WEBVTT 00:00.570 --> 00:04.690 Welcome to using our building blocks in this video. 00:04.690 --> 00:08.150 You set your commit message before working. 00:08.160 --> 00:12.900 And that's important because that allows us to focus on the work that we're doing. 00:12.900 --> 00:19.350 It also means that we won't slip out of what we want to do and end up doing lots of other things. 00:19.350 --> 00:25.410 It also means when we need to go back in time if we need to go back in time in the future that we've 00:25.410 --> 00:31.740 got a precise location we know what we did at that point in time we're going to start building your 00:31.740 --> 00:37.170 building and that's very important we've got these assets that we've made the wall the doorway the window 00:37.330 --> 00:42.300 etc. but we haven't used them in anything at the moment so it's not a good idea to produce a load of 00:42.300 --> 00:44.990 those into you seen their real effect. 00:45.000 --> 00:50.130 When you brought them into a model and start assembling them not very lean if we produced tons of stuff 00:50.160 --> 00:55.650 and haven't used it yet but we've only got a few items it's a good time now to bring them in and start 00:55.650 --> 01:01.200 noticing a few issues and working out a way around them things we need to correct things we need to 01:01.200 --> 01:02.240 modify. 01:02.520 --> 01:06.500 So let's go explore this now and hop straight on over in a blender. 01:07.330 --> 01:12.460 Okay so of course before we hop straight into blender we need to make sure we're focussed on what we're 01:12.460 --> 01:15.890 doing so let's go ahead and click on commit. 01:16.330 --> 01:21.280 Now there's going to be nothing to commit at the moment unless you've changed something in your working 01:21.280 --> 01:21.990 folder. 01:22.210 --> 01:25.720 However I haven't said there's nothing to commit that's absolutely fine. 01:25.720 --> 01:31.270 I'm going to go to my commit message down the bottom here and I'm going to paste in the title of the 01:31.480 --> 01:37.310 one I'm working which is using our building blocks and I'm going to put in testing as well. 01:37.480 --> 01:41.490 Just to make sure we know that we're testing the project here. 01:41.500 --> 01:44.770 Now I can't click commit or anything that's just ready to go in a bit. 01:44.790 --> 01:47.910 I'm going to minimize that and put it out of the way for the moment. 01:48.740 --> 01:53.900 I've gone ahead and opened up a brand new blender file and I'm going to remove the cube from the scene 01:53.900 --> 01:58.700 because it bears no relevance unless leave the camera and the basic lighting because we can use that 01:58.700 --> 01:59.640 for testing. 01:59.960 --> 02:04.550 So we're going to be spending all of these objects will go on to linking them in a bit. 02:04.580 --> 02:06.980 Because that's got some additional benefits to it. 02:07.100 --> 02:11.350 But just to get a feel about what we're doing is just gonna spend them in and we can see the short cut 02:11.360 --> 02:13.630 there is shift an EF 1. 02:13.670 --> 02:18.130 So we go ahead and press shift and EF 1 we can start importing now. 02:18.140 --> 02:20.490 I'm going to have to navigate to my assets PAC. 02:20.600 --> 02:22.600 I'm not going to bring in many at this point. 02:22.600 --> 02:24.680 I just want a feel of what's going on. 02:24.680 --> 02:29.810 So when I go to my meshes I'm going to bring in a square not the square detail just the plain old square 02:29.810 --> 02:36.270 so square object and the square mash and I would shift an EF 1 again. 02:36.560 --> 02:39.140 Again you can go through the menu system if you want. 02:39.170 --> 02:43.580 I'm going to bring in the doors because that's quite a useful one to work with. 02:43.610 --> 02:48.770 And finally I'm going to bring in the window as well and I've got two choices of windows so I balked 02:48.800 --> 02:50.240 that one out. 02:50.630 --> 02:56.410 I'm going to bring in the one detail because then I'm going to have to rotate it at some point. 02:56.420 --> 03:01.450 Now that we've got V's into our scene what we can start doing is moving them about now. 03:01.460 --> 03:06.900 One of the things to bear in mind is a quick glance at the outliner at the moment. 03:06.950 --> 03:13.820 We've only got three or mesh objects in there but when we start duplicating and moving and all that 03:13.820 --> 03:20.570 sort of stuff to produce are our building we'll see in a moment that that starts to get very messy and 03:20.570 --> 03:23.100 very complicated and difficult to navigate. 03:23.120 --> 03:25.240 So it's all so worthwhile. 03:25.250 --> 03:31.880 Before you start doing this not afterwards because it becomes a pain to do afterwards but before doing 03:31.880 --> 03:38.150 this we actually create ourselves in empty and it doesn't matter which one of these you choose I'm going 03:38.150 --> 03:45.920 to choose a plain axis and I'm going to cool it all under no room test for the moment and then everything 03:45.950 --> 03:48.410 can be linked to that empty. 03:48.410 --> 03:54.220 And when I reproduce or duplicate something I'm going to make sure it's added to the room test. 03:54.290 --> 03:58.790 So let's go ahead and start playing with these things straightaway now instead of just grabbing them 03:58.790 --> 04:03.740 and moving them about because we've made them out of whole blender units. 04:03.740 --> 04:07.500 It's very easy to quickly make something up. 04:07.580 --> 04:13.440 So I'm going to make sure that the snapping tool is turned on that we've got the snapping set. 04:13.490 --> 04:16.880 So the type increment which is the bottom one of that list. 04:17.030 --> 04:23.370 And now we can just literally move things in increments of whole blending units which is very powerful. 04:23.480 --> 04:25.610 Since we've got things set up like that. 04:25.760 --> 04:32.480 So I've got this basic thing here let's make a let's keep moving it I'm going to make an eight by four 04:32.480 --> 04:34.970 room I think there's eight by four or soon find out. 04:34.970 --> 04:40.760 So I've got a window on the end and a door and I'm going to duplicate by holding down shift than day. 04:41.060 --> 04:47.270 Not not necessarily linked duplicates because I may want to make these independent. 04:47.330 --> 04:52.130 So in this case it doesn't really matter and I'm going to place it there quickly and rotate it on was 04:52.130 --> 04:54.170 z axis by 90. 04:54.200 --> 04:59.570 Now I've got a particular direction where this is the outside and this is the inside. 04:59.600 --> 05:08.640 So this is going to have to be moved to over here brilliant So let's move that up and across to there. 05:08.660 --> 05:14.310 I'm going to duplicate that again and lock it to the y axis and place it where I need it. 05:14.480 --> 05:17.970 Finally I'm going to grab both of them and Jube placate again. 05:18.080 --> 05:25.100 Just check checketts duplicated rotate it on the z axis by 180 and then I can quickly shift it over 05:25.100 --> 05:28.160 here and a long to there. 05:28.190 --> 05:30.770 Now we can already see there's going to be a few issues. 05:30.770 --> 05:36.460 These corners don't mine up and there's a couple of choices as to what we can do here. 05:36.460 --> 05:41.740 Am I going to put the floor in first hand and make sure that it works. 05:41.810 --> 05:48.020 Now the floors a little high so I've got to make a note here that the floor needs to be dropped down 05:48.030 --> 05:55.010 so every time I import a particular floor piece it sits below the floor or everything else sits above. 05:55.070 --> 05:57.940 I think it's easier if we make the floor piece sits below. 05:58.150 --> 06:00.670 So I'm going to move them all well. 06:00.730 --> 06:03.080 I'll move it first so move in the z axis. 06:03.080 --> 06:07.990 By mine this amp that point to fry fix so that should put it at the base. 06:08.420 --> 06:11.150 And again you can use an array modifier for this. 06:11.150 --> 06:16.540 If you would like to but I'm very quickly just building this up haven't saved yet. 06:16.550 --> 06:17.900 But that's okay. 06:17.930 --> 06:20.320 Then thing I'd lose too much of my day. 06:20.340 --> 06:22.470 If a blender decided to crash. 06:22.580 --> 06:27.770 Now we can see there that it's gone underneath our our piece here. 06:27.770 --> 06:31.730 No that's not a particular problem because that's nice it lines up nice and flush. 06:31.850 --> 06:37.300 But you can see in certain other places let's just pull it back slightly This is a great example here 06:37.310 --> 06:38.920 so we got the door here. 06:38.960 --> 06:45.320 If we wanted to use this externally as well as internally we can see that these pieces don't quite line 06:45.320 --> 06:45.910 up. 06:46.070 --> 06:48.000 So there's a couple of things. 06:48.120 --> 06:48.640 Can do here. 06:48.640 --> 06:55.690 I can make sure that all of my wall polices also go down by point to five so that sorts out that and 06:55.690 --> 06:57.850 then they sit nice and flush. 06:57.850 --> 07:01.110 I can make sure all of my wall pieces extend by point to. 07:01.120 --> 07:01.840 But hang on a minute. 07:01.840 --> 07:03.130 Which piece do I want. 07:03.130 --> 07:04.820 It doesn't end up very modular. 07:04.960 --> 07:11.800 If I have to keep adding and moving and picking certain window sizes that are an end piece or a beginning 07:11.800 --> 07:17.360 piece what would be easier is if there was another piece that fills in these gaps. 07:17.590 --> 07:25.300 So a for by this is four across Isn't it so a 4 by point twenty five pillar could sit in there and then 07:25.300 --> 07:31.510 we can make a decision here as to whether or not we go all the way down and that would be three point 07:31.510 --> 07:33.140 twenty five in height. 07:33.250 --> 07:39.520 So we got prehaps some extra pieces to make we could fill that gap in exactly or even make a corner 07:39.530 --> 07:45.760 P So an L shaped corner piece and that might actually be more practical than just a thin sliver to sit 07:45.760 --> 07:49.410 inside the wall or even both to give us more options. 07:49.450 --> 07:55.090 But you can see the power of that straight away that we've mocked up a basic room in a matter of seconds 07:55.130 --> 07:56.200 from pieces. 07:56.200 --> 08:03.010 Now obviously this is a series of pieces all strapped together and it looks like a series of pieces 08:03.010 --> 08:05.750 all strapped together because we've not got much variety. 08:05.830 --> 08:11.770 But as soon as we get a bit more variety in there we can start playing now because all of these pieces 08:11.770 --> 08:15.520 before we duplicated them were underneath the empty. 08:15.520 --> 08:19.720 Imagine if they weren't going to have them move them all individuals point because they were underneath 08:19.720 --> 08:20.760 that empty. 08:20.830 --> 08:27.100 We've now got a nice clean hierarchy we've got this single room and then we can move the single room 08:27.100 --> 08:30.240 by just moving there empty that everything's parentage to. 08:30.490 --> 08:35.920 So it's very important just like setting the commit message before starting your project so you remain 08:35.920 --> 08:37.460 focussed on what you're doing. 08:37.750 --> 08:45.130 That we start doing the actual hierarchy is well before we start modelling and putting all the pieces 08:45.130 --> 08:46.020 together. 08:46.030 --> 08:51.400 Trust me if this was a much bigger room than this and those items if you were trying to nest them and 08:51.400 --> 08:58.040 parent them all to something it can take a real time to try and organise what's what and where it is. 08:58.060 --> 09:01.210 Of course all of these at the moment are just named. 09:01.360 --> 09:08.250 Well they're kind of named in appropriately because it's just the static mesh wall window detail whatever 09:08.260 --> 09:11.430 the sign says 0 1 it doesn't tell us where it is on the model. 09:11.560 --> 09:17.950 So another thing you can do if once you're happy with it naming them I think is probably best. 09:17.980 --> 09:22.960 Afterwards again everybody's got their different ways of doing it but until you've made it up you don't 09:22.960 --> 09:25.110 know the position of that so this one here. 09:25.150 --> 09:33.610 I could go in and rename it if this was an orientation I call call it south window or something along 09:33.610 --> 09:36.580 those lines so I know where it is. 09:36.610 --> 09:43.430 If this was a kitchen or the the altar room or whatever that you're working on you can even name it. 09:43.430 --> 09:49.150 You know self and then be more explicit kitchen window or in this case. 09:49.180 --> 09:56.530 I would probably put the room first so if it was a kitchen but kitchen so all of the kitchen stuff is 09:56.530 --> 10:03.940 grouped together kitchen south window etc. so it's entirely up to you how you do these namings because 10:03.970 --> 10:10.720 it does depend on the project you are working on as to whether one naming structure would be better 10:10.720 --> 10:14.490 than another and you will find that you may even change your mind halfway through. 10:14.530 --> 10:16.350 You have to grin and bear with it. 10:16.600 --> 10:23.070 Much like modelling itself if you make a mistake sometimes you just have to start over anyway. 10:23.170 --> 10:25.840 Now we've learnt about appending these things into the scene. 10:25.850 --> 10:28.670 I've of course got a challenge for you guys. 10:29.940 --> 10:32.930 I would like you to finish off the layouts. 10:33.050 --> 10:40.320 So go ahead and make a modular corner piece that we can use carry on a spending bill blocks into a new 10:40.320 --> 10:41.530 blend file. 10:41.910 --> 10:47.630 I suggest storing the blend file in a scene's directory in our working folder. 10:49.410 --> 10:51.820 Build a simple building. 10:51.870 --> 10:55.190 Don't go over the top at this point in time. 10:55.230 --> 10:56.700 Never thing to finish off the layout. 10:56.700 --> 11:00.480 Did you notice any other pieces missing that you actually need. 11:00.480 --> 11:05.790 Make sure you make a note of them so you know the size that you're making and putting together. 11:05.790 --> 11:12.540 Remember to save your blend file state your files and finally make the commit. 11:12.540 --> 11:14.060 Remember to share your building. 11:14.060 --> 11:17.280 In the discussions remember it's a prototype building at the moment. 11:17.280 --> 11:20.160 He doesn't have to be glorious in any way. 11:20.300 --> 11:22.780 Pause a video now and give that a go. 11:25.250 --> 11:25.850 Okay guys. 11:25.850 --> 11:26.800 Welcome back. 11:26.900 --> 11:30.090 Let's go finish off the lay out in blender. 11:31.710 --> 11:37.280 Okay so the first thing that I'm going to do here is just save my file because I haven't done that yet. 11:37.290 --> 11:38.350 And that's quite important. 11:38.350 --> 11:43.730 I'm going to save it into a scene's directory so we're going to save as just to make sure I'm not over 11:43.730 --> 11:45.040 writing anything. 11:45.210 --> 11:52.980 And hoping I am but it's worthwhile checking and I go to my game assets folder and this is the that's 11:52.980 --> 11:58.030 the folder on tracking and I need to create a new folder and you can do that in blender is the sick 11:58.080 --> 12:01.950 one two three four fifth icon along here fifth sixth. 12:01.950 --> 12:06.360 I can't count for there plus one sixth grader that one of the star on it. 12:06.530 --> 12:11.880 And I'm going to call this scenes and I'm going to open that up and I'm literally going to give it that 12:11.880 --> 12:13.750 name again using our bill blocks. 12:13.770 --> 12:14.910 Test Room. 12:16.890 --> 12:18.600 I'm going to save that file. 12:18.660 --> 12:25.500 Now I know that I need to just modify a couple of these pieces now because I have appended them into 12:25.500 --> 12:27.670 the scene and not linked them. 12:27.690 --> 12:34.790 That means that none of these will up date when I modify the original model where these have come from. 12:34.950 --> 12:36.950 We'll learn about linking in a bit. 12:37.050 --> 12:38.720 So that's a bit of a pain. 12:38.940 --> 12:41.370 All of these models I can't just change at once. 12:41.370 --> 12:48.960 Now they do all use the same mesh data which is useful so I can in theory edit all of them here. 12:49.100 --> 12:54.720 But that's that's going to be a bit too much at this point in time I'm imagining if this was much much 12:54.720 --> 13:00.840 bigger would certainly want to work and alter one thing and affect every one of those instances. 13:00.870 --> 13:02.730 So there's a couple of things that I need to make here. 13:02.730 --> 13:09.690 I've identified this corner strip here and I've identified this bottom strip along here as well. 13:09.810 --> 13:11.880 So there's a couple of places that I like. 13:11.910 --> 13:17.520 I need something in place basically to make sure that it's not horrible. 13:17.520 --> 13:24.510 Now the site the same one i'm using across the bottom here I can then use along the bottom here as well. 13:24.630 --> 13:26.220 So there's lots of things to do. 13:26.220 --> 13:29.820 I think a small to poor. 13:31.600 --> 13:35.630 Oh point two five cube will suffice for the moment for these corners. 13:35.640 --> 13:37.900 And then I can position them appropriately. 13:39.330 --> 13:44.580 Of course I'm not going to show you me modelling some extruded cubes except incense the. 13:44.700 --> 13:48.750 So I'll be back in a few moments and place these and finish off my scene. 13:50.250 --> 13:56.730 Okay guys so I've been off and I have created a series as you can see cubes here so I haven't named 13:56.730 --> 14:00.790 them appropriately and slap myself on the wrists for that one. 14:00.960 --> 14:07.210 But suffice to say I I've now got a sealed model without extra bits or grooves in it. 14:07.510 --> 14:11.550 Now one might say at this point perhaps that's a bit too much detail. 14:11.550 --> 14:13.950 I mean you may look at this now and go well where's the roof. 14:13.950 --> 14:16.550 Mike you spent all that time on the walls and the floor. 14:16.560 --> 14:17.660 Where's the roof. 14:21.310 --> 14:21.880 Well that's fine. 14:21.880 --> 14:27.060 We can go ahead and bring the floor up for instance and then do the same thing round the top. 14:27.060 --> 14:33.760 So be a flat bottom so it would be a flat roofed building there if we wanted to do that or we could 14:34.060 --> 14:41.440 make a roofline perhaps a sort of 45 degree one from the parts that we've already got. 14:41.470 --> 14:43.760 There's lots of things that we can work with here. 14:43.810 --> 14:51.160 Now one of the things that I didn't do before duplicating is place these underneath the empty itself. 14:51.340 --> 14:57.250 Now the pain here really comes in selecting them all and fortunately there aren't too many at the moment. 14:57.430 --> 15:03.820 So if I go ahead and holding down shift select them in the outline because that's a lot easier than 15:03.820 --> 15:09.970 trying to select them in the 3D viewport itself once I've done that I can use control and peel go to 15:10.060 --> 15:12.150 object and parents. 15:12.250 --> 15:16.870 There's nothing to parent it to at the moment we need to select the empty lasts as we've done in the 15:16.870 --> 15:20.040 past and that makes the MTV active objects. 15:20.080 --> 15:25.480 It's a lighter coloured orange and if we can find the empty in the scene which I am sure we can. 15:25.480 --> 15:26.200 There we go. 15:26.350 --> 15:28.260 We can see it's a light coloured orange. 15:28.300 --> 15:33.340 Incidentally as you can see there I did produce a cube that was a bit worthless in the end because I 15:33.340 --> 15:35.440 didn't use this small cube. 15:35.470 --> 15:38.050 But it's useful to just have it there. 15:38.060 --> 15:45.670 Another thing that I learnt whilst doing this is perhaps point to five it sounds like a nice number 15:45.670 --> 15:48.600 to have and it wasn't too difficult. 15:48.600 --> 15:54.610 Moving things about however when I'm holding down shift which reduces the increments to a tenth of a 15:54.610 --> 15:55.690 blender unit. 15:55.790 --> 16:03.610 It's been quite nice if the walls were perhaps 300 or 200 wide so that then I could have just positioned 16:03.610 --> 16:09.850 them very quickly rather than having to use the transforms to move them to the appropriate locations. 16:09.850 --> 16:18.070 Anyway I digress so once all of those have been selected and you have the active object set as the parents 16:18.070 --> 16:22.210 that you want them to have we can go object parent. 16:22.290 --> 16:26.190 And of course parent it to the object itself. 16:26.320 --> 16:27.220 And there they are. 16:27.220 --> 16:32.470 They've been moved so they're now all children of the room. 16:32.470 --> 16:38.910 And then if we select the room we can literally move everything about which is incredibly powerful. 16:38.920 --> 16:43.620 How did you guys get on what did you discover when you started putting things together. 16:43.630 --> 16:45.910 This is the essence of being lean. 16:45.910 --> 16:50.950 We've taken our basic building blocks that we've done we've put them together and realized that we've 16:50.950 --> 16:56.500 got some problems and we can go and correct those straight away before having spent hours and hours 16:56.500 --> 16:59.390 doing some really inch crit and detailed modelling. 16:59.530 --> 17:05.080 We found out these problems nice and early so we can go ahead and correct them and come up with ways 17:05.080 --> 17:08.370 to prevent it happening in future. 17:08.560 --> 17:15.160 So the final thing here of course to just finish off is make sure that my blend file is saved and then 17:15.160 --> 17:17.340 going to source tree here. 17:17.380 --> 17:24.040 There we go we can see that we have our work there and the blend file that we've created and the folder 17:24.040 --> 17:29.470 that's associated with it and I make sure that they are staged and click kemet. 17:29.680 --> 17:30.430 Brilliant. 17:30.430 --> 17:31.930 How did you guys get on. 17:31.930 --> 17:33.730 I'd love to see your room designs. 17:33.730 --> 17:38.170 What else did you discover when doing this rapid prototyping. 17:38.170 --> 17:43.450 So we've taken our assets we've moved them into a scene to make sure they're working we found some problems 17:43.450 --> 17:48.910 with them so we haven't wasted lots of time and then we've we can get back we can fix things and then 17:48.910 --> 17:54.520 reimport them and make sure they're working and we'll find out a faster way of doing that shortly. 17:54.520 --> 17:59.590 Please share your work in the discussions and I will see you guys in the next lecture.