The basics of Blender 2.93: A noob-friendly guide to creating your first 3D renders. by Heriot Joshua

Author:Heriot, Joshua [Heriot, Joshua]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2021-10-29T00:00:00+00:00

Switch the selection mode to Face select, and select the top face of our cube. Keep in mind that we can rotate around the scene with the middle mouse button, and holding Shift at the same time will allow us to pan. To zoom, simply scroll your mouse wheel.

This time, we’ll use a new method of making the cube taller. Extrusions keep the original vertices at their respective positions and add new vertices at a new position. With the top face selected, press E to extrude. You can extrude along the Z-axis by pressing Z, just like before. Let’s extrude this by .5 by typing “.5” during the transformation. Click once to commit the change, and we’re going to keep doing this until we have about 5 segments as pictured.

We now have a rectangle with 5 segments. To make the pillar more interesting, we can scale the inner segments to create visual interest. To do this, we’re going to switch to Edge select in the selection modes. ALT-click the bottom-most middle segment and the edge loop should appear orange so we know we have it selected. Now we’re going to press S to scale just the edge loop. You can now do this to the remaining segments to customize your pillar.

A quick way to add a new segment is by creating an edge loop. Press CTRL+R to activate the loop cut tool, and you’ll notice a yellow outline around the middle of the segment. Scroll up or down to adjust the number of cuts you’d like to make, and carry on scaling the different segments.

Click the left mouse button to commit the edge loop, and you’ll now be able to move the loops up or down if desired by moving the mouse up or down. Edge loops are used to create more geometry and allow for greater modeling flexibility. If we’d like to remove a loop cut we placed by accident, we can simply ALT-click the loop we want to delete, press X to bring up the delete menu, and then choose Edge Loops at the bottom.

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