WEBVTT 00:00.700 --> 00:04.480 Hello and welcome to measure objects and meshed data. 00:04.630 --> 00:09.070 In this video we're going to start creating our chess board itself. 00:09.070 --> 00:16.120 We're going to replace a cube at mesh objects mesh data and you'll see how that can be very useful later 00:16.120 --> 00:16.750 on. 00:16.750 --> 00:20.260 And we're going to demonstrate the grid mesh option too. 00:20.290 --> 00:24.090 So with that in mind as hop straight on over in a blender. 00:25.000 --> 00:30.220 Okay so here we are over in blender I'm just going to rejigger my screen ever so slightly so we can 00:30.220 --> 00:34.860 see the outliner because that's where I want to pay attention to first. 00:34.870 --> 00:40.660 We've got three objects in our scene one of which is a mesh object and we can see that with the icon 00:40.690 --> 00:42.430 against the cube. 00:42.430 --> 00:48.280 Now if we click the little plus next to cube we will see that it's got some meshed data and against 00:48.280 --> 00:49.200 that mesh data. 00:49.210 --> 00:54.860 There is a material and against that material there is potentially a texture as well. 00:55.120 --> 01:01.420 And these are all different types of data blocks in a blender and we'll discuss that in much further 01:01.420 --> 01:03.810 detail later on in the course. 01:04.060 --> 01:08.440 But suffice to say at the moment we just need to concern ourselves with the fact that when we're in 01:08.500 --> 01:14.130 object mode we're manipulating the objects themselves and will we're in edit mode. 01:14.140 --> 01:17.750 We're editing the mesh data of that object. 01:17.920 --> 01:24.400 So in this particular case I could go ahead and delete that meche data and then you'll have a mesh object 01:24.400 --> 01:31.630 called cube with mesh data that's completely void It's got nothing in hits associated with that mesh 01:31.690 --> 01:32.580 object. 01:32.860 --> 01:39.760 Now incidentally if we are in edit mode of mesh object you can continue adding further meshes so I can 01:39.760 --> 01:42.520 add a Taurus and put it over there in notice. 01:42.550 --> 01:48.550 At the moment I can select the individual vertices Well I can add in an ecosphere and pop it over there 01:49.060 --> 01:52.510 and I can let's just add in one more for the sake of it. 01:52.510 --> 01:58.630 There we go we've got a normal uep there now as we're adding these things in. 01:58.750 --> 02:03.010 I would just add another one because I can't demonstrate what I want to demonstrate as I'm adding them 02:03.040 --> 02:04.960 in if we take a look at the. 02:04.960 --> 02:12.100 Operator panel down in the lower right we will see that it does give us an opportunity to adjust the 02:12.100 --> 02:16.090 number of vertices for something all or whatever you happen to be making. 02:16.090 --> 02:20.980 The options will be there of course what as soon as I moved one of these the operator panel this appeared 02:20.980 --> 02:26.800 if I wanted to change the number of sides this has this particular cylinder I would have to go ahead 02:26.800 --> 02:29.840 and either delete it or manually modify it. 02:29.950 --> 02:30.820 And I'm not going to do that. 02:30.820 --> 02:32.280 This is just for an example. 02:32.500 --> 02:38.800 So now when we zoom out a little and come out of edit mode and back into object mode we noticed we still 02:38.800 --> 02:41.650 got a mesh object called CUPE. 02:41.860 --> 02:47.140 Well that's no good and all sorted shapes so ungrammatical this shapes for the moment. 02:47.140 --> 02:52.650 Again good with naming names things as you change them and keep them appropriate. 02:52.660 --> 02:57.880 Now if we actually go down to the Properties window itself and again I'm going to pull this out ever 02:57.880 --> 03:01.200 so slightly so we can focus on it a little more. 03:01.210 --> 03:06.920 You've got a load of different types of options that you can look at the properties for. 03:07.090 --> 03:09.060 Now there are two in particular. 03:09.070 --> 03:13.740 There's the object properties and then there's the data properties. 03:13.930 --> 03:20.220 And we've got the object properties which is just the golden or orange cube there. 03:20.230 --> 03:21.760 And we can see its name shapes. 03:21.760 --> 03:29.860 I can edit the Nane there and let's call its shape and you'll notice that the name changes in the hierarch 03:29.860 --> 03:32.630 in the outline at the top as well. 03:32.770 --> 03:35.070 They are the same entity. 03:35.110 --> 03:40.610 Now we've got other options like the object the mesh objects location rotation scale. 03:40.630 --> 03:45.760 So this is yet another place as well as the end of the properties panel that you can change these settings 03:46.120 --> 03:46.940 as we see here. 03:46.940 --> 03:53.050 I'm now moving the object properties in the properties panel and it's updating but it's also Or it also 03:53.050 --> 03:55.170 can be done down here as well. 03:56.590 --> 04:03.840 Now the mesh data itself we can see that if we go along just a couple we get that triangle symbol again 04:03.850 --> 04:06.950 if we click on that we see the mesh data itself. 04:07.120 --> 04:09.980 Now mesh data can be shared as well. 04:10.000 --> 04:15.130 And sometimes you will see extra numbers on the end of this name. 04:15.130 --> 04:16.590 Here obviously we've got it caught. 04:16.600 --> 04:24.670 Q At the moment so I can change that to shapes and be really detailed in my naming and this shapes is 04:24.730 --> 04:28.910 all of the mesh information that's part of this mesh object. 04:28.950 --> 04:36.490 Now you can't have more than one and mesh data against one mesh object at that point you'd have another 04:36.490 --> 04:37.750 mesh object. 04:37.750 --> 04:39.480 Now where does this all lead us to. 04:39.490 --> 04:40.790 I hear you cry. 04:40.960 --> 04:48.340 Well at this point we can take over that is replace the mesh data of this particular mesh object with 04:48.400 --> 04:50.020 some new mesh data. 04:50.050 --> 04:51.960 And we're going to do a grid to do that. 04:51.960 --> 04:53.790 I know it's going to be a chessboard of course. 04:53.930 --> 04:56.330 Now I know some of you will be screaming. 04:56.350 --> 04:58.930 Mike why don't you just add a grid from the beginning. 04:58.930 --> 05:04.390 Well you can do that but of course we are developing skills here that we can use in multiple situations 05:04.660 --> 05:10.840 and there will be the time where you want to enter a mesh object and add further mesh data to it or 05:10.840 --> 05:16.480 even change that mesh data in Founder the name it straightaway because I know what I'm going to do this 05:16.480 --> 05:20.380 is going to be my chess board says add that in now. 05:20.830 --> 05:22.510 And the mesh data itself. 05:22.540 --> 05:28.480 And I can name it here as well as up here is going to be the chess board. 05:29.200 --> 05:30.800 I know that straight away. 05:31.000 --> 05:36.400 Now while some in edit mode I'm going to hit the A key once will d select and then once again will select 05:36.460 --> 05:41.260 everything and to hit the x key and delete everything that's in there. 05:41.260 --> 05:45.120 Now that I've done that I can go ahead and add a grid. 05:45.190 --> 05:49.000 If we go up to the top here we see grid and we get a grid appearing. 05:49.790 --> 05:55.430 Now I can't see what's going on at the moment of zoom in and let's just have a look at the options so 05:55.430 --> 05:59.980 we've got a grid and we're not going to touch anything else at the moment because we need to look in 05:59.980 --> 06:01.270 the operator panel. 06:01.280 --> 06:05.020 We've got x subdivision's and Y subdivisions. 06:05.090 --> 06:11.620 Well in general you'll find that there is going to be one less than whatever these subdivisions are 06:11.630 --> 06:13.690 when we come to counting these. 06:13.700 --> 06:18.530 So we go through year 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. 06:18.530 --> 06:21.090 So there are nine squares on the y axis. 06:21.080 --> 06:26.760 Yet it says 10 if we go down to nine we get eight and so forth and so forth. 06:27.020 --> 06:27.480 Okay. 06:27.530 --> 06:30.540 So now we've got essentially what would be the chessboard. 06:30.560 --> 06:35.960 I hear you ask why do we need to do anything else because we can go through in just colour in the multiple 06:35.960 --> 06:36.620 squares. 06:36.620 --> 06:40.980 Well that would be specific to this particular project. 06:41.000 --> 06:47.830 However I'm going to envisage there being many many more squares the colorin than just the all. 06:47.840 --> 06:52.780 How many were the big 64 four thirty two it wouldn't take too long to colour in 32 squares. 06:52.880 --> 06:55.330 Black so that we have our black and white squares. 06:55.340 --> 06:56.400 I don't want to do that. 06:56.420 --> 07:01.160 I want to use a combination of a ray modifiers and what we've got in front of us. 07:01.310 --> 07:05.930 So that's this is mimicking a much more complex project. 07:05.930 --> 07:09.980 So first of all let's get this divided up as we want. 07:09.980 --> 07:15.860 So I'm going to go right down to two subdivision's which is the lowest you can go. 07:16.220 --> 07:22.730 And also thinking about how we've decided to scale our entire project I'm going to set the radius here 07:22.730 --> 07:23.950 as six. 07:24.050 --> 07:26.610 And that should zoom all the way out. 07:26.750 --> 07:28.370 Now let's have a look. 07:28.370 --> 07:34.160 We should be able to select four individual faces if we've got some subdivisions note that needs to 07:34.160 --> 07:36.500 be up to the re. 07:36.500 --> 07:36.980 There we go. 07:36.980 --> 07:45.100 So we've now got our four faces that we can repeat again and again and again using an array modifier. 07:45.200 --> 07:49.760 So there we go the basic grid is all made up now in edit mode. 07:49.760 --> 07:54.070 I can go to face select and select the individual faces there. 07:54.350 --> 07:59.650 And this is the basis that we can now build up a chequered board of any size. 07:59.690 --> 08:03.310 The fact that we're going for a chessboard of course is neither here nor there. 08:03.440 --> 08:06.930 And of course this leads us up to a nice challenge. 08:08.390 --> 08:10.400 I'd like you to finish the board. 08:10.610 --> 08:19.080 So first of all create a white material and a black material and apply those materials to the board 08:19.730 --> 08:27.590 then go ahead to use to array modifiers you can do them together or individually to create the rest 08:27.680 --> 08:28.700 of the board. 08:28.700 --> 08:31.010 Now apply those modifiers as you'd go. 08:31.010 --> 08:32.990 Or a D you can apply them all at the end. 08:32.990 --> 08:34.620 That's up to you. 08:34.640 --> 08:37.670 Finally don't worry about the board not being centred. 08:37.670 --> 08:41.280 We're going to be dealing with that in the next lecture. 08:41.630 --> 08:43.910 Bulls video now and give that a go. 08:45.660 --> 08:46.480 Okay guys. 08:46.500 --> 08:47.510 Welcome back. 08:47.520 --> 08:49.580 Let's hop over into blender. 08:50.410 --> 08:52.930 So we have our two by two grid here. 08:52.930 --> 08:56.520 Let's go ahead and create our two materials. 08:56.530 --> 09:04.590 First of all so I'm going to go over to this propertys panel over here and go to the middle cereal type. 09:04.840 --> 09:10.570 So I'm going to create our first mateer In fact there's already one hears I'm going to call this white 09:10.570 --> 09:11.430 square. 09:14.140 --> 09:14.650 Excellent. 09:14.650 --> 09:21.220 And just make sure down here it is set to bright white as white as it can bossily be now going to go 09:21.220 --> 09:28.220 to face select mode and select these two other faces here and create another material. 09:28.250 --> 09:32.390 And you've guessed it we're going to call it black square. 09:33.810 --> 09:40.770 Now that we've got those two made and I've also got to change the albino sign the material and then 09:40.800 --> 09:47.150 change the diffuse colour here and get a ramp all the way down to complete black. 09:47.770 --> 09:48.660 Excellent. 09:48.700 --> 09:54.160 So those are materials made and in fact that's are objects or someone to hop back into object mode because 09:54.160 --> 09:56.200 we're going to apply a modifier. 09:56.470 --> 10:02.650 So we've got our starting grid going so we're going to have to create one modifier first of all one 10:02.650 --> 10:05.800 that's going to be a repeat four times. 10:05.800 --> 10:11.290 So we're going to create an array modifier and we can have them next to each other so a relative offset 10:11.650 --> 10:12.600 and force. 10:12.610 --> 10:14.180 There we go one two three four. 10:14.190 --> 10:15.220 That's great. 10:15.430 --> 10:21.130 And I'm going to copy the modify and of course it's going to apply four of those as well. 10:21.130 --> 10:25.330 We don't want that in this case we want a relative offset. 10:25.480 --> 10:26.500 The other direction. 10:26.500 --> 10:30.650 So in Y by one and we can keep it to four as well. 10:30.670 --> 10:34.450 There we go at Saag grid up really quickly. 10:34.450 --> 10:40.030 Now the great thing about using this array modifier and we can see there are two here array one and 10:40.030 --> 10:48.490 array two or array and array not point not one and because it's an array when we go back to our original 10:48.550 --> 10:53.800 mesh and change anything it will propagate or cross our entire board so we wouldn't have to modify all 10:53.800 --> 10:55.330 the squares individually. 10:55.330 --> 10:56.830 Very very powerful. 10:57.250 --> 10:57.540 Right. 10:57.540 --> 11:03.830 So the final thing to do here is just apply are array modifiers So I'm going to apply that one. 11:03.940 --> 11:06.170 And finally apply this one. 11:06.300 --> 11:12.830 So now we've changed our mesh about that's great so we've made our chess board. 11:12.940 --> 11:14.620 How did you guys get on. 11:14.620 --> 11:18.180 Please share in the discussions and I'll see you in the next lecture.