Archive for Modeling
Currently blending…(wood textures)
Posted by: | CommentsI spent a lot of time between Gimp and Cgtextures today trying to find/edit a good match for the wood textures in my interior reference (floor and back wall). I started out with the idea of recreating that scene as closely as I can but I don’t want necessarily to get it “exactly so” and then have people guess which is the photo and which is the my render. However I spent the morning trapped with trying to get those wooden textures exactly. After several attempts I managed this:
Empty post
Posted by: | CommentsFor today just a Blender word of wisdom: if everything else fails, try using an “empty”!
You can make a camera target from it, adjust mapping coordinates, mirror and array and probably everything else that has eluded you in Blender 🙂
Happy blending!
Not a chair modeling tutorial
Posted by: | CommentsThis is not a tutorial as you might hope, as I barely have time to sit at my computer these days. So what do I do? Throw in a few screenshots with quick explanations and call it “not a tutorial” 🙂 Maybe I can develop a whole new concept this way!
Right now I have almost zero good blender format furniture items to use in future great blender architectural interior design scenes so I decided to get started on building a collection. I am very happy with the release of Blender 2.35 Beta. As a mom you can understand I have a natural need for stability and security, so beta sounds so much better than alpha. Overall I am very happy with the new face of Blender and will continue to put my faith in it. Unfortunately I had started this blog with lots of Blender 2.49 materials that I should now rewrite for 2.5 and I just have no time. I’m still figuring it out.
So here is how my finished chair model looks:
Imperial units in Blender 2.5
Posted by: | CommentsI had a discussion going on a previous post about the lack of imperial units input in Blender 2.49. Thanks to Roofoo for bringing up the point and Toweyed for suggesting a workaround.
I’m sorry to say I had no idea and it took me a whole week to discover this has been addressed in Blender 2.5 and you will be able to enter feet inches and the small bothersome fractions as soon as the new Blender is out!
Units selection in Blender 2.5
Handling geometry and basic modelling in Blender 2.49
Posted by: | CommentsI have presented in a previous post the Blender interface. Now it’s time to do some Blender stuff. This is intended as a Blender beginner post so I will try to keep it simple yet cover several useful tools. I’ll remind you the online official user manual is also a good place to find basic information.
I will use a small simple object to demonstrate and as my primary interest is architectural modelling… how about a little house? 🙂
Little House
This is a post about modelling so right now we’ll settle for this dull grey (some architects might say sophisticated) render. We are not modelling something too fancy, it’s just a pretext to pass through some basic notions.
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