WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.500 Welcome back, Ben with you again! 2 00:00:03.500 --> 00:00:07.500 We're going to be talking about Assigning Materials to Faces! We want to put some stripes 3 00:00:07.500 --> 00:00:11.500 around the neck of our pin. So in this video we will introduce the Material Properties 4 00:00:11.500 --> 00:00:15.500 Panel, tell you how to create and name materials. 5 00:00:15.500 --> 00:00:19.500 We'll be talking briefly about users of materials and how that impacts trying to delete 6 00:00:19.500 --> 00:00:23.500 them, and we'll also, of course, show you how to assign a material to 7 00:00:23.500 --> 00:00:27.500 the face. So the bit I want to bring your attention to is, on the 8 00:00:27.500 --> 00:00:31.500 right-hand side of Blender over here in this panel 9 00:00:31.500 --> 00:00:35.500 here. Now, what is the panel? It's called Properties! You can see from the icon. So in the Properties 10 00:00:35.500 --> 00:00:39.500 Panel, I want you to make it a little bit larger, and you can actually scroll 11 00:00:39.500 --> 00:00:43.500 left and right. There's a lot of little controls in the Properties Panel, I'll show you. I can 12 00:00:43.500 --> 00:00:47.500 either hold down the Middle Mouse Button or I could scroll up and down, 13 00:00:47.500 --> 00:00:51.500 or for the sake of clarity, I'm just going to make the panel bigger for you guys. OK. 14 00:00:51.500 --> 00:00:55.500 So click on materials there! And what I want you to do, to start with, so that 15 00:00:55.500 --> 00:00:59.500 this view looks like the slide is, I want you to go to where I'm hovering 16 00:00:59.500 --> 00:01:03.500 at the top rightish where it says "Add a new material slot", because the materials 17 00:01:03.500 --> 00:01:07.500 panel slot's very very sparse. There's no slots, there's nothing to be had. So you 18 00:01:07.500 --> 00:01:11.500 click plus and now you're going to get a little bit more information, 19 00:01:11.500 --> 00:01:15.500 and then, I want you to click New. So we've made a slot, it's just an empty 20 00:01:15.500 --> 00:01:19.500 slot for a material on the pin. Now click New. And that's 21 00:01:19.500 --> 00:01:23.500 now you're going to get to this view, which can look a little overwhelming, especially if you scroll down. 22 00:01:23.500 --> 00:01:27.500 A lot of stuff there! I just want to focus above this line here, for now. 23 00:01:27.500 --> 00:01:31.500 So I've got a slide for you, which will help you to focus your eye in on what's going on 24 00:01:31.500 --> 00:01:35.500 at the very top of this Materials Panel. So we've already done the thing at the top, which is we've 25 00:01:35.500 --> 00:01:39.500 selected the Material Tab. The next thing you see is a bread crumb, it basically 26 00:01:39.500 --> 00:01:43.500 tells you where we are. What are we dealing with? Are we looking at the scene? That's that 27 00:01:43.500 --> 00:01:47.500 first little icon. Then, the cube is the object that we're dealing with, and then, we're 28 00:01:47.500 --> 00:01:51.500 looking at the materials of the cube. So it just reminds you where you are and what you're working on. 29 00:01:51.500 --> 00:01:55.500 The next list is a list of applied materials, or it's 30 00:01:55.500 --> 00:01:59.500 at least a list of material slots for this particular object, 31 00:01:59.500 --> 00:02:03.500 so now the pin has one material slot. And we did that on the right- 32 00:02:03.500 --> 00:02:07.500 hand side, with the Add, Remove, Copy/Paste buttons. And then, you've got another 33 00:02:07.500 --> 00:02:11.500 little sliver along the bottom, which we're going to be using a lot, which is where you actually manage the material. 34 00:02:11.500 --> 00:02:15.500 So let's dive back into Blender and take a look at how this works! So 35 00:02:15.500 --> 00:02:19.500 here we made a Material slot, and you can make your Material slot panel 36 00:02:19.500 --> 00:02:23.500 bigger if you like, by dragging like this. And we created a new one, and we called it 37 00:02:23.500 --> 00:02:27.500 Material. Well let's call it Pin. So click into here, where I'm highlighting, and type 38 00:02:27.500 --> 00:02:31.500 Pin and Return. And now, you'll see that we have a material 39 00:02:31.500 --> 00:02:35.500 called Pin. OK, now there's another type of material we're going to 40 00:02:35.500 --> 00:02:39.500 want on the pin, of course, which is going to be for the stripes around the neck. So let's 41 00:02:39.500 --> 00:02:43.500 go ahead and make a second slot. Now, 42 00:02:43.500 --> 00:02:47.500 you get a simplified interface. You need to make a second material. 43 00:02:47.500 --> 00:02:51.500 There it is, again it calls it Material, and we're going to call it Stripe. 44 00:02:51.500 --> 00:02:55.500 So now we have two materials, Pin and Stripe. And if you click 45 00:02:55.500 --> 00:02:59.500 here, to the left of the word Pin or Stripe, you'll see Browse Materials. You can also 46 00:02:59.500 --> 00:03:03.500 see those two materials. This is like a library of materials that you could pick up, and you can 47 00:03:03.500 --> 00:03:07.500 actually apply these to other objects in the scene, if you want later. There's some other more advanced 48 00:03:07.500 --> 00:03:11.500 controls over here, we're not going to worry about for now. What we do need to do is give our stripe a 49 00:03:11.500 --> 00:03:15.500 different color. So if you scroll down a little bit, you'll see under defuse, which is the 50 00:03:15.500 --> 00:03:19.500 color that it scatters off in all directions, it's currently white. Let's make it whatever you like, let's say 51 00:03:19.500 --> 00:03:23.500 red. OK, so we have two different materials, they're both 52 00:03:23.500 --> 00:03:27.500 simple diffuse materials. You can see the preview here, one is just a kind of very 53 00:03:27.500 --> 00:03:31.500 boring gray color and the other is a slightly more interesting red color. 54 00:03:31.500 --> 00:03:35.500 OK fantastic! So what I want you to do 55 00:03:35.500 --> 00:03:39.500 then is to go into Edit Mode, because now that we've setup 56 00:03:39.500 --> 00:03:43.500 our materials for our pin we cannot apply them to individual faces, until 57 00:03:43.500 --> 00:03:47.500 we are inside Edit Mode. So let's go into Edit Mode! 58 00:03:47.500 --> 00:03:51.500 Alright, and then, what I want you to do, once you're in Edit Mode, is I'm going to challenge you 59 00:03:51.500 --> 00:03:55.500 to actually create the two stripes around the neck of the pin. I'm going to choose 60 00:03:55.500 --> 00:03:59.500 a couple of face loops, this one here and maybe one a little bit 61 00:03:59.500 --> 00:04:03.500 further up, but I'm going to leave it to you to actually do this for yourself. 62 00:04:03.500 --> 00:04:03.933 63 00:04:03.933 --> 00:04:07.933 I just want to bring your attention to one more thing, which is now that you've entered 64 00:04:07.933 --> 00:04:11.933 Edit Mode, three new buttons have come up here in the 65 00:04:11.933 --> 00:04:16.866 panel on the right-hand side, under the materials slots. You have Assign, Select, and Deselect 66 00:04:16.866 --> 00:04:19.932 The Select button selects all the faces that have the 67 00:04:19.933 --> 00:04:23.933 material that you have selected in the list above on them on. 68 00:04:23.933 --> 00:04:27.933 so have a go with that, and the Deselect button does the opposite - it 69 00:04:27.933 --> 00:04:31.933 de-selects all the faces that have the material that you have selected above on 70 00:04:31.933 --> 00:04:33.633 them, so can be pretty powerful. 71 00:04:33.633 --> 00:04:36.666 So Assign assigns the currently selected 72 00:04:36.666 --> 00:04:40.666 material, in the slots above, to the geometry that you have selected 73 00:04:40.666 --> 00:04:44.666 in the Scene View. The Select button selects the entire thing, 74 00:04:44.666 --> 00:04:48.666 so the pin, and Deselect would just deselect the entire object, 75 00:04:48.666 --> 00:04:52.666 i.e. the pin. So if you wanted, for example, to apply the pin material to the whole 76 00:04:52.666 --> 00:04:56.666 object, then you would click Select, which would select the whole pin, click on the word 77 00:04:56.666 --> 00:05:00.666 Pin, and then click Assign. You'll actually find that's already happened, by default, when you create your 78 00:05:00.666 --> 00:05:04.666 first material, it gets assigned to the entire object. So when you're going to make this stripe, 79 00:05:04.666 --> 00:05:08.666 you're going to need to select the face loop geometry, 80 00:05:08.666 --> 00:05:12.666 by doing that in the 3D View. Then, you're going to need 81 00:05:12.666 --> 00:05:16.666 to select the strip and click the Assign button. So those three buttons only come up in Edit Mode. 82 00:05:16.666 --> 00:05:16.899 83 00:05:16.900 --> 00:05:20.833 So select a face loop for one stripe. 84 00:05:20.833 --> 00:05:24.833 Hint, you can select a face loop by holding down the Alt key in Edit mode and 85 00:05:24.833 --> 00:05:28.833 then using Face Select, so you've seen that in a previous video with 86 00:05:28.833 --> 00:05:32.833 Mikey. Assign the Stripe material to that face loop, and then, repeat 87 00:05:32.833 --> 00:05:36.833 again for another face loop to create the second stripe. So basically, 88 00:05:36.833 --> 00:05:40.833 make two stripes on your pin. Go ahead, pause the video, and try that now! 89 00:05:40.833 --> 00:05:44.833 Cool! Welcome back! So let's take a look! 90 00:05:44.833 --> 00:05:48.833 A few things to check, before we go! Firstly, you do need to be in Edit Mode here, because we are dealing at a Face 91 00:05:48.833 --> 00:05:52.833 Level, not just an object level. Second thing is, I want to make sure you are in Blender Render here, 92 00:05:52.833 --> 00:05:56.833 you'll get some very different menus if you're not. OK fantastic! So we 93 00:05:56.833 --> 00:06:00.833 need to select a face loop. So we go into Face Select Mode, down at the bottom of our screen, 94 00:06:00.833 --> 00:06:04.833 and then, we hold down Alt and then 95 00:06:04.833 --> 00:06:08.833 we click on one of the faces 96 00:06:08.833 --> 00:06:12.833 and there you go, we get a face loop selected. Now, with the 97 00:06:12.833 --> 00:06:16.833 correct material selected over here, you click Assign. 98 00:06:16.833 --> 00:06:20.833 Boom, there we go! Now to do it for the other one, it's the same job! You hold down, you 99 00:06:20.833 --> 00:06:24.833 right-click, face loop is selected, click Assign. 100 00:06:24.833 --> 00:06:28.833 Perfect! Look at that, we have stripes on our pin! Now you can preview this in various ways, you can come 101 00:06:28.833 --> 00:06:32.833 out into Object Mode, if you wish, and then, this is where you can use the various different 102 00:06:32.833 --> 00:06:36.833 rendering modes for the Viewport. You could say Wireframe. Now in Wireframe, of course, you're not gonig to see 103 00:06:36.833 --> 00:06:40.833 any of the materials, that's the whole point of Wireframe. You could go to solid 104 00:06:40.833 --> 00:06:44.833 colored. Now this is just a very fast preview mode, for use inside the 105 00:06:44.833 --> 00:06:48.833 Viewport here, for when you have complex models, and you do see your colors there, whcih is cool! 106 00:06:48.833 --> 00:06:52.833 You could go to texture, which is similar, but it's actually using the scene lighting now. It's just 107 00:06:52.833 --> 00:06:56.833 using this Lamp, which is why you only see it lit from one side. Or 108 00:06:56.833 --> 00:07:00.833 you could go to Rendered. Let's just leave it with that, and that would show you what the final 109 00:07:00.833 --> 00:07:04.833 Blender Render output may look like. But for now, we are just considering 110 00:07:04.833 --> 00:07:08.833 solid, which we have been all along. We are staying with default lighting, 111 00:07:08.833 --> 00:07:12.833 and we're just trying to get different faces, different colors. And we've done it, we've got a whole ring of faces 112 00:07:12.833 --> 00:07:16.833 in red, which is pretty cool! So congratulations with 113 00:07:16.833 --> 00:07:20.833 that! Do feel free to customize these things, if you want. You can always click back 114 00:07:20.833 --> 00:07:24.833 onto the Pin. You can go back, say, into the Pin's material 115 00:07:24.833 --> 00:07:28.833 and play with its Diffuse color here and have a vile different color for the 116 00:07:28.833 --> 00:07:32.833 pin, if you wish. You can also do the same for the stripe, and if you want 117 00:07:32.833 --> 00:07:36.833 to get a little bit more adventurous, we're going to explain all this later in the course. But if 118 00:07:36.833 --> 00:07:40.833 you want to play with things like Specularity, and some of these other things, it's not going to do any harm 119 00:07:40.833 --> 00:07:44.833 you're welcome to go and explore! But for now, the important thing is that you know how to put like a white 120 00:07:44.833 --> 00:07:48.833 color or whatever color you like, on the back of the pin, and a different color on those 121 00:07:48.833 --> 00:07:52.833 face loops around there. So well done, 122 00:07:52.833 --> 00:07:55.833 you've got a colored pin! And we'll see you soon!