Blender Documentation

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Table of Contents

I. Introduction to Blender

Introduction

About this manual (x)

What is Blender?

Blender's History

About Free Software and the GPL

Getting support - the Blender community

Installation (x)

Downloading and installing the binary distribution

Building Blender from the sources (x)

Understanding the interface

Blender's interface concept

Navigating in 3D space

The vital functions

Your first animation in 30 minutes

Warming up

Building the body

Let's see what he looks like

Materials and Textures

Rigging

Skinning

Posing

He walks!

II. Modelling, Materials and Lights

ObjectMode

Selecting objects

Moving (translating) objects

Rotating objects

Scaling/mirroring objects

The number dialog

Duplicate

Parenting (Grouping)

Tracking

Other Actions

Boolean operations

Mesh Modelling

Basic objects

EditMode

Smoothing

Proportional Editing Tool

Extrude

Spin and SpinDup

Screw

Noise

Warp Tool

Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces

MetaBall

Resources

Curves and Surfaces

Curves

Surfaces

Text

Extrude Along Path

Skinning

Resources

Materials and textures

Diffusion

Specular Reflection

Materials in practice

Textures (-)

Texture plugins (-)

Environment Maps

UV editor and FaceSelect

Lighting

Introduction

Lamp Types

Shadows

Volumetric Light

Tweaking Light

The World and The Universe

The World Background

Mist

Stars

Ambient Light

III. Animation

Animation of Undeformed Objects

IPO Block

Key Frames

The IPO Curves

IPO Curves and IPO Keys

Other applications of IPO Curves

Path Animation

The Time Ipo

Animation of Deformations

Absolute Vertex Keys

Relative VertexKeys

Lattice Animation (x)

Character Animation (x)

General Tools

Armature Object

Skinning

Weight Painting

Posemode

Action Window

Action Actuator

Python

NLAWindow (Non Linear Animation)

Constraints

Constraint Types

Rigging a Hand and a Foot

Rigging Mechanics

How to setup a walkcycle using NLA

IV. Rendering

Rendering

Rendering by Parts

Panoramic renderings

Antialiasing

Output formats

Rendering Animations

Motion Blur

Depth of Field

Cartoon Edges

The Unified Renderer

Preparing your work for video (x)

Radiosity (x)

The Blender Radiosity method

The Interface

Radiosity Quickstart

Radiosity Step by Step

Radiosity Juicy example

V. Advanced Tools

Effects

Introduction

Build Effect

Particle Effects

Wave Effect

Special modelling techniques

Introduction

Dupliverts

Dupliframes

Modelling with lattices

Resources

Volumetric Effects

Sequence Editor

Learning the Sequence Editor

Sequence Editor Plugins (-)

VI. Extending Blender

Python Scripting

A working Python example

API Reference

TBW

VII. Beyond Blender

TBW

VIII. Interactive 3d

Interactive 3d

Introduction (-)

Designing for interactive environments (-)

Physics (-)

Logic Editing (-)

Sensors (-)

Controllers (-)

Actuators (-)

Exporting to standalone applications (-)

Usage of Blender 3D Plug-in

Introduction

Functionality

3D Plug-in installation

Creating content for the plug-ins

Embedding the ActiveX control in other applications

Blender 3D Plug-in FAQs

Python Scripting for interactive environments (-)

(game engine specific Python subjects)

IX. Reference

Blender windows - general introduction

The Mouse

HotKeys In-depth Reference

Window HotKeys

Universal HotKeys

EditMode HotKeys - General

EditMode Mesh Hotkeys

EditMode Curve Hotkeys

EditMode Font Hotkeys

EditMode Surface Hotkeys

Armature Hotkeys

VertexPaint Hotkeys

FaceSelect Hotkeys

Windows Reference

The InfoWindow

The FileWindow

The 3DWindow

The IpoWindow

The SequenceWindow

The OopsWindow

The Action Window

The Non Linear Animation Window

The Text Window

The SoundWindow

The ImageWindow

The ImageSelectWindow

The Animation playback window

Buttons Reference

The ButtonsWindow

The ViewButtons

LampButtons

Material Buttons

The TextureButtons

The standard TextureButtons

The AnimButtons

Realtime Buttons

EditButtons

Constraint Buttons

Sound Buttons

The WorldButtons

Paint/Face Buttons

Introduction to radiosity

ScriptButtons

The RenderingButtons

X. Appendices

Hotkeys Quick Reference Table

Symbols

TAB

NUMPAD

NUMBERS

Comma and Period

Arrow Keys

Arrow Keys - Grab/Rotate/Scale behaviour

Mouse

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

Python Reference

Command Line Arguments

Render Options

Animation Options:

Window Options

Other Options

Supported videocards

Documentation changelog

Blender changelog

2.28a

2.28

2.27

2.26

Troubleshooting (-)

About the Blender Documentation Project

About the Blender Documentation Project (-)

Contributors (-)

How to submit your changes

Getting your system ready for DocBook/XML (-)

Learning DocBook/XML

The Blender Documentation Project styleguide

Documentation Style in Practice

The Documentation Licenses

Open Content License

Blender Artistic License

GNU General Public License

Glossary

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