Blender Shading

ART 3791

Basic Model Shading

Multiple Materials in a single Object

Add mesh cube
rotate until you can see 3 faces

Create 4 materials - gray red green blue

Shading panel (F5) / Links and Pipline / Add New material / name "Gray"

Do this three more times for / red /green / blue
For each select the color tab next to Col (material) and pick a color

Create 4 material indices

Editing (F9) / Links and Materials / (right side of the dialog box)New (three times since the default is one material index per object)

The button with "4 Mat 1" this means there are 4 material indices and number 1 is selected.

Select only one face of the cube.

Click the arrows until it says "4 mat 1" then click "Assign"

You have assigned material indicies 1 as the default color to the active face, and by default to the rest of the cube.

Assign a new indicies to the current face.

Select the Right Arrow so the bar says "4 mat 2" ( 4 materials, 2nd indicies)

Shading panel (F5) / Links and Pipline / select the up/down arrow for material choices and pic "red"

Back to Editing (F9), repeat the process for material indicices 3 and 4

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Practice this along with adding shaders in the robot tutorial. (see homework)

Complete robot shading in blender from blenderart issue 1

Modeling

Reading Assignments

Complete skinning tutorial from the reading material above. Attach lastname_hull.blend

and email to lazor@acm.org.

Various character scetches with 3 views or more, a good place to start for building a 3D object.