WEBVTT 00:00.330 --> 00:07.650 Welcome to using existing geometry to create new so in this video we're going to use an existing face 00:08.010 --> 00:10.100 to create a new face. 00:10.110 --> 00:14.520 We're going to separate that immediately creating a new object. 00:14.580 --> 00:20.750 And this basically allows us to match up parts of our model even when they're not exact sizes. 00:20.750 --> 00:26.130 So if you had a face that was to blend the units across a quarter you could just create another a start 00:26.130 --> 00:26.820 with a plane. 00:26.820 --> 00:32.480 Let's say you have a square top of a cube you could have a square and just make it the exact size that's 00:32.490 --> 00:33.150 absolutely fine. 00:33.150 --> 00:37.860 In fact you could scale it to match the right size but sometimes you're not going to have these nice 00:37.920 --> 00:40.790 shapes to work with or exact sizes. 00:40.800 --> 00:48.390 So in this case we're going to use an existing face separate immediately and match and that will automatically 00:48.390 --> 00:49.610 match up anyway. 00:49.950 --> 00:52.640 So let's hop straight on over in a blender. 00:55.250 --> 01:00.800 So we have the base we've been working on here and this face in the middle is the one we're going to 01:00.920 --> 01:01.920 work on. 01:02.090 --> 01:06.700 But instead of playing around with this let's learn the techniques we need to do in a new blender fast 01:06.720 --> 01:12.740 from going to go and open up a new file now and will simply work on the default cube. 01:12.950 --> 01:18.260 So we're going to copy this face that's on top is relatively straightforward you've probably already 01:18.260 --> 01:19.330 got it in your mind's eye. 01:19.340 --> 01:26.030 What we're going to do first of all we're going to hop all over into edit mode then select face select 01:26.090 --> 01:27.910 and select this top face. 01:27.920 --> 01:30.960 Now there are loads of ways of duplicating that face. 01:31.010 --> 01:33.910 And all I'm going to do in this case I don't need a link to duplicate. 01:33.920 --> 01:35.100 I just need duplicate. 01:35.180 --> 01:40.430 And if you remember AB That is shift endi will duplicate the face. 01:40.580 --> 01:40.970 Brilliant. 01:40.970 --> 01:41.850 That's now done. 01:41.850 --> 01:47.420 But immediately straightaway after going shift and the end duplicating I'm just going to press enter 01:47.660 --> 01:50.710 to set it where it is so I've not moved it left and right. 01:50.750 --> 01:52.010 If you do need to duplicate. 01:52.010 --> 02:00.130 Otherwise it is under the mesh menu and we've got Where is it on here and duplicate just there. 02:00.200 --> 02:02.310 Put the mesh and move out. 02:02.360 --> 02:06.540 If we don't get any linked duplicates whilst we're in edit mode. 02:06.790 --> 02:12.980 Now once that's there we need to separate it so we still got that face selected so we can hit P and 02:12.980 --> 02:14.840 we can separate by selection. 02:15.920 --> 02:21.750 And now if we just have a look I'm going to turn off the cube itself over here in the outlines. 02:21.770 --> 02:28.410 Hop on over into object men are going to turn it off and so that is the face that we've just copied. 02:29.290 --> 02:35.050 And the cube itself is still there and we should see it with the cube selected. 02:35.050 --> 02:40.170 We can see that it has its Let's go through here six faces. 02:40.370 --> 02:42.230 Yes that's absolutely fine. 02:42.400 --> 02:46.590 We've not duplicated anything within the model itself and we can look up there. 02:46.620 --> 02:50.040 There are eight vertices around there and it's still got eight. 02:50.050 --> 02:51.060 We hop over here. 02:51.070 --> 02:52.860 We should have four vertices. 02:52.870 --> 02:55.130 If we hop into edit mode. 02:57.760 --> 03:02.940 Because I've hidden it I've hidden it guys and I've not noticed that I've hidden Okay so now that that's 03:02.940 --> 03:03.380 there. 03:03.480 --> 03:07.870 We hop over to edit mode in with just that essentially a plane on top. 03:07.890 --> 03:12.800 We've got an exact duplicate and from that of course we can extrude and do things from. 03:12.870 --> 03:15.810 And that's now a completely separate model. 03:16.050 --> 03:16.870 Okay brilliant. 03:16.950 --> 03:23.650 Let's go apply that knowledge over in our lamp base and we're going to do that with a challenge. 03:23.790 --> 03:30.030 Okay so I'd like you to create a stem for the lamp using the face at the bottom of the hole the one 03:30.030 --> 03:34.530 that showed you a few minutes ago and we're going to generate the need geometry and build the stem up 03:34.530 --> 03:35.400 from there. 03:35.400 --> 03:42.090 I do suggest scaling the stem in ever so slightly to create a slight gap around the top of the hole. 03:42.240 --> 03:45.040 So pause a video now and give that a go. 03:46.860 --> 03:47.770 Welcome back. 03:47.940 --> 03:50.660 Let's go complete this challenge over in blender. 03:51.700 --> 03:53.610 So this is where we left off. 03:53.620 --> 03:58.590 And let's hop straight on over and open up our animated lamp. 03:58.660 --> 04:05.800 And here we go we've got the base in front of us and it's these faces here that we want to duplicates 04:05.800 --> 04:07.760 of this area in the middle. 04:07.810 --> 04:10.830 So I'm going to use the circle select tool to do that. 04:10.840 --> 04:12.580 I'm going to clear the selection first. 04:12.580 --> 04:14.160 So there we go. 04:14.500 --> 04:19.540 Press for serpell Select and I can just draw rant and it looks like I don't have face select selected 04:19.540 --> 04:26.100 at the moment so again let's clear that selection face select should have had a bit of a clue with the 04:26.650 --> 04:27.450 dots there. 04:27.460 --> 04:30.810 But see draw around there. 04:30.970 --> 04:37.660 Brilliant So that's all of those faces selected shifta will provide us with a duplicate. 04:38.120 --> 04:44.220 Once we've exited with the right mouse button from CIRCLE select shift the that's produced a duplicate 04:44.650 --> 04:54.700 press enter to set it in place P to separate it and I'm immediately going to rename it over here into 04:54.760 --> 04:57.670 STEM will do for the moment. 04:57.670 --> 04:59.850 Hop on over into edit mode. 05:00.760 --> 05:06.470 Select all of those faces and we can extrude them upwards on the z axis. 05:06.470 --> 05:07.460 Were there a go. 05:07.460 --> 05:09.350 I'm not sure how tall that is at the moment. 05:09.400 --> 05:10.200 In a bit far. 05:10.330 --> 05:11.490 That's absolutely fine. 05:11.490 --> 05:16.030 So the final thing we can do here is literally just scale in ever so slightly. 05:16.030 --> 05:17.840 I'm not going to do it initially. 05:17.920 --> 05:20.750 I'm going to literally draw our border. 05:22.600 --> 05:29.190 Let's hop on over into object Marish draw a border around here and render it so we can see what's going 05:29.280 --> 05:29.760 on. 05:29.760 --> 05:33.800 In fact we need lights on we've got our lights turned off at the moment. 05:34.050 --> 05:42.150 So where is it's in our let's turn our back drop on the lamp on somewhere else. 05:42.200 --> 05:43.520 Minimize this here. 05:43.770 --> 05:46.940 I really ought to put all of my lighting in one area so can find it. 05:47.130 --> 05:51.570 So I've turned the plane on and there seems to be a bit of triangulation going on here. 05:51.570 --> 05:53.320 We can sort that out later on. 05:53.730 --> 05:58.170 Now at the moment if we go to this base area here. 05:58.170 --> 06:02.830 Zoom out a little and there we can see that it's pretty much flush. 06:03.000 --> 06:05.790 Now that's not going to happen in reality. 06:05.790 --> 06:10.530 So with the stem selected I'm just going to grab this top and literally just scale it in. 06:10.530 --> 06:12.700 Now going to be a bit silly here. 06:12.830 --> 06:19.110 So show you what I want to do in fact we may bevel the edge on the edge to make it a little neater and 06:19.260 --> 06:27.900 we want a gap around there but we only want a small gap so let's scale it in by maybe points 9 7. 06:27.970 --> 06:28.570 Let's see. 06:28.590 --> 06:33.580 Yep that's left a nice gap down there and whilst we're talking about just bevelling that edge ramps 06:33.580 --> 06:35.080 it's a little bit smoother. 06:35.250 --> 06:38.430 Let's hop over to our lamp base. 06:39.140 --> 06:40.370 Pop into edit mode. 06:40.370 --> 06:43.240 I'm just going to stop the rendering so I can see what's going on. 06:43.300 --> 06:46.500 Unconfessed selects that edgerley round there. 06:46.510 --> 06:51.030 I'm going to bevell it of course that would be silly. 06:51.110 --> 06:52.880 Owning needs to be a little. 06:53.820 --> 07:00.000 Perhaps something like VAT's hop straight over into rended mode see how that looks much better. 07:00.000 --> 07:00.560 Brilliant. 07:00.570 --> 07:01.680 How did you guys get on. 07:01.680 --> 07:05.760 I'd love to see what you did when you got your stem put in. 07:05.760 --> 07:07.410 Did you have any challenges. 07:07.410 --> 07:11.020 Share in the discussions and I will see you in the next lecture.