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    • thomthomT Offline
      thomthom
      last edited by

      @whaat said:

      Oh, and to select a face in edit mode, look for a series of buttons at the bottom of the window to switch between vertex, edge, and face select mode

      Ah hah! ahahaha!
      Ok - so where's the inference? Or rather, how can I extrude to a given vector, like perpendicular to the face I have selected?

      Also, is it correct that selecting is done by right clicking?
      When I select faces it often selects faces behind the front one...

      Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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      • EarthMoverE Offline
        EarthMover
        last edited by

        Thomthom, try selecting four verticies of a box and hit the "E" key and choose extrude region. Also use "S" key for scale. Make an obscure rectangular shape by extruding & scaling multiple times, then while still in edit mode, assign a "subsurf" modifier to the mesh and take the levels up to 4 or 5. This is similar to SDS for su. Continue to modify the subsurf and affect the subdivided geometry. Notice the speed.

        Also, to select, use the RMB. To add to selection, use Shift+RMB. To quad face loop select, ALT+RMB

        "A" to deselect all.

        That's about all I remember from the 5 hours of tutorials I watched a few weeks ago.

        3D Artist at Clearstory 3D Imaging
        Guide Tool at Winning With Sketchup
        Content Creator at Skapeup

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        • R Offline
          remus
          last edited by

          Thom, couple of tips to help when selecting faces: theres a little dot in the middle of each face, if you click near that its much more likely to select the face your going for. you can also occlude geometry (the SU equivalent of turning off transparency) by clicking the little button one along from the vertex/edge/face select buttons.

          http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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          • thomthomT Offline
            thomthom
            last edited by

            @earthmover said:

            Thomthom, try selecting four verticies of a box and hit the "E" key and choose extrude region. Also use "S" key for scale.

            @remus said:

            Thom, couple of tips to help when selecting faces: theres a little dot in the middle of each face, if you click near that its much more likely to select the face your going for.

            Aaah! Hey - I can build stuff! Thanks guys..

            Can't seem to find the Undo though. Not does Ctrl+Z work...

            Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
            List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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            • EarthMoverE Offline
              EarthMover
              last edited by

              Michalis posted a link to some really good Blender tutorials in one of his early threads. The tutorials included the modeling of a frog. Anyone have a link? I can't seem to find the thread.

              3D Artist at Clearstory 3D Imaging
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              Content Creator at Skapeup

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              • R Offline
                remus
                last edited by

                ctrl+z works for me...i wonder if it depends on whether your in edit mode or not?

                http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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                • EarthMoverE Offline
                  EarthMover
                  last edited by

                  Undo might be broken in the 2.5 release. Ctrl Z works in 2.49. I use the portable version and it works great.

                  Also another good tip is the "K" key. Use it to knife or loop cut. Since there is no "pencil" tool in quad modeling programs, use the loop cut to divide a face in the appropriate sections and create windows and such. Boolean modifier also works well. Loop cut is also good to add some "weight" to an edge that will be subdivided.

                  Personally I'd rather use sketchup for architectural stuff any day of the week. Nothing beats the tape measure / line tool combo. For organic shapes, Blender is the best of the "FREE" apps.

                  Remus, how do you "box" select in Blender? (drag a selection window?)

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                  • pilouP Offline
                    pilou
                    last edited by

                    Some videos tutorial πŸ˜‰ (for 2.5 and 2.49)

                    Frenchy Pilou
                    Is beautiful that please without concept!
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                    • EarthMoverE Offline
                      EarthMover
                      last edited by

                      THanks for the tutorial link Remus. Wow, 2.5 looks a lot like Modo.

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                      • EscapeArtistE Offline
                        EscapeArtist
                        last edited by

                        I was just going to start complaining that I'd started to figure out where everything was in the old Blender when I saw the new GUI open up. I looked around and started to find things much more easily (the old GUI was a PITA to figure out, I've been playing with Blender since 1.somethingorother and still haven't got it all right) and was turning that cube into the Venus de Milo in no time flat.

                        No, not really. But I do think the new layout is much better.

                        All these improvements and it makes me think that they're going to start charging for this stuff soon.

                        EDIT: OK, now I'm getting frustrated - where's my space-bar menu? My right/left click menu? My verticies/faces/edges selection? They moved them!

                        EDIT x 2: Figured it out. I'm loving this new setup! They got rid of the annoying movement selection, and now it extrudes on axis automatically! Fantastic!

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                        • EarthMoverE Offline
                          EarthMover
                          last edited by

                          Found the tutorials I was referring to. Not specific for 2.5, but a really good run down about blender functionality. - http://www.gryllus.net/Blender/3D.html

                          Also found the box select option - "B" key - duh! Also tap B key twice to bring up circle select. Scroll wheel to change the size of the selection circle.

                          3D Artist at Clearstory 3D Imaging
                          Guide Tool at Winning With Sketchup
                          Content Creator at Skapeup

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                          • EscapeArtistE Offline
                            EscapeArtist
                            last edited by

                            I gotta ask, where'd the plugins go? I threw some scripts in the usual place, but I can't find anything in the menus that will run a plugin.

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                              11zulu
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                              Hiya

                              Good video walkthrus are available here:

                              Link Preview Image
                              2.50 Alpha 0 Tools Menu

                              Join my Blender 3D forum, where you can network with other Blender friends and get your Blender 3D questions answered. November 24, 2009 mar...

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                              (blender3dvideos.blogspot.com)

                              and here is a series of walkthrus:

                              Link Preview Image
                              Blender 3D Videos

                              This blog contains the scripts for my Blender 3D YouTube videos. They're published as follows:

                              Buy The Blender 3D Cookbook as a book!

                              Buy the Blender 3D Cookbook for your iPad!

                              Buy the Blender 3D Cookbook for your Kindle!

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                              (blender3dvideos.blogspot.com)

                              At the following is is a whole bunch of other walkthrus:

                              Blender Labrat

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                              (blenderlabrat.blogspot.com)

                              The link below also has a simple walkthru as well:

                              http://www.totallyblended.com/

                              And on Vimeo, one for Maya users:

                              301 Moved Permanently

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                              (www.vimeo.com)

                              Laters

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                              • R Offline
                                remus
                                last edited by

                                Cheers 11zulu, always handy to have a good stack to go through when i've got a bit of spare time πŸ‘

                                http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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