WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.000 Welcome to Planning our Project! So in this video 2 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:08.000 we're going to check out the design specs of a chess board, make sure we get 3 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:12.000 some descent reference material in there. We're going to design our chess board using 4 00:00:12.000 --> 00:00:16.000 that information, and from that, we're going to design 5 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:20.000 our working scale so we've got our scale right, 6 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:24.000 across all of the pieces and the board, etc. Now finally, we're going to play 7 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:27.600 about in Blender, to get it feeling right. 8 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:29.900 OK guys, straight away a challenge for you! 9 00:00:29.900 --> 00:00:33.900 I'd like you to go and plan the project yourself, see how you get on with it! 10 00:00:33.900 --> 00:00:37.900 So go off and research chess sets, see if you can get a feeling, 11 00:00:37.900 --> 00:00:41.900 there's some good information out there! Look for, particularly, 12 00:00:41.900 --> 00:00:45.900 the piece dimension and size, that's going to be important, then, 13 00:00:45.900 --> 00:00:48.033 think about the set as a whole. 14 00:00:48.033 --> 00:00:49.633 It took me about 15 00:00:49.633 --> 00:00:53.633 10 to 15 minutes to go through all the research materials and just 16 00:00:53.633 --> 00:00:57.633 play about and think about the actual set as a whole. 17 00:00:57.633 --> 00:01:01.633 So pause the video now, go off and spend a couple of minutes doing 18 00:01:01.633 --> 00:01:05.633 the research and looking at dimensions and sizes, and come up with 19 00:01:05.633 --> 00:01:09.633 your own strategy for this project. What size are the pieces 20 00:01:09.633 --> 00:01:13.633 going to be in Blender? What scale are you modeling to? OK, pause the video 21 00:01:13.633 --> 00:01:17.200 now, and I will see you in a few moments! 22 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:21.200 Hello and welcome back! How did you get on? 23 00:01:21.200 --> 00:01:25.200 So first of all, let's look at the king's dimensions! 24 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:29.200 So through the research, I've seen that the height of the king 25 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:32.733 is about 9.5 centimeters. 26 00:01:32.733 --> 00:01:34.966 The king's base is somewhere 27 00:01:34.966 --> 00:01:38.966 between 40 and 50% of the height, and the diameter 28 00:01:38.966 --> 00:01:42.966 of the base will therefore, calculated, will be somewhere between 29 00:01:42.966 --> 00:01:46.966 3.8 and 4.75 centimeters. The 30 00:01:46.966 --> 00:01:50.966 chess board square dimension. Now, there's a few 31 00:01:50.966 --> 00:01:54.966 sources out there, but I found out that the king's base is going to be approximately 32 00:01:54.966 --> 00:01:58.966 75% of the square. The square is about two 33 00:01:58.966 --> 00:02:02.966 times the diameter of the pawn's base, and a square is typically 34 00:02:02.966 --> 00:02:06.966 somewhere between 5 and 6 1/2 centimeters across. 35 00:02:06.966 --> 00:02:10.966 So we can then calculate the a pawn's base is going to 36 00:02:10.966 --> 00:02:14.966 be somewhere between 2.5 and 3.25 centimeters. 37 00:02:14.966 --> 00:02:18.966 So taking all of that into account, what I've done 38 00:02:18.966 --> 00:02:22.966 is I've come up with these chosen dimensions, nice numbers there, and 39 00:02:22.966 --> 00:02:26.966 just to show you how they visually fit in my mind as well. So the chosen 40 00:02:26.966 --> 00:02:30.966 dimensions, we can see that the King's position 41 00:02:30.966 --> 00:02:34.966 and size is about 4.5 42 00:02:34.966 --> 00:02:36.666 centimeters across, 43 00:02:36.666 --> 00:02:38.933 which is 75% 44 00:02:38.933 --> 00:02:42.933 of 6 centimeters which is our chosen square size. Nice large numbers 45 00:02:42.933 --> 00:02:46.933 there! And going on the other side, I've decided that the 46 00:02:46.933 --> 00:02:50.933 Pawn will be 3 centimeters, which also fits into our 6 centimeters 47 00:02:50.933 --> 00:02:54.933 and also has that nice whole number there. And finally, the other's position 48 00:02:54.933 --> 00:02:58.933 and size, well it's not going to be as large as the King or as small as the Pawn, so I've thought 49 00:02:58.933 --> 00:03:02.933 4 centimeters would be perfect for that. So there 50 00:03:02.933 --> 00:03:06.933 we go! We just need to hop into Blender now and just do a scale test, 51 00:03:06.933 --> 00:03:10.933 to make sure that we're going to be working in the right scale in Blender itself. 52 00:03:11.633 --> 00:03:15.633 So in our wonderful default Blender file, 53 00:03:15.633 --> 00:03:19.633 I'm just going to Delete our cube there. Alright, we've got 54 00:03:19.633 --> 00:03:23.633 a 6 centimeter square and there's going to be 55 00:03:23.633 --> 00:03:27.633 8 of them. So I'm just looking at the scale of the board itself, at the moment. 56 00:03:27.633 --> 00:03:31.633 So I'm just going to quickly create us a Plane. It just 57 00:03:31.633 --> 00:03:35.633 has to be a flat plane there. Brilliant! And 6 times 58 00:03:35.633 --> 00:03:39.633 8 is 48, so it's going to have a Radius of 59 00:03:39.633 --> 00:03:43.633 half of that, which is 24. 60 00:03:43.633 --> 00:03:47.633 Let's see how that looks! Alright, that's pretty big! 61 00:03:47.633 --> 00:03:51.633 I'm going to keep it like that, for the moment, because I do like the whole numbers. 62 00:03:51.633 --> 00:03:55.633 I don't really want to start dealing with decimals, just at this moment. 63 00:03:55.633 --> 00:03:59.633 We can always scale later on. Let's just save that! 64 00:03:59.633 --> 00:04:03.633 Save and I'm going to save 65 00:04:03.633 --> 00:04:07.633 it as Chessboard. Excellent! And 66 00:04:07.633 --> 00:04:11.633 I'm just going to add a tiny bit of detail to this, so please excuse me 67 00:04:11.633 --> 00:04:15.633 while I hop into Edit Mode, Subdivide this a couple 68 00:04:15.633 --> 00:04:19.633 of times. So we've just got our grid there, hop 69 00:04:19.633 --> 00:04:23.633 out of Edit Mode, and Save it. Brilliant! I'm now going to 70 00:04:23.633 --> 00:04:27.633 create another new Blender file. I could make it in here. I should, 71 00:04:27.633 --> 00:04:31.633 let's just make it in here! So in Edit Mode, I'm just going to 72 00:04:31.633 --> 00:04:35.633 find myself... There will do, roughly, 73 00:04:35.633 --> 00:04:39.633 and that'll be on there. Yes it is! Perfect! And just create a 74 00:04:39.633 --> 00:04:43.633 Cylinder, which is going to represent our 75 00:04:43.633 --> 00:04:47.633 king. Let's do the largest piece on there. So it's going 76 00:04:47.633 --> 00:04:51.633 to have a Radius. Since we're stuck to a centimeter being a Blender unit, that's 77 00:04:51.633 --> 00:04:55.633 nice and straight forward. It's 4.5, so 78 00:04:55.633 --> 00:04:59.633 2.25 on the Radius, so there we go there! And 79 00:04:59.633 --> 00:05:03.633 the height is going to be, so Depth here will be 9.5, 80 00:05:03.633 --> 00:05:07.633 which represents 9.5, and we can see it's gone around 81 00:05:07.633 --> 00:05:11.633 the axis there. So in the Transform, just up here, 82 00:05:11.633 --> 00:05:15.633 I'm going to set the Z height 83 00:05:15.633 --> 00:05:19.633 to be 4.75, 84 00:05:19.633 --> 00:05:23.633 I think. There we go! So we've got 85 00:05:23.633 --> 00:05:27.633 our... That's what it will look like, roughly, here! Now, I do 86 00:05:27.633 --> 00:05:31.633 like the fact that this is going to be a bit big. I'm not 87 00:05:31.633 --> 00:05:35.633 happy with it being massively larger than the stage there. It's still within our 100 88 00:05:35.633 --> 00:05:39.633 Blender unit limit, that we should stick to, but they are 89 00:05:39.633 --> 00:05:43.633 whole numbers and that is quite important, especially when teaching you guys 90 00:05:43.633 --> 00:05:47.633 because I tend to get numbers wrong, occasionally, as the previous 91 00:05:47.633 --> 00:05:51.633 section showed. So we're going to stick to whole numbers here. 92 00:05:51.633 --> 00:05:55.633 I mean, I'd like it half the size of this, you see we're already in the 10th but there's lots of 0.0's, 93 00:05:55.633 --> 00:05:59.633 0.25's, and all that going on, so I'm going to avoid that for the moment 94 00:05:59.633 --> 00:06:03.633 and build it at this scale. I'm happy that it's not going to be too big, and it'll also 95 00:06:03.633 --> 00:06:07.633 be representative of what we're working with. So there we go, we've hopped into 96 00:06:07.633 --> 00:06:11.633 Blender and basically mocked up a chess board, really quickly, 97 00:06:11.633 --> 00:06:15.133 just to see how things would sit on it. 98 00:06:15.400 --> 00:06:19.400 So there we go, and I will see you in the next lecture!