.333 --> 00:05:23.333 Diameter of 2.16, I made it a 85 00:05:23.333 --> 00:05:27.333 Radius of 2.6. So my mistake, but we'll go 86 00:05:27.333 --> 00:05:31.333 ahead and correct that now. Now we have two options, if we knew 87 00:05:31.333 --> 00:05:35.333 we were going to use this ball over and over and over again, then what 88 00:05:35.333 --> 00:05:39.333 we'd want to do is edit the initial .blend file 89 00:05:39.333 --> 00:05:41.833 of the bowling ball itself, otherwise 90 00:05:42.500 --> 00:05:46.500 we could edit it in the scene as well. So because we've appended it, we can just 91 00:05:46.500 --> 00:05:50.500 multiply it by a scale factor to bring it back to the right amount. 92 00:05:50.500 --> 00:05:54.500 I'm going to do things quite properly, because there's a good chance that I'll want 93 00:05:54.500 --> 00:05:58.500 to use this bowling ball at some other point, in either this course 94 00:05:58.500 --> 00:06:02.500 or in a game I'm producing or something else. I don't want to have to keep remembering 95 00:06:02.500 --> 00:06:06.500 to rescale it. So I'm going to Save my file 96 00:06:06.500 --> 00:06:10.500 now, and I'm going to call this 97 00:06:10.500 --> 00:06:14.500 Bowling Alley. Why not, it's descriptive of what we're doing. 98 00:06:14.500 --> 00:06:18.500 And just save that file. Great! I'm now going 99 00:06:18.500 --> 00:06:22.500 to go back to my original bowling ball. 100 00:06:22.500 --> 00:06:26.500 There we go! And we're going to have to change the scaling on 101 00:06:26.500 --> 00:06:30.500 this. Now, I've already done the math and the basic 102 00:06:30.500 --> 00:06:34.500 scale here, because... Oh, I don't want calendar, I want 103 00:06:34.500 --> 00:06:38.500 calculator. ...we have a bowling ball that 104 00:06:38.500 --> 00:06:42.500 is 2.6 in diameter, it should have been in radius. So 105 00:06:42.500 --> 00:06:46.500 we can already sort of guess we're going to be multiplying it by something like 0.5 to half 106 00:06:46.500 --> 00:06:50.500 the size, but the proper radius it should have been is... 107 00:06:50.500 --> 00:06:54.500 Well Diameter was 2.16 and 108 00:06:54.500 --> 00:06:58.500 this is going to be 1.08. 109 00:06:58.500 --> 00:07:02.500 So we need to do 1.08, which is 110 00:07:02.500 --> 00:07:06.500 our size we want it to be, and the size it currently is is 111 00:07:06.500 --> 00:07:10.500 2.6, so I'm going to divide that by 2.6. 112 00:07:10.500 --> 00:07:14.500 And we can see there, I need to scale this by a factor 113 00:07:14.500 --> 00:07:18.500 of 0.415. I'm not going to worry about the other bits 114 00:07:18.500 --> 00:07:21.066 involved there, so 0.415. OK, 115 00:07:21.800 --> 00:07:25.800 so scale with the S key. Oh, that's selected first! 116 00:07:25.800 --> 00:07:29.800 Scale with the S key. Excellent! And 117 00:07:29.800 --> 00:07:33.800 then, we need to just go 0.415 118 00:07:33.800 --> 00:07:37.800 Enter, and we're going to 119 00:07:37.800 --> 00:07:41.800 save that now. So that's over it in the bowling ball, and it's now the right 120 00:07:41.800 --> 00:07:45.800 relative size to the other model. Now, I'm going to go File, 121 00:07:45.800 --> 00:07:49.800 definitely saved it, and I'm going to go Open and go to our Bowling 122 00:07:49.800 --> 00:07:53.800 Alley. And you'll notice that this hasn't changed and that's because it's 123 00:07:53.800 --> 00:07:57.800 appended and not linked. So I'm just going to Delete that from our 124 00:07:57.800 --> 00:08:01.800 scene, and I'm going to go File, Append, 125 00:08:01.800 --> 00:08:05.800 go up up, and go to our Bowling Ball, 126 00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:09.800 and go to Object, go to Bowling Ball, and Append 127 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:13.800 from Library. Now if you got the scaling right the first time, 128 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:17.800 unlike me, then you wouldn't have to go though that. But there are 129 00:08:17.800 --> 00:08:19.466 going to be times when you 130 00:08:19.466 --> 00:08:22.266 mess up your scale, at some point. 131 00:08:22.266 --> 00:08:26.266 Don't worry! And in this case, the bowling ball was so simple we could almost go back 132 00:08:26.266 --> 00:08:30.266 and model it again, but that's not always going to be the case. You're going to come 133 00:08:30.266 --> 00:08:34.266 across a, you've spent hours and hours doing something and it's one and a 134 00:08:34.266 --> 00:08:38.266 half times too big or something silly like that. Don't worry, you can always scale it 135 00:08:38.266 --> 00:08:42.266 back down. This is a 3D Modeling package, you can do anything! OK, 136 00:08:42.266 --> 00:08:46.266 so that's our scene basically setup there! We need to 137 00:08:46.266 --> 00:08:49.433 do a few more things, and we'll do that in the next lecture. Now, 138 00:08:49.866 --> 00:08:53.866 go ahead and share in the discussions how you got on, and I will see 139 00:08:53.866 --> 00:08:57.700 you in the next lecture! Take care!