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Blender 1.5 manual contents

    Part 1
    I never read a Manual!

    For those who browse.

  • Installation
    Installation for SGI users
    Installation for Linux or FreeBSD i386 systems

  • The object oriented system
    The main data blocks
    Data structure example
    Screens and Windows

  • Basic editing
    The Mouse
    The Keyboard
    Selecting
    Active
    Moving / rotating / scaling
    Objects and EditMode
    Materials and Textures
    Keys and Animation Curves
    Saving and loading files

    Part 2
    Do it yourself

  • Getting started with 3D
    Blender startup
    3D view manipulation
    View presets
    View modes
    Layers
    Adding Objects
    Material properties
    Mesh editing
    Save and Load

  • Coffee cup tutorial

  • Flying logo tutorial

  • More tutorials!

    Part 3
    Blender

  • The Data Structure
    "What You See Is What You Want", "What You Do is What You Get"!
    The DataBlocks
    Objects and ObData
    Objects, ObData and Materials
    Creating links with HotKeys
    Users
    Blender File format
    And where is the Undo buffer?
    The Libraries

  • The Interface
    Screens
    Windows
    The Buttons

  • The Menus
    Toolbox
    PupMenus
    Number menus

    Part 4
    Working with Objects

  • Objects
    The Object block
    Selecting and activating
    Grab, Rotate, Size
    EditMode
    Hierarchies
    ToolBox

  • The Mesh
    The Mesh block
    EditMode
    Extrude
    Spin
    Assigning Materials
    Other Tools

  • Curve and Surface
    The Curve block
    Beziers
    Nurbs
    Poly
    Modeling with curves
    Beveling
    The Surface block
    Modeling with Surfaces
    Assigning Materials

  • Font
    The Font block
    Entering text

  • MetaBall
    The MetaBall block
    Modeling with MetaBalls

  • Camera

  • Lattice
    The Lattice block
    Modeling with Lattices

  • Ika and Skeletons
    The Ika block
    Working with Ika's
    Skeletons

    Part 5
    Animation with Objects

  • Object Ipos
    Keys and Curves
    Ipo block
    Making Ipos in the 3DWindow
    The IpoWindow
    Beziers
    IpoCurves
    Draw IpoCurves
    Rotations and Scaling
    IpoKeys
  • Vertex keys
    The Key block
    Mesh Vertex Keys
    The IpoCurve and VertexKey lines
    Tips
    Curve and Surface Keys
    Lattice Keys

  • Special animation techniques
    Motion paths
    Object Tracking
    Duplicators
    Ika and Skeletons
    Particles
    Part 6
    Materials, Light: Render!

  • Materials and Textures
    Rendering
    Shading
    Materials
    The 'mapping'
    Textures
    Animated Materials

  • Lamps and shadow
    Lamp types
    Shadow buffers
    Selective lighting
    Lamp Textures
    Lighting tips

  • Rendering and Post-production
    Video work
    The render engine
    Within a pixel
    Alpha
    Memory
    Graphics file formats
    Sequence editor

    Part 7
    Special techniques
  • VertexPaint

  • Rotoscoping

  • Cartoon animation and 3D

  • Import Inventor/VRML files

  • Videoscape files

    Part 8
    Reference: the Windows and hotkeys

  • Blender windows - general introduction
    The Mouse
    Window hotkeys
    Universal hotkeys

  • The InfoWindow
    InfoHeader
    UserMenu

  • The FileWindow
    FileHeader
    FileWindow
    FileSelect
    Read Libraries
    FileManager
    DataView and DataBrowse

  • The 3DWindow
    3DHeader
    3DWindow
    The Mouse
    NumPad
    Hotkeys
    EditMode Hotkeys - General
    EditMode Mesh Hotkeys
    EditMode Curve Hotkeys
    EditMode Font Hotkeys
    EditMode Surface Hotkeys
    Ika Hotkeys
    Vertexpaint Hotkeys

  • The ButtonsWindow
    ButtonsHeader
    ButtonsWindow

  • The IpoWindow
    IpoHeader
    IpoWindow
    The Mouse
    The Hotkeys

  • The SequenceWindow
    SequenceHeader
    SequenceWindow
    The Mouse
    The Hotkeys

  • The OopsWindow
    OopsHeader
    OopsWindow
    The Mouse
    The Hotkeys

  • The ImageWindow
    ImageHeader
    ImageWindow

  • The ImageSelectWindow
    ImageSelectHeader
    ImageSelectWIndow
    The mouse and Hotkeys

  • The Animation playback window

    Part 9
    Reference: the Buttons

  • The ViewButtons

  • The LampButtons

  • The MaterialButtons

  • The MaterialButtons, Halos

  • The TextureButtons
    The standard TextureButtons
    Colorband
    Image texture
    Plug-in texture
    Clouds texture
    Wood texture
    Marble texture
    Blend texture
    Stucci texture
    Noise texture

  • The WorldButtons

  • The AnimButtons
    Anim Effects: Build
    Anim Effects: Particles

  • The EditButtons
    EditButtons, general
    EditButtons, Mesh
    EditButtons, Curve en Surface
    EditButtons, Font
    EditButtons, MetaBall
    EditButtons, Lattice
    EditButtons, Ika
    EditButtons, Camera

  • The VertexPaintButtons

  • The DisplayButtons

    Part 10
    Appendices

  • Feature listing

  • Command line options

  • Glossary of Blender terms

  • Index