WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.000 Welcome to Appending or Duplicating! 2 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:08.000 So in this video we're going to learn when you would duplicate 3 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:12.000 an asset model and choose when appending would 4 00:00:12.000 --> 00:00:16.000 be better. So Duplicating vs Appending! 5 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:20.000 So when you append another .blend file into a 6 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:24.000 brand new .blend file or another one that you're working on, appending picks 7 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:28.000 out key parts of a .blend file, so you can pick the object, 8 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:32.000 materials, the textures, any other of the scene 9 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:36.000 information but you bring them in one by one, so other scene data 10 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:40.000 would have to be appended separately. Now, with 11 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:44.000 duplicating, as the word suggests, would be exactly 12 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:48.000 the same as the original file, with everything 13 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:52.000 intact. It's essentially the same starting 14 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:56.000 file both times. So there are times when you would duplicate, 15 00:00:56.000 --> 00:01:00.000 and there are times when you would append, depending on your circumstances, 16 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:04.000 certainly after you are dealing with only a very basic 17 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:08.000 level, at the moment. If you're dealing with more than 18 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:12.000 two separate objects, separate .blend files, and you're 19 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:16.000 moving them all into one scene, then you're certainly going to need to 20 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:20.000 append, at that point.; you can't just keep duplicating because that's it, you've got the original scene. 21 00:01:20.833 --> 00:01:24.833 So I'd like you to create the rest of the pawn! So 22 00:01:24.833 --> 00:01:28.833 duplicate the base piece .blend file. So we're not going to 23 00:01:28.833 --> 00:01:32.833 append it, and the reason why we're going to duplicate is so we preserve 24 00:01:32.833 --> 00:01:36.833 that background image that we've put in place, so that later on, 25 00:01:36.833 --> 00:01:40.833 in a few moments, we can create the rest of the pawn against that material. 26 00:01:40.833 --> 00:01:44.833 So make sure you're working on the new .blend file that you've created, so you 27 00:01:44.833 --> 00:01:48.833 want to name it, straight away, and recommend a sphere for 28 00:01:48.833 --> 00:01:52.833 the top of the pawn, rather than doing it any other way. Finally, complete 29 00:01:52.833 --> 00:01:56.833 that pawn and share it with us in the discussions! Pause the video 30 00:01:56.833 --> 00:02:00.100 now, and give that a go! 31 00:02:00.100 --> 00:02:02.866 OK guys, welcome back! Let's hop straight on over 32 00:02:02.866 --> 00:02:04.500 into Blender! 33 00:02:04.500 --> 00:02:08.500 So here we are in Blender, and I am going 34 00:02:08.500 --> 00:02:12.500 to go and open up the Chess Piece Base that we've been working on. 35 00:02:12.500 --> 00:02:16.500 There we go! Brilliant! So I'm going to duplicate 36 00:02:16.500 --> 00:02:20.500 this file, rather than append it, and the main reason 37 00:02:20.500 --> 00:02:24.500 for that, more than anything else, is our reference 38 00:02:24.500 --> 00:02:28.500 material is already placed in this scene. So if we move 39 00:02:28.500 --> 00:02:32.500 around to the Front and pop it into 40 00:02:32.500 --> 00:02:34.800 Orthographic projection. 41 00:02:36.500 --> 00:02:39.466 There we go! [Laughs] And turn up the Opacity of our image, 42 00:02:39.466 --> 00:02:43.466 I almost lost it there, then, we can see our pawn is 43 00:02:43.466 --> 00:02:47.466 ready there for us. Now, if we were to append it into a new piece, 44 00:02:47.466 --> 00:02:51.466 we'd also have to append this background image and adjust it again 45 00:02:51.466 --> 00:02:55.466 to fit our current base, and we certainly don't want to do that, 46 00:02:55.466 --> 00:02:59.466 at the moment, since it's already there. So I'm going to go to File and 47 00:02:59.466 --> 00:03:03.466 Save As, and I'm just going to call this Chess 48 00:03:03.466 --> 00:03:07.466 and then change it to Pawn. There we go! 49 00:03:07.466 --> 00:03:11.466 So Save As Blender File, and I'm just going to check at the top, Chess Pawn. 50 00:03:11.466 --> 00:03:15.466 Brilliant! So we're working on a brand new file now, so the 51 00:03:15.466 --> 00:03:19.466 first thing I'm going to do is grab the very top of this 52 00:03:19.466 --> 00:03:23.466 and simply extrude it up. So hopping into Edit 53 00:03:23.466 --> 00:03:27.466 Mode, I'm going to grab that surface face at the 54 00:03:27.466 --> 00:03:31.466 top there, pop straight back around here, and raise it 55 00:03:31.466 --> 00:03:35.466 all the way up to there. Brilliant! I'm just going to add 56 00:03:35.466 --> 00:03:39.466 some loop cuts in, I'm not quite sure how many I want. There's a nice curve 57 00:03:39.466 --> 00:03:43.466 there, I'm going to need a few towards the top, that'll do for the 58 00:03:43.466 --> 00:03:47.466 moment, I can work on the rest. So that will slope down to about there. Then, 59 00:03:47.466 --> 00:03:51.466 it comes in and there's a lot of detail here, so I'm going to select a loop 60 00:03:51.466 --> 00:03:55.466 edge there and bring this up. And I'm going to bring this other one up 61 00:03:55.466 --> 00:03:59.466 really close, as well, just so I can add 62 00:03:59.466 --> 00:04:03.466 more detail there. We may need to adjust things as we go, anyway. 63 00:04:03.466 --> 00:04:07.466 And finally, I'm just going to lift this one, select that loop 64 00:04:07.466 --> 00:04:11.466 there, edge loop there, move it up to roughly the middle 65 00:04:11.466 --> 00:04:15.466 of this and just scale it into roughly the right 66 00:04:15.466 --> 00:04:19.466 place. I'm going to zoom into our model and pan 67 00:04:19.466 --> 00:04:23.466 up. I'm going to move this one and this one, at the same time, 68 00:04:23.466 --> 00:04:27.466 inwards, so remember to hold down Shift when you're selecting 69 00:04:27.466 --> 00:04:31.466 multiples of anything. I'm just going to scale them both 70 00:04:31.466 --> 00:04:35.466 in to roughly the right place. I'm going to grab 71 00:04:35.466 --> 00:04:39.466 this edge loop here, move it down slightly. I'm just trying to 72 00:04:39.466 --> 00:04:43.466 match up the photo the best I can and move that bit out, 73 00:04:43.466 --> 00:04:47.466 and that's absolutely fine! I just need to scale this 74 00:04:47.466 --> 00:04:51.466 top one in a little. In fact, I want a little 75 00:04:51.466 --> 00:04:55.466 resting place for where the sphere will meet, so I'm not going to 76 00:04:55.466 --> 00:04:59.466 scale it into an absolute point, but I'm going to scale it in quite a bit, 77 00:04:59.466 --> 00:05:03.466 probably to there. Now, this is obviously quite jagged, 78 00:05:03.466 --> 00:05:07.466 so there's a couple of options we can do in there. I'm going to add 79 00:05:07.466 --> 00:05:11.466 a bevel in here, just to smooth it out a little bit. 80 00:05:11.466 --> 00:05:15.466 Now, it's just going to be about that much of a bevel, and there we 81 00:05:15.466 --> 00:05:19.466 go! So that produces a nice smooth curve around there! Now, this one 82 00:05:19.466 --> 00:05:23.466 is very pointy, and we may have to play with it quite a bit 83 00:05:23.466 --> 00:05:27.466 to get it how we want it. I certainly 84 00:05:27.466 --> 00:05:31.466 want one line through the middle, whatever happens, 85 00:05:31.466 --> 00:05:35.466 and I can't really go any further than that, so I think I'm going to have to 86 00:05:35.466 --> 00:05:39.466 add in some extra geometry, before we do this. So let's add in 87 00:05:39.466 --> 00:05:43.466 another loop cut up here 88 00:05:43.466 --> 00:05:47.466 and scale that out slightly 89 00:05:47.466 --> 00:05:51.466 and add another loop cut underneath and scale that 90 00:05:51.466 --> 00:05:55.466 out, as well, so then, it's not quite so 91 00:05:55.466 --> 00:05:59.466 blocky. I'm just going to lift this up for no 92 00:05:59.466 --> 00:06:03.466 other reasons than ease of use. So I'm going to pop that pretty much 93 00:06:03.466 --> 00:06:07.466 in the middle, and then, I'm going to select all of these 94 00:06:07.466 --> 00:06:11.466 edge loops, there and there, and apply 95 00:06:11.466 --> 00:06:15.466 a bevel to that, as well. Not much but 96 00:06:15.466 --> 00:06:19.466 just enough to smooth that out. And of course, what I haven't 97 00:06:19.466 --> 00:06:23.466 been doing is hopping quickly on over into Object Mode. I'm just going to 98 00:06:23.466 --> 00:06:27.466 turn... I don't need to turn that off, just to see how that's looking! 99 00:06:27.466 --> 00:06:31.466 And I'm actually quite hoppy, happy, with how that's 100 00:06:31.466 --> 00:06:35.466 looking, at the moment! So we just need to concentrate on the sphere that goes on top. 101 00:06:35.633 --> 00:06:38.433 So let's move quickly around into Front 102 00:06:38.433 --> 00:06:42.433 View again, and we're going to create a sphere. Now, I'm going to create it as a separate 103 00:06:42.433 --> 00:06:46.433 object. Now, that's important because that will allow us to mate 104 00:06:46.433 --> 00:06:50.433 these two surfaces together, if they're all one mesh, that can be quite 105 00:06:50.433 --> 00:06:54.433 difficult. So I'm going to go Shift A, 106 00:06:54.433 --> 00:06:58.433 Add a Mesh, and Add a UV Sphere. I'm going to move 107 00:06:58.433 --> 00:07:02.433 that up and place it roughly on there, 108 00:07:02.433 --> 00:07:06.433 and I'm going to have to scale that down. I'm literally using the image as 109 00:07:06.433 --> 00:07:10.433 pure reference material here, to get the sizes as close 110 00:07:10.433 --> 00:07:14.433 as I care to make them. Now, there's obviously a difference here, so what we're 111 00:07:14.433 --> 00:07:18.433 going to do, at this point, is go and I'm going to 112 00:07:18.433 --> 00:07:22.433 hide the Image, by just rotating away slightly. And this might be 113 00:07:22.433 --> 00:07:26.433 a little fiddly but I'm going to turn on the Snap and 114 00:07:26.433 --> 00:07:30.433 Face, and I'm simply going to move our 115 00:07:30.433 --> 00:07:34.433 sphere down on top of this face. So I'm going to hit the 116 00:07:34.433 --> 00:07:38.433 G Key and press Z to lock it on the Z axis 117 00:07:38.433 --> 00:07:42.433 and literally just move it down, level with that face, and you can see it snapping 118 00:07:42.433 --> 00:07:46.433 straight in and flipping around. I can see that's touching perfectly! 119 00:07:46.433 --> 00:07:50.433 So one final thing that I do want to do, to make this thing just 120 00:07:50.433 --> 00:07:54.433 a little neater is, I'm going to now turn off 121 00:07:54.433 --> 00:07:58.433 our reference material. In fact, I could 122 00:07:58.433 --> 00:08:02.433 delete it... Nooo, I'll probably just turn it off! So we've got 123 00:08:02.433 --> 00:08:06.433 this point here, nothing in real life would ever exist like that, it can't 124 00:08:06.433 --> 00:08:10.433 possibly just come to an infinitely small point. So I'm 125 00:08:10.433 --> 00:08:14.433 going to hop into Edit Mode on our sphere, grab this 126 00:08:14.433 --> 00:08:17.166 edge loop that runs around the bottom of our 127 00:08:17.166 --> 00:08:19.900 sphere, and literally lower that 128 00:08:19.900 --> 00:08:22.466 down, so it snaps onto the face, as well. So we're still on the Snapping Tool 129 00:08:23.333 --> 00:08:27.333 here, which is great! We don't need to turn it off, unless you're going to press G, because we're moving 130 00:08:27.333 --> 00:08:31.333 that set, and I'm going to press Z, because I only want it to move 131 00:08:31.333 --> 00:08:35.333 up and down. I'm simply going to lower that onto this face, and there 132 00:08:35.333 --> 00:08:39.333 we go, it snaps straight away! So then, when we view it from the side, we can see 133 00:08:39.333 --> 00:08:43.333 there's a good contact point. Now, I'm going to 134 00:08:43.333 --> 00:08:47.333 go straight back to this bit here, and I'm just going to move 135 00:08:47.333 --> 00:08:51.333 this top bit in. So I'm going to go into Edit Mode, because I do want it to match, 136 00:08:51.333 --> 00:08:55.333 and I'm going to select this top edge loop, 137 00:08:55.333 --> 00:08:59.333 in edge select. And I'm not going to do it to Face, I'm going to 138 00:08:59.333 --> 00:09:03.333 try and do it to Vertex and see if we can match one of these ones coming in. So I'm just 139 00:09:03.333 --> 00:09:07.333 going to scale it in, see if we can snap that edge, so it's a nice, smooth, 140 00:09:07.333 --> 00:09:11.333 curve going in. And I'm just going to add 141 00:09:11.333 --> 00:09:15.333 another edge loop here and scale it out, so it's just not quite 142 00:09:15.333 --> 00:09:19.333 as slanted going in. Alright, I 143 00:09:19.333 --> 00:09:23.333 like that lots, there's a slight difference here. We are still dealing with 144 00:09:23.333 --> 00:09:27.333 two models, so the first thing I am going to do is combine 145 00:09:27.333 --> 00:09:31.333 these together. So I'm going to select, hop into Object Mode, 146 00:09:31.333 --> 00:09:35.333 and then, I'm going to make sure I've got both selected, 147 00:09:35.333 --> 00:09:39.333 and I'm going to go down to Object and Join 148 00:09:39.333 --> 00:09:43.333 or Control and J. I'd forgotten what the shortcut was! Good 149 00:09:43.333 --> 00:09:47.333 job, I knew where the menu option was. So we're dealing with objects and we're 150 00:09:47.333 --> 00:09:51.333 going to join them together and that makes them one mesh. And of course, they're called 151 00:09:51.333 --> 00:09:55.333 Sphere, which is no good anymore, so I'm simply going to call it 152 00:09:55.333 --> 00:09:59.333 Pawn because I'm happy with that. And as we 153 00:09:59.333 --> 00:10:03.333 can see here, this one hasn't got the smooth shading applied to it yet, 154 00:10:03.333 --> 00:10:07.333 so over, making sure you're in Object Mode, over in the Tool 155 00:10:07.333 --> 00:10:11.333 Shelf I'm simply going to click on smooth shading, so it's just a bit easier on the 156 00:10:11.333 --> 00:10:15.333 eye, as I go around. Excellent! So we've got our basic pawn 157 00:10:15.333 --> 00:10:19.333 piece complete. Excellent! How did you guys do? Please 158 00:10:19.333 --> 00:10:23.333 share your results in the discussions! Brilliant! Well done for getting this far, 159 00:10:23.333 --> 00:10:27.166 and I shall see you in the next lecture!