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[edit] Introduction

Introduction

Installing Blender

The Interface: Interface Concepts; Keyboard and Mouse; Window System; Window Types; Screens (Workspace Layouts); Scenes; Configuration; Contexts; Menus; Panels; Buttons and Controls

Your First Animation: 1/2: A static Gingerbread Man; 2/2: Animating the Gingerbread Man

The Vital Functions: File operations; Quick render; Screenshots; Default scene; User Preferences; Undo and Redo; Help!

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[edit] Interaction in 3D

Introduction

Navigation in 3D Space: Introduction; Using the 3D View; 3D View Options; Camera View; Layers; Local or Global View

Sketch in 3D Space: Grease Pencil

Manipulation in 3D Space: Introduction; Hotkeys; Manipulators; Manual/Gestures; Axis Locking; Pivot Points; Proportional Edit; Transform Orientations; Transform Properties

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[edit] Data System

Blender's Library and Data System

Scenes

Working with Scenes

The Outliner Window

Appending and Linking

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[edit] Modelling

Introduction

Objects

Objects

Selecting in Object Mode

Meshes: Meshes; Mesh Structures; Mesh Primitives; Mesh Smoothing; Selecting Meshes; Basic Mesh Tools; Advanced Mesh Tools; Edge and Face Tools; Snap to Mesh; Vertex Groups; Weight Paint; Subdivision Surfaces; Multi Resolution Mesh; SculptMode; Retopo

Curves: Curves; Editing Curves; Curves Deform; Curves Taper

Surfaces: Surfaces; Editing Surfaces; Surfaces Skinning

Text: Editing Text

Meta Objects: Meta Objects; Editing Meta Objects

Scripts: Modelling Scripts

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[edit] Modifiers and Deformation

Introduction

Modifiers Stack

Deform: Armature; Cast; Curve; Lattice; Mesh Deform; Wave

Objects: Array; Particle Instance

Animation: Build

Mesh: Bevel; Booleans; Decimate; Displace; EdgeSplit; Explode; Hooks; Mask; Mirror; Smooth; Subsurf

Textures: UVProject

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[edit] Lighting

Introduction

Lights: Introduction; Light Properties; Light Attenuation; Light Textures; What Light Affects; Lights In Other Contexts

Shadows: Introduction; Shadow Properties; Raytraced Shadow Properties

Volumetric Lights: Introduction

Lamps

Radiosity

Scene Light: Ambient Light; Ambient Occlusion; Exposure

Introduction to Shading

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[edit] Materials

Introduction

Usage: Assigning a material; Material Preview; Material Options; Multiple Materials

Properties: Diffuse Shaders; Specular Shaders; Ambient Light Effect; Color Ramps; Raytraced Reflections; Raytraced Transparency; Subsurface Scattering (SSS); Strands

Node Materials: Node Materials; Material Nodes Editor; Nodes usage; Material Node Types

Vertex Paint: Using Vertex Paint

Halos: Halos

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[edit] Textures

Introduction

Options: Texture Options; Texture Channels; Map Input; Map To

Texture maps: Bump and Normal Maps; Displacement Maps

Texture Types: Procedural Textures; Image Textures; Video Textures; Environment Maps; Texture nodes; Texture Plugins

UV Textures

UV Unwrapping Explained

Unwrapping a Mesh

Managing the UV Layout

Editing the UV Layout

[edit] World and Ambient Effects

[edit] Animation Basics

Introduction

Tools: Ipo Types; Creating Ipo Keyframes; Editing Ipo Curves and Keyframes; The Timeline

Animating Objects: Moving objects on a Path; Changing Object Layers

Animating Deformation: Methods of deformation; Shape Keys; Absolute Shape Keys; Deforming by a Lattice

Other Resources: Reference: Editing Ipos; Hook Modifier to animate mesh deformation

BSoD Tutorial: Constraints and Axis Locks

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[edit] Armatures and Character Animation

Introduction

Armatures: Armature Objects; Editing Armatures; Posing Armatures; Inverse Kinematics

Mesh Skin Weighting: Mesh Skin Weighting

Animation Editors: The Action Editor; Non Linear Animation

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[edit] Constraints

Introduction: Introduction; Constraint Stack

Objects Constraints: Child Of; Copy Location; Copy Rotation; Copy Scale; Limit Location; Limit Rotation; Limit Scale; Floor; Track To; Locked Track; Follow Path; Clamp To; Stretch To; Transformation

Special Constraints: Rigid Body Joint; IK Solver; Action; Script; Null

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[edit] Advanced Animation

Driven Shape Keys (Ipo Drivers)

Ipo Drivers Example

Python Ipo Drivers

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[edit] Effects and Physical Simulation

Introduction

Particles: Particles; Types; Physics; Visualization; Controlling Emission, Interaction and Time; Children; Particle Mode; Hair

Soft Body: Introduction; Exterior forces; Interior forces; Collisions; Simple Examples; Combination with armatures; Combination with hair particles; Reference

[edit] Rendering

Introduction

The Render Window

Options: Render Options; Oversampling (Antialiasing); Render engines: YafRay; Render Bake; Rendering From the Command Line

Output: Output Options; Output Formats; Rendering Animations; Video output

Compositing: Render Layers; Render Passes

Camera: Perspective (Vanishing points); Depth Of Field

Other: Rendering Performances

Post-production

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[edit] Compositing with nodes

Compositing Nodes: Introduction; Nodes Editor; Using Nodes

Node types: Node types; Input Nodes; Output Nodes; Color Nodes; Vector Nodes; Filter Nodes; Convertor Nodes; Matte Nodes; Distortion Nodes; Groups nodes

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[edit] Editing Sequences

Introduction

The sequencer: Sequencer window modes; Sequence Screen Layout; Usage

Effects: Built-in Effects; Plugin Effects

Audio: Audio Sequences

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[edit] Game Engine

Introduction: Index (to be reviewed); List of Features

Usage

Logic bricks - Actuators: 2D Filters

Physics: Physics Engine

Python API: Bullet physics; VideoTexture; Blender2.49 Game Engine Python API; Blender2.48 Game Engine Python API

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[edit] Extending Blender

Introduction

Python Scripting: Python Scripting in Blender

Blender Python API: Blender2.48 Python API

Python Scripts: Bundled Scripts; Catalog of all Scripts

Plugins: Blender's Plugins System

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[edit] Introduction

[edit] Interaction in 3D

[edit] Data System

[edit] Modelling

[edit] Modifiers and Deformation

[edit] Lighting

[edit] Materials

[edit] Textures

[edit] World and Ambient Effects

[edit] Animation Basics

[edit] Armatures and Character Animation

[edit] Constraints

[edit] Advanced Animation

[edit] Effects and Physical Simulation

[edit] Rendering

[edit] Compositing with nodes

[edit] Editing Sequences

[edit] Game Engine

[edit] Extending Blender

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