WEBVTT 00:00.580 --> 00:03.620 Welcome to creating geometry from a curve. 00:03.970 --> 00:09.370 In this video we're going to refresh our knowledge on this we first covered this back in the bowling 00:09.370 --> 00:12.730 pin when we created the bowling pin from a curve itself. 00:12.730 --> 00:17.390 So we'll be converting our curve object to a mesh object. 00:17.440 --> 00:23.080 Once we've done that we can then preformed mesh operations on it and that will become clearer as we 00:23.080 --> 00:24.220 go forward. 00:24.610 --> 00:29.970 We will choose whether to delete the original curved data if we want to. 00:29.980 --> 00:32.750 It's entirely up to you whether you do that or not. 00:33.010 --> 00:39.040 But in the challenge ahead we'll probably be keeping it just for reference if nothing else. 00:39.040 --> 00:41.310 It's good to have all the data ready there. 00:41.500 --> 00:44.080 So let's hop straight on over in Splender. 00:45.120 --> 00:45.600 Right so. 00:45.630 --> 00:46.920 Back over in blend. 00:46.920 --> 00:52.650 I've just reopened my file from working on it earlier and it appears my base has gone missing. 00:52.750 --> 00:57.660 But Fearne What's the first thing I'm just going to do is get rid of this red border which is a bit 00:57.660 --> 00:58.990 of a distraction at the moment. 00:59.000 --> 01:04.490 To get rid of that with control Oulton be and then just move around. 01:04.500 --> 01:10.350 It looks like we're looking at it from the camera view a moment ago and say well we've got another border 01:10.350 --> 01:16.470 now that does happen so I'll do Charlton B again to get rid of that so the camera has a separate border 01:17.070 --> 01:20.580 to your main view port itself. 01:20.640 --> 01:26.850 So now we're here we still can't see our model and the reason for that is over on the base curve object 01:27.150 --> 01:27.670 over here. 01:27.700 --> 01:31.010 The Bezier circle if we click on that it just comes back again. 01:31.020 --> 01:32.430 So it's definitely there. 01:32.640 --> 01:36.320 No panics few then one have to recreate that. 01:36.630 --> 01:39.910 So we just need to convert this now to a mesh object. 01:39.930 --> 01:45.750 And we've done that before with the pin when we converted it to a mesh object and just to remind you 01:45.750 --> 01:50.010 we need it because I keep mentioning the word object of course because it's an object operation so we're 01:50.010 --> 01:52.140 going to have to be in object mode. 01:52.140 --> 01:54.120 So I'm going to switch over now. 01:54.510 --> 01:59.930 Click on object mode and immediately I'm going to go to object. 01:59.940 --> 02:01.230 Towards the top. 02:01.350 --> 02:06.720 Convert to a mesh to a converting to a mesh from a curve. 02:06.720 --> 02:11.810 There are other things you can convert to as well but we just want this one here. 02:11.820 --> 02:14.270 You can also use the shortcut oltz and see. 02:14.450 --> 02:19.890 Now sometimes you may want to preserve your data. 02:20.160 --> 02:25.830 And if we go into the tool shelf before doing anything else and ask to keep the original It can cause 02:25.830 --> 02:29.020 some problems if we do keep original. 02:29.070 --> 02:36.470 It disappears and we end up with a mesh object here that's just a circle which isn't what we want. 02:36.810 --> 02:45.900 So if I now go to the undo history and just go back to toggle edit motor just before we did the conversion. 02:45.900 --> 02:50.680 So we see we've got curved objects again and I do the same thing again I'm sure you're going to use 02:50.680 --> 02:57.450 the shortcut key this time old and see and create a mesh from it we can see that there and this time 02:58.110 --> 03:00.790 we actually seem to get our. 03:01.480 --> 03:02.980 Mesh object. 03:03.100 --> 03:06.320 That's a little bit of a quirk with a blender. 03:06.550 --> 03:12.790 But if you don't do it in that order you end up losing your mesh object and just having a circle defined 03:12.880 --> 03:14.730 which isn't too great. 03:14.800 --> 03:18.830 So now that we've got that I've got a little challenge for you guys. 03:18.870 --> 03:20.410 It's a bit of organization. 03:21.810 --> 03:25.040 I would like you to convert the base into a mesh object. 03:25.080 --> 03:28.680 Have you been following along you would have already done this hopefully successfully. 03:28.680 --> 03:35.450 I am going to in the challenge just reset my model itself and go through it again with you as well. 03:35.550 --> 03:42.920 So convert the base into a mesh object named the new object appropriately and remember to keep the curved 03:42.920 --> 03:49.790 data and make it a child of the new geometry such just nested underneath there. 03:49.810 --> 03:52.320 Pause a video now and give that a go. 03:54.520 --> 03:55.300 Welcome back. 03:55.300 --> 03:57.700 Let's hop straight back into blender. 03:58.150 --> 04:04.250 So this is where we got to before and what I want to do is just run through the process once more. 04:04.280 --> 04:08.300 I'm just going to revert my far back to where it was before. 04:08.320 --> 04:12.370 I'm going to just hide these two red borders. 04:12.370 --> 04:14.200 Let's zoom into this area. 04:14.320 --> 04:18.000 I'm going to go to the Bezier circle. 04:18.010 --> 04:20.680 Excellent so we've got the objects selected. 04:20.680 --> 04:23.230 I'm going to hop into objects mode. 04:23.260 --> 04:29.090 I'm going to go all out and see to convert that to a mesh. 04:29.650 --> 04:34.150 Now of course we need to operate a panel open and I'm going to click Keep original. 04:34.180 --> 04:39.300 And of course that means everything disappears which is very very irritating. 04:39.310 --> 04:44.900 However if we literally go to our undo history and go back one. 04:45.670 --> 04:48.720 And do exactly the same thing again. 04:48.730 --> 04:54.720 We managed to keep both sun out and see convert to a mesh. 04:54.790 --> 04:58.850 We've now got both our base curves. 04:59.000 --> 05:00.140 The diff did. 05:01.090 --> 05:03.400 The defining curves themselves. 05:03.490 --> 05:07.120 And we've also got our base mesh in the outliner. 05:07.450 --> 05:13.600 So the final thing to do here is just name these things appropriately so I'm going to call this base 05:14.050 --> 05:14.870 curve. 05:17.720 --> 05:21.350 And I will call this one here. 05:21.920 --> 05:27.520 Base out line curve I think that's an appropriate name to call it. 05:27.530 --> 05:31.840 And finally I'm going to nest this under the mesh object itself. 05:31.970 --> 05:37.940 Just so it keeps it nice and tidy on our hierarchy here will probably do a bit more tidy later on. 05:37.960 --> 05:41.240 I'm just going to call this lamp base. 05:41.240 --> 05:45.480 I think lamp base is a very descriptive name for it. 05:45.500 --> 05:50.630 And we will hop now into edit mode on the lamp base itself. 05:52.070 --> 05:57.290 And make sure that we can select edges and faces which we can do. 05:57.350 --> 05:57.820 Brilliant. 05:57.830 --> 05:58.880 That's all done. 05:58.880 --> 06:05.230 Feel free to share your progress thus far in the discussions and I will see you in the next lecture.