Blender For Dummies, 3rd Edition

Index

• Numerics •

3D cursor, 59–61, 95

3D manipulator, 38, 71–75

3D View editor

3D cursor, 60–61

defined, 29

loading reference images as background, 115

navigating in, 51–56

Quad View, 62

regions of, 47, 62–64

selecting objects in, 59

spot-checks from different angles, 468

standard lighting, 47

user preferences for, 29, 37–38

viewport shading, 57–58

• A •

absolute path, 45

actions

creating, 371

defined, 30, 371

fake users, 372

mixing to create complex animation, 373–374

active object, 70

Add Shader, 206, 407

add-ons

defined, 41, 469

Dynamic Spacebar Menu add-on, 92

enabling/disabling, 42, 469

exporters, 412

Extra Objects add-on, 94

support levels for, 42

user preferences for, 42

Adobe Illustrator, 164

Adobe Photoshop, 247–248, 250, 417, 429, 434, 448

Adobe Premiere, 423

aliasing, 470

alpha channel, 217–218, 417, 430–432

Alpha Over node, 448

Amaranth theme, 43

ambient occlusion (AO), 253–254, 439, 471

Ambient Occlusion shader, 208

animation

armatures

basic process, 362–364

copying mirrored poses, 367–368

ghosting, 369

quaternions, 366–367

visualizing motion with paths, 369–370

basic process for, 302

cloth simulation, 393–395

constraints

adjusting influence, 326–327

copying movement of another object, 327–329

defined, 323

Empties, 324–326

limiting movement of objects, 330–331

selection order, 324

tracking motion of another object, 332–333

turnaround renders, 325–326

vertex groups and, 327

viewing available, 324

Dope Sheet editor, 359–362

easing, 316

editing motion curves, 315–