WEBVTT 00:00.670 --> 00:03.060 Welcome to virtex groups. 00:03.310 --> 00:11.290 In this video you will learn what a virtex group is assign vertices to a virtex group and see that because 00:11.290 --> 00:13.430 we created our model in parts. 00:13.450 --> 00:17.080 It is really easy to assign groupings. 00:17.080 --> 00:19.520 So let's hop straight on over into blender. 00:20.360 --> 00:23.560 Okay so on to virtex groups. 00:23.630 --> 00:28.530 Well virtex groups are a great way of grouping vertices together. 00:28.790 --> 00:36.070 And if we select let's say this lampshade at the top here and go to the object data properties. 00:36.080 --> 00:37.160 Now this is a new one for you. 00:37.160 --> 00:43.370 It's upside down triangle here with three vertices and some edges there and we can see that there are 00:43.370 --> 00:44.420 virtex groups. 00:44.420 --> 00:52.280 And in this case we can just create one here and it's not very useful called group let's call it shade 00:52.340 --> 00:55.420 and let's work on the shade at the very top. 00:56.030 --> 01:03.290 Now in order to assign vertices to this vertex group we need to be in edit mode so let's hop over to 01:03.290 --> 01:04.500 edit mode now. 01:04.760 --> 01:10.160 Let's press a twice or just once in this case because nothing else was selected. 01:10.220 --> 01:15.100 Everything is selected and we just click here assign with a weight of 1. 01:15.110 --> 01:17.230 Now that weight is important. 01:17.240 --> 01:23.850 It means that these were to seise a wholly and solely part of the shade vertex group. 01:26.030 --> 01:26.600 Excellent. 01:26.600 --> 01:32.510 Now we can d select now and select everything as part of that and just for playing devil's advocate. 01:32.510 --> 01:39.040 If I was to select a face in their press plus and just leave it as group for the moment and assign. 01:39.440 --> 01:49.610 Now I can select my entire lampshade there or indeed I can go down to group and select those four vertices 01:49.610 --> 01:51.660 that I've highlighted just here. 01:51.660 --> 01:54.140 Powerful yes my example. 01:54.210 --> 01:58.890 No let's get rid of that one that we've created there. 01:58.910 --> 02:04.670 However there are a couple of other things that are part of this lampshade when it moves this ball joint 02:04.670 --> 02:05.930 at the top is one. 02:06.110 --> 02:11.330 And of course we've got the little lad lightsource in the middle of it there. 02:11.630 --> 02:18.590 So let's focus on let's hop out of here select our lampshade joints. 02:19.280 --> 02:22.830 And we notice that the vertical group has disappeared. 02:22.860 --> 02:23.550 Hmm. 02:23.630 --> 02:29.920 So it would be very useful in this case to have all of these linked as one object. 02:29.930 --> 02:32.980 So one thing I have noticed when doing this. 02:32.990 --> 02:39.950 If I were to select the lampshade joint then the lampshade profile then the light bulb inside and join 02:39.950 --> 02:47.150 them together with control and Jay it actually goes back to its default position that we started modelling 02:47.150 --> 02:48.560 in a while back. 02:48.620 --> 02:54.890 And that's because the rotation of one of these is not set appropriately and we'd need to rotate it 02:54.950 --> 02:56.820 around by 90 degrees. 02:56.990 --> 03:01.910 Now I'm not going to faff about doing that because there are a couple of ways that you can get around 03:01.910 --> 03:02.440 it. 03:02.540 --> 03:08.140 And usually the simplest one and let's try it now is just selecting them literally in a different order. 03:08.270 --> 03:13.100 So I've gone a light bulb lampshade profound apsey joints so I sort of go and top down have gone bottom 03:13.100 --> 03:13.520 up. 03:13.730 --> 03:19.760 And when we join them they're all one mesh object and I'm simply going to name that mesh object shade 03:19.790 --> 03:21.140 as well. 03:21.290 --> 03:28.850 So now that they're all there I'm going to go into edit mode select everything and let's bring the properties 03:28.850 --> 03:35.690 panel back up and assign them to shade because shade is the one that's highlighted finally to make sure 03:35.690 --> 03:39.380 that I don't make any mistakes and muck around with it. 03:39.390 --> 03:41.840 I'm going to put the padlock on. 03:43.020 --> 03:45.270 Okay guys it's Challenge time. 03:45.270 --> 03:52.680 I'd like you to assign virtex groups so assign virtex groups to the rest of our mesh objects join them 03:52.680 --> 03:55.030 together when necessary. 03:55.170 --> 03:57.320 Name them appropriately. 03:57.450 --> 04:03.220 I suggest keeping it to a one word just to keep things simple. 04:03.270 --> 04:09.050 In this instance keep the number of mesh objects the same as the number of bones. 04:09.180 --> 04:13.430 So consider joining meshel objects together where necessary. 04:13.800 --> 04:16.250 Pause the video now and give this a go. 04:18.810 --> 04:19.450 Okay guys. 04:19.470 --> 04:20.220 Welcome back. 04:20.220 --> 04:22.390 Let's hop straight into blender. 04:23.860 --> 04:29.640 Right so let's go ahead and sign the rest of our virtex groups. 04:29.710 --> 04:37.420 So we've got four bones and five objects no case so let's go ahead and just go down. 04:37.420 --> 04:42.290 So I'm going to hop into object mode select the upper arm select everything. 04:42.370 --> 04:45.910 In it I'm doing it as slightly different order. 04:45.970 --> 04:47.740 I'm going to name this one up. 04:49.160 --> 04:56.340 And I'm going to click a sign exer and then select the lower arm hop into edit mode select all of the 04:56.340 --> 05:00.980 mesh add a new vertex group and call it. 05:01.790 --> 05:03.100 Lower. 05:03.380 --> 05:07.250 Getting the hang of this I can down a locket as well. 05:07.320 --> 05:13.490 Oh did I sign says make sure sign and we can check that by the selecting and selecting So that looks 05:13.490 --> 05:14.010 good to me. 05:14.010 --> 05:16.360 I've got a lock that one hop into here. 05:16.360 --> 05:17.220 Lock that one. 05:17.330 --> 05:19.440 Okay so this bottom one here. 05:19.580 --> 05:21.680 The lamp base and the stem. 05:21.680 --> 05:28.220 Well I'm going to join the stem to the lamp base in that order so it inherits the name lamp base so 05:28.220 --> 05:32.670 I don't have to rename the mesh so it's joined together. 05:32.750 --> 05:37.290 Let's hop in to edit mode and select all the vertices. 05:37.280 --> 05:42.800 I'm just going to go here and remove doubles because I know at some point they're gonna meet and I think 05:42.800 --> 05:49.670 that's right at the very bottom so that's remove 32 vertices and then I'm going to add any vertex group 05:49.700 --> 05:55.820 and I'm going to call that group base and I'm going to assign all of these vertices that I've selected 05:55.880 --> 06:03.110 to that and are going to d select and select to make sure it's there perfect and hunger a lot for the 06:03.120 --> 06:03.970 group. 06:03.980 --> 06:04.550 Brilliant. 06:04.550 --> 06:06.470 How did you guys get on. 06:06.470 --> 06:13.880 We're almost ready now to re rig our model so not only will it look better in the hierarchy in a much 06:13.910 --> 06:15.740 simpler layout. 06:15.830 --> 06:20.550 We're also going to be able to export it to external packages. 06:20.780 --> 06:23.830 Take care and I will see you in the next lecture.